Do Sky News deserve to be News Channel of the Year?

All media awards are basically "self-congratulatory", and therefore by defination pointless and lame excuses for publicity. We only know about them because they are rammed down our throats by the very medium that invented them.

I don't have the "Refuse Collector of the Year" banging on my door to point out his or her award before they remove my rubbish. Why do I have to know whether Sky News or BBC News 24 have won an irrelevant tag to their channel name this year?

Do they simply flip a coin to decide which one gets it? After all, we only have two UK 24/7 News Channels.

So Sky News has gone downhill in nearly every department. You (in general) wish for major improvments in the channel, the presenters, graphics, schedule, top story etc. Its not likely to happen after winning News Channel of the Year for a second time. Maybe its time to wish for the channels closure.

Because that is gonna happen!

What a load of tosh! Sky News has become unwatchable! This stinks of fish!

Sky News has gone so badly downhill this last year, but incredibly News 24 still somehow manages to be worse!

Should have gone to AJE.

Has anyone so much has mentioned France 24, Russia Today or EuroNews?

Before Sky News was pulled from Virgin Media, it was one of the best comedy channels around. There'd be a story about a sunken boat, and you'd see the OB reporter practically stripping down to his underwear and diving into the Channel, shouting urgently "THE FERRY BUMPED INTO A LARGE SANDBANK HERE" before being interrupted by a piece of breaking news: a swimmer has found the boot of one of the passengers washed up on the shore.

Forget the RTS news awards, it needs the BAFTA for comedy.