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DaveCinzano
WATCH OUT, GEORGE, HE'S GOT A SCREWDRIVER!
front page of tomorrow's 'news of the world', referring to the coordinated timing of the tube bombs:
'gone in 50 seconds'
ffs
'gone in 50 seconds'
ffs
DJ Squelch
King Of Insides
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/4663975.stm
About missing people the BBC had this unfortunate quote -
"I am trying to keep my hopes alive for her, I am hoping she is in hospital somewhere, " said Mr Hasan.
"Her mother and father have fallen to pieces over this."
You would have thought someone might of realized that was not the best turn of phrase to be quoting at this time.
About missing people the BBC had this unfortunate quote -
"I am trying to keep my hopes alive for her, I am hoping she is in hospital somewhere, " said Mr Hasan.
"Her mother and father have fallen to pieces over this."
You would have thought someone might of realized that was not the best turn of phrase to be quoting at this time.
spartacus mills
let's wee on each other
Friday's evenning ITN news showed a photo of the bombed bus. Survivors could be seen on the top deck. The newsreader said: "If you are one of the people in this photo we want to speak to you. If you recognise anyone in this photo please ring our hotline..."
So they're encouraging people to hunt down the traumatised survivors and feed them to the journos!
This morning on BBC News24 (about 9.30) they interviewd two men desperately searching for their younger sister who has been missing since Thursday. The Usual intrusive questions and then the reporter turned to a clinical psychologist and asked the likely effects on people of losing friends and relatives WHILE THESE TWO POOR MEN ARE STILL STANDING THERE.
Intrusive and insensitive.
So they're encouraging people to hunt down the traumatised survivors and feed them to the journos!
This morning on BBC News24 (about 9.30) they interviewd two men desperately searching for their younger sister who has been missing since Thursday. The Usual intrusive questions and then the reporter turned to a clinical psychologist and asked the likely effects on people of losing friends and relatives WHILE THESE TWO POOR MEN ARE STILL STANDING THERE.
Intrusive and insensitive.
Yes, it's nasty. And the actual cover-line from this morning is subtly nastier, despite it being the Sun trying in a strange kind of way...
"Two beautiful decent women. One Christian, one Muslim."
Was thinking about Photoshopping up a spoof page 3, but no...
"Two beautiful decent women. One Christian, one Muslim."
Was thinking about Photoshopping up a spoof page 3, but no...
laptop said:
Indeed. Page 3 did enter my head when I read that article..
I also thought 'What if the 2 women had been (in society's general sense of the word) "ugly" and, I dunno, had criminal records or been ASBOd?'
sorry, shouldn't make jokes but you get my drift....would their lives have been worth less?
Bristly Pioneer said:
Yeah I saw that, and to be fair he had just spoken to an eyewitness who TOLD him it was a tourist bus. Don't be so harsh, news only filters in so fast; what's he meant to do? Sit there in silence until he gets some more information while thousands of scared people are glued to the tv desperate to hear more?
I thought ITV news was shit though.
andy2002
To the Bat-poles!
Something else that irritated me - The Sun on Friday morning claimed that the bomb on the No 30 bus was the work of a suicide bomber despite no such thing being confirmed by the authorities. As if last Thursday wasn't dramatic enough without hack journalists cranking up the melodrama even further...
laptop said:
OK. The two beautiful women thing is completely inappropriate, as someone said, would they have bothered putting up pix of two older, less beautiful people?
But with the one Christian/one Muslim thing, yes it was crass, yes I didn't feel comfortable with it either when I saw it, BUT I do think they WERE making some kind of effort to defuse any possible anger/tension.
I've seen far worse, far more inflammatory Sun headlines.
JTG said:
Fucking twats. How dare they tell us how we should react?
That Gibson twat has got a record of being an ultra-right tosser anyway, hasn't he? Or am I thinking of some other Fox scumbag?
Fox News last night
Wookey
Muppet is not a slur
That just had me on the floor that did!! Classic. Bless 'em.
The point I'm making Kidda is that it's very easy to sit and consume the news and criticise the way it's been reported, but the only people who were running towards the blasts were emergency services and the media.
In other words, unless you've run towards a bomb blast with your camera and dictaphone, knowing that you have a job to do and you simply have to do it, then it's a bit hollow to be criticising people in that position.
Some people on this thread seem quite willing to watch the TV reports and read the news articles - without making the obvious connection that the minute they consume the news, they become the very reason it was made.
So many journalists have potentially put themslves in danger, in order to get the news out TO US LOT about what's happening. The thanks they get is armchair criticism from people who've never done such a brave thing in their lives.
Interviewing bereaved people for TV is not easy. If one's never tried it, I suggest one wouldn't have much of a clue about the practical, legal and moral restrictions in place there - and one wouldn't be in the best position to criticise. Especially not when one has just watched said news report from start to finish whilst sitting on one's fat arse in a comfortable reclining chair.
