Armed Insurrection at US Capitol Building

We might not but they would. And considering how long it's took them to count the things in the first place you wouldn't want to be losing them.

I think the fact though we are still discussing how newsworthy this story was a few days on means the call to air not even a newsflash on BBC1 and ITV during primetime on Wednesday was wrong. Some people clearly disagree with the view it warranted two hours of live primetime coverage which is fine, but I think news needs to be above the narrowminded view that if it doesn't directly affect Brits it isn't newsworthy - and sometimes people literally need these stories put in front of them.

Beslan for example is a story which I think in theory many of us would agree wouldn't warrant live news coverage, but for those of us who watched it unfold that day it's arguably one of the most memorable pieces of television of the mid-noughties.

We might not but they would. And considering how long it's took them to count the things in the first place you wouldn't want to be losing them.

I think the fact though we are still discussing how newsworthy this story was a few days on means the call to air not even a newsflash on BBC1 and ITV during primetime on Wednesday was wrong. Some people clearly disagree with the view it warranted two hours of live primetime coverage which is fine, but I think news needs to be above the narrowminded view that if it doesn't directly affect Brits it isn't newsworthy - and sometimes people literally need these stories put in front of them.

Beslan for example is a story which I think in theory many of us would agree wouldn't warrant live news coverage, but for those of us who watched it unfold that day it's arguably one of the most memorable pieces of television of the mid-noughties.

With regards to the coverage. In the past few days CNN and MSNBC has achieved their largest viewership in their history. Whilst FNC who fueled the madness also saw increases, but Im sure their elderly audiences were probably turned off by treasonous actions of the people that they were seeing on television. The first few minutes of last nights Rachel Maddow programme was quite interesting in explaining why there was an "asymmetrical response" by law enforcement. I think we all know that the response would have been significantly different....lets just say under different circumstances. I hazard a guess to say there would have been for more dead people or at least more injured or people under arrest at this moment.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-3Qodd_oCw
https://www.adweek.com/tvnewser/wednesday-jan-6-scoreboard-cnn-ranks-no-1-on-cable-news-msnbc-averages-its-largest-total-day-audience-ever/467392/

https://www.adweek.com/tvnewser/cnn-has-most-watched-day-ever-with-capitol-insurrection-coverage/467372/

The insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, in which supporters of President Donald Trump breached the Capitol as Congress began to count electoral votes and confirm president-elect Joe Biden’s win, led to viewership wins for all three cable news networks.

But CNN drew truly staggering numbers. The network had its most-watched day in history, with more viewers than any broadcast or cable news program. MSNBC also had the highest-rated day in its history, and Fox News had its highest total day and prime time average since the 2020 presidential election.

From 2:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m., as the chaos in the Capitol ratcheted up, CNN averaged 9.39 million viewers, with 3.27 million in the demo. Fox News had 6.07 million total viewers, with 1.58 in the demo, and MSNBC wasn’t far behind, with 5.84 million viewers, and 1.42 million in the demo.

Throughout the day, an average 5.94 million total viewers turned to CNN. By comparison, MSNBC had 4.54 million total viewers, and Fox News had 3.46 million. In the key demographic of viewers age 25-54, CNN had more than the other cable networks combined, with 2.07 million younger viewers; MSNBC had nearly 1.11 million, and Fox had 852,000.

CNN continued its dominance into prime time, with an average 8.42 million total viewers, and nearly 3.2 million in the demo. MSNBC had the second-most total viewers, 7.59 million, and 2.04 million in the demo. Fox News had the fewest total viewers in prime time, 4.71 million, and 1.19 million in the demo.

Yes it was newsworthy, nobody has said it is not.
Does it warrant a news flash, probably, does it require BBC 1 and ITV to suspend programming, no, not in my opinion.
Would you have BBC 2, Channel 4 and Channel 5 put it out too?
How about ITV 2, BBC 4, QVC Beauty?

You are losing sight of what broadcasting ought to be about with this. There are news channels on tv, news programming on the radio, online coverage of various sorts. It is really not narrowminded to say that this is important but does not require saturation coverage.

Had the USA been taken over in a civil war and democracy overturned, then it would be worth covering on the main channels live.
It hasn't been.
Some people stormed a building.
They were armed, but this is America, they all are.

The news on BBC 1 and ITV covered it at ten o'clock, only a few hours later.

Yes. There seems to be a school of thought that if you are watching the telly, then you wish to be informed of important events instantly. It may come as a shock to a few, that many folk switch on the TV to escape from all the crap that's going on, and not be subjected to even more of it. There's not much that can't wait until later, or the next day as information, and the Capitol events fitted that category (for UK viewers)