Which is true, classic case of Chinese whispers - massive punch up by two men, a couple of threats and people pile out of station, couple of people say XY and Z have happened, this spreads through the crowd prompting lots of 999 calls, therefore Op Plato is activated (causing the police response, messages of Run, Hide, Tell etc)
Just means the media begin talking about it as if the worst has happened...
Which is true, classic case of Chinese whispers - massive punch up by two men, a couple of threats and people pile out of station, couple of people say XY and Z have happened, this spreads through the crowd prompting lots of 999 calls, therefore Op Plato is activated (causing the police response, messages of Run, Hide, Tell etc)
Just means the media begin talking about it as if the worst has happened...
And of course those individuals and organisations that wish to disrupt our normal way of life, effectively acheived fear and panic yesterday without lifting a finger
Which is true, classic case of Chinese whispers - massive punch up by two men, a couple of threats and people pile out of station, couple of people say XY and Z have happened, this spreads through the crowd prompting lots of 999 calls, therefore Op Plato is activated (causing the police response, messages of Run, Hide, Tell etc)
Just means the media begin talking about it as if the worst has happened...
And of course those individuals and organisations that wish to disrupt our normal way of life, effectively acheived fear and panic yesterday without lifting a finger
Exactly, in part perpetuated by the media and their quick broadcast of 'news' which at the time was twitter rumour and speculation. Easiest form of attack really and not orchestrated by the terrorist groups out there.
The 'problem' here was that the 'Twitter Rumour' was coming from very reputable sources, Journalists. Indeed one of the first was the PolEd of Buzzfeed, Jim Waterson. These sources can't be ignored by others in the business
The 'problem' here was that the 'Twitter Rumour' was coming from very reputable sources, Journalists. Indeed one of the first was the PolEd of Buzzfeed, Jim Waterson. These sources can't be ignored by others in the business
Well, for goodness sake, the first line gives a clue as to how the rest of the tweet should be
treated.
Jim Waterson's tweet seems reasonable enough, it's a factual account of what was happenning. The facts he tweeted fit with the narrative from the police and others after the event.
I don't think you can class that in the same category as the more speculative/sensationalist tweets that may have caused the panic.
Being the nearest tube station to the worlds biggest newsroom can't have helped much either
In one of John Simpson's books, he talks about his first few weeks at the BBC in 1966 working in the BH newsroom.
There was a fire in the Langham Hotel opposite BH. His editor didn't allow any reporting of the event, until two other news-agencies had also reported it !
I am currently abroad, and happened to have BBC World on at the time.
We went from a report about the actual deaths in Egypt, to 45 minutes of speculation about this Oxford Circus evacuation.
While I understand that it should be mentioned, until there are any facts established, why did it need 45 minutes uninterrupted coverage on there?
I found it very odd indeed.
I am currently abroad, and happened to have BBC World on at the time.
We went from a report about the actual deaths in Egypt, to 45 minutes of speculation about this Oxford Circus evacuation.
While I understand that it should be mentioned, until there are any facts established, why did it need 45 minutes uninterrupted coverage on there?
I found it very odd indeed.
We were in Vancouver the day there was that car crash outside the Natural History Museum. It was breakfast time for us, and the pointless helicopter TV coverage of perfectly free flowing Vancouver roads, was suddenly replaced with breaking news of, quote 'another terror attack in London'.
It's the thing about the news channels don't want to miss anything, so have to stay on the breaking story regardless of how scant the information is, and indeed extrapolate every sentence spoken by an eyewitness into a bigger story.
So yesterday we had Jane Hill talking over some static shots of Oxford Street for about half an hour, and then after that some moving shots of the Christmas decorations behind the police cordon.