I don't mean to sound bitter, but some people annoy me with their short-sighted knee-jerk reaction to the media, a job they neither would nor could do given the chance.
I'm not defending particular instances of poor journalism - rather, the way in which our general response is to just damn them out of hand. There is no thread on these boards congratulating the reporters and cameramen on scene for standing in a war zone and doing the best they could to inform the world of events. That's the attitude that bugs me.
elbows
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I havent seen/heard any jounalism as bad as the live stuff that went out on the telly in the USA on 9/11. When the towers started falling the presenters doing the voiceover were totally not watching the footage properly and said all sorts of innapropriate things, it still makes me cringe just to think bout it.
I wasnt very impressed by this call-out from a US TV startup (with Al Gore as chairman) for footage, I just thought it was put out in a cold way, espeically the email title 'The assignment is London; the journalist is you' and the $250 offer.
http://www.current.tv/blog/?id=99
Still I was probably overreacting at the time as it doesnt wind me up so much now.
I wasnt very impressed by this call-out from a US TV startup (with Al Gore as chairman) for footage, I just thought it was put out in a cold way, espeically the email title 'The assignment is London; the journalist is you' and the $250 offer.
http://www.current.tv/blog/?id=99
Still I was probably overreacting at the time as it doesnt wind me up so much now.
Wookey
Muppet is not a slur
I don't know the example, but it never seems to occur to people that journalists might be worried too. That US journo might have known people in the towers, who knows? And they can't just say: 'Jesus, I know someone in there, I've got to go'....they have to just carry on, regardless.
Many journalists reporting on the Tube bombs will have known, or been frantic about, people they thought were in the Tube system. Somehow they over-ride that human fear, and carry on working. The parallels I make with the emergency services aren't lazy of lame, they face a very similar situation; one has to subsume oneself for the sake of the story/victims.
Like I always say, if it isn't good enough for you, get a microphone and do it yourself. You'd soon stop moaning imo.
Mrs Magpie
On a bit of break...
The online Sun on Friday had link after link after link relating to the bombs with the odd juxtapostion of a link saying KITTEN HORROR. I thought I'd got onto a cloned spoof page of The Sun done by an Urbanite for a moment...then I wondered if somehow some cute fluffy kittens had somehow been caught up in the rush hour bombs...but no. Someone had lobbed four kittens out of a car window on a motorway.andy2002 said:
Fits and Starts
Am I late again?
shoddysolutions said:
Both the Star and the Daily Racist/Express should be hung out to dry for their front pages on the 8th July. Disgusting journalism, as we've come to expect from Richard Desmond's dirty rags.
I particularly enjoyed Saturday's Daily Mail front page. The bottom half was all BOMB DEATH TERROR. The top half was a huge advert: FREE COMEDY! ONLY FOOLS AND HORSES DVD! ONLY WITH YOUR DAILY MAIL!
I felt so much better about things knowing that should I wish, I could relive the hilarious adventures of Peckham's favourite wide boys. Particularly the hysterical bit where Del Boy leans on a bar and then falls over. Or the one where they dress up as Batman and Robin. That makes everything all right.
I felt so much better about things knowing that should I wish, I could relive the hilarious adventures of Peckham's favourite wide boys. Particularly the hysterical bit where Del Boy leans on a bar and then falls over. Or the one where they dress up as Batman and Robin. That makes everything all right.
Wookey
Muppet is not a slur
So far better they print a special funereal edition, replete with black ink borders, a suitably solemn survivor picture, a run-down of hymns during the service, and a free London Underground commemorative ticket stub for every reader?
You can't see the point in having two famously unquashable London comic creations on the front cover of a newspaper, this week of all weeks?
What is it they say about pleasing some of the people some of the time?
Wookey said:
Wookey, I don't have a taste issue with this at all and as a journalist and Londoner myself I have absolutely no desire to see endless po-faced and sombre newspapers and mags. But I though the huge COMEDY! headline was a rather unfortunate juxtaposition.
I also find it astonishing that the Mail couldn't have cleared their front page for this story when they're happy to clear the entire page for the latest no-evidence health scare.
And for 'famously unquashable' read 'ludicrously annoying'. I, for one, do not feel represented by Del Boy and Rodders, despite living in London and am not particularly moved or inspired by their fictional example. Particularly when they're on the front page of the Hate Mail to flog a crappy old DVD.
Chairman Meow
Perth, WA
Yesterday's Irish Sunday World had a journo doing a 'Will Ireland be next?' piece - the jist of which was that the people who protested against the American troops stopping off at Shannon airport on their was to bomb Iraq, were irresponsibly bringing us the attention of al quaeda, and therefore it would be the protestors fault if Ireland got hit next. How twisted is that logic?
Donna Ferentes
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