Why is christmas day TV news so awful?

[poster342002]

It always the same old drivel year in year out. It consists of the same three items:

What the queen said.
What the pope said.
Where the royals went to church.

... and that's about IT. All read in that urgent tone of voice as if they were announcing soemthing of world-shattering urgency rather than the inconsequential shite that it is.

 

[Groucho]

It always the same old drivel year in year out. It consists of the same three items:

What the queen said.
What the pope said.
Where the royals went to church.

... and that's about IT. All read in that urgent tone of voice as if they were announcing soemthing of world-shattering urgency rather than the inconsequential shite that it is.

Er..it's not Xmas day!

Anyway you are wrong. 1989 the Xmas day news featured revolution in Romania.

 

[poster342002]

Er..it's not Xmas day!

Anyway you are wrong. 1989 the Xmas day news featured revolution in Romania.

Er... I meant when it is xmas day!

I remember that 1989 one, though. Best thing I'd seen in years! I remember getting into leftwing politics because of that Romanian uprising, reaching the conclusion that if they could do it than so could we. What a shame, then, that everyone bought wholesale into the crap that "ooohhh, no - that revolution was against socialism, so we could never have a revolution like that here. That revolution actually shows we need to go further to the right".

 

[pootle]

Er..it's not Xmas day!

Anyway you are wrong. 1989 the Xmas day news featured revolution in Romania.

Yes. I remember seeing an execution on christmas day!

 

[Mrs Miggins]

poster342002 - have you been thinking about this since christmas?

 

[Donna Ferentes]

Yeah, I thought I was out of touch.

I do remember 1989 very fondly though. I had a cold and was wrapped up in front of a two-bar fire with half a bottle of brandy that my landlord had supplied before going home for Xmas. And they shot Ceaucescu to cheer me up.

 

[Dask]

I remember Ceaucescu being chased out of the Parliament building in his Helicopter.

 

[Paulie Tandoori]

It always the same old drivel year in year out. It consists of the same three items:

What the queen said.
What the pope said.
Where the royals went to church.

... and that's about IT. All read in that urgent tone of voice as if they were announcing soemthing of world-shattering urgency rather than the inconsequential shite that it is.

Ummm...switch on the radio, rent a DVD/video, go for a walk, talk to people....

<echo the "how long has this been botheringing you and why have you shared it now" sentiments....>

 

[Ranu]

It always the same old drivel year in year out. It consists of the same three items:

What the queen said.
What the pope said.
Where the royals went to church.

... and that's about IT. All read in that urgent tone of voice as if they were announcing soemthing of world-shattering urgency rather than the inconsequential shite that it is.

Are you a bit dim? Why on earth do you think it's so boring? Because everyone is on Christmas holidays and therefore nothing else happens.

 

[poster342002]

Why have I brought htis up now? No particular reason beyond being totally fed up with wall-to-wall pro-establishment arslicking propoganda.

 

[Dubversion]

but it took you 51 days to reach that conclusion?

 

[girasol]

Merry Christmas!!!!

 

[Donna Ferentes]

Hey, Darwin waited for twenty years before publishing The Origin Of Species.

 

[poster342002]

It's been on my mind, off and on, since then but I haven't got round to having a moan about it until now. I think I really noticed it in a big way this christmas gone. Dunno why - it just really struck me this time, even though it's been like this for years.

What I have noticed as being new is the stupid sense of urgency in the newsreaders' voices when announcing this drivel. "Today the QUEEN used her annual christmas mesage to say that blah blah yadda yadda!"

 

[rubbershoes]

And they shot Ceaucescu to cheer me up.

is it true that they show it on Romanian TV every christmas ?

s'like their version of wallace and gromit

 

[billy_bob]

Hey, Darwin waited for twenty years before publishing The Origin Of Species.

Perhaps Poster342002 is hoping to be misunderstood in his/her own lifetime?

Seems to be working so far, as it goes.

 

[Flashman]

I was drunk.

 

[bigbry]

It always the same old drivel year in year out. All read in that urgent tone of voice .

Why are you asking this question in February - or were you desperate to start a thread, any subject ?

 

[rhod]

God, those BBC1 idents from Xmas 1974 are bloody annoying, aren't they?

 

[purves grundy]

A more appropriate question might be "Why do Sunday newspapers contain so little news?"

Even when stuff happens during Saturday, they seem loathe to print it.

Not that I read them, being out the country and all.

 

[Bonfirelight]

halloween is shit isn't it?

stupid kids knocking on your door and all that crap.

 

[KeyboardJockey]

Yes. I remember seeing an execution on christmas day!

Pity we can't turn on the Christmas telly and see that traitor blair dangling on the end of a rope.

After all we hung Lord Haw Haw for treachery why not blair.

 

[rhod]

Good idea - perhaps Noel Edmonds could hang the liar from the BT tower on Xmas morning? Now that would be worth the license fee !

 

[Mrs Miggins]

Why have I brought htis up now? No particular reason beyond being totally fed up with wall-to-wall pro-establishment arslicking propoganda.

Little tip for you......turn the telly off

 

[Spandex]

At risk of giving a serious answer...

the reason there's so little news on Christmas day is that most of the journalists, press officers and PR people who 'make' the news are on holiday, so only a few well prepared stories like the queens speech, the pope's shindig and really major stories get reported.

 

[5t3IIa]

I think the Xmas-New Year news has been a bit actively depressing recently what wiv tsunamis and shit. Can eveybody please stop dyin?!

On a lighter note there is the the obligatory Celebrity Death Count, they get even more attention whorish wiv teh dying during teh festivities

 

[KeyboardJockey]

At risk of giving a serious answer...

the reason there's so little news on Christmas day is that most of the journalists, press officers and PR people who 'make' the news are on holiday, so only a few well prepared stories like the queens speech, the pope's shindig and really major stories get reported.

Very true. And don't forget that this year we didn't know if the pope was going to go on the balcony wearing his Hitler Youth uniform or not

 

[sparkling]

Whats people having for christmas dinner we thought we'd be differnt and go for turkey...makes a change.

 

[KeyboardJockey]

Whats people having for christmas dinner we thought we'd be differnt and go for turkey...makes a change.

What with the bird flu going round people will be asking at Xmas 06 'are you having a coughing or non coughing turkey this year?'