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Kieo

today on sky news the main story was the home sec's use of her expenses account for porn films worth £60. But only hours earlier 3 people had died in a house fire in england and a forth person(child) was serious in hospital. How can they justify the first story as more important than the second.. am really annoyed:mad:

conolan

Sky news is tabloid. Therefore anyhting titavating is important.

Cabaal

...and this is why I don't waste my time with Sky News, if you want real news then your looking in the wrong place with Sky News.

Its the Daily Mail/The Sun of TV stations

ADTR

Sky News is crap.

Proxy

When they won their 500th News Channel of the Year award they just stopped trying. Its pure trash now.

Hogzy

What would ye consider a good 24hr news channel!!! Considering BBC News isnt on Sky Digital?

legendal

Hogzy wrote: »

Considering BBC News isnt on Sky Digital?

It is on Sky, just need to add it to your 'Other Channels' in the Services menu.

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Hogzy

Bahhhh all the effort of other channels!

Joey the lips

legendal wrote: »

It is on Sky, just need to add it to your 'Other Channels' in the Services menu.

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You try to educate them and they dont listen Leave them with Sky news

I agree its sh1t Use the net..... A lot more choice

It can be funny to watch a story on sky , CNN and then aljazeera you get different slants

Stargal

Yeah, I noticed that and thought it was ridiculous too - but then I went on to the Guardian website and it was the lead story there aswell.

There were differences in how it was covered: Sky News focused on the porn and how embarrassing it was. The Guardian did too, to an extent, but it also looked at how expenses for British MPs is currently a huge issue and how this is just the latest in a series of controversies over them.

Either way, it's hardly something that should be given such prominent coverage anywhere.

Kevster

Sky News wasn't always bad, but it's been pure drivel for the past 5 or so years. The best news channel I've ever watched was actually ITV News but that's now disbanded. The ones I watch now are:

EuroNews
BBC News 24

...and to a lesser extent CNN

santosubito

Kieo wrote: »

today on sky news the main story was the home sec's use of her expenses account for porn films worth £60. But only hours earlier 3 people had died in a house fire in england and a forth person(child) was serious in hospital. How can they justify the first story as more important than the second.. am really annoyed:mad:

Hold on a minute. The Guardian led with the story the next day, as did most other broadsheeets and tabloids. I like Sky News. I think some of their journalists are excellent, particularly Matrtin Brunt, the cirme guy and Adam Boulton, the political fella.

Elmo

santosubito wrote: »

Hold on a minute. The Guardian led with the story the next day, as did most other broadsheeets and tabloids. I like Sky News. I think some of their journalists are excellent, particularly Matrtin Brunt, the cirme guy and Adam Boulton, the political fella.

Led with which story the Minister or the Fire.

TBH the Fire only got on Sky News because it happened in England. If it had happened in Scotland, Walse or Northern Ireland it would have been disregard.

Newswipe is a good show as to what News people promote as news, Charlie Brooker was pointing out how the Sky News people stood outside Jade Goodies house as she died while having a small proportion of the news set out to the Peace Protests in Northern Ireland on the same day. Which would you run with, I think Northern Ireland was a better story.

Koloman

Elmo wrote: »

Led with which story the Minister or the Fire.

TBH the Fire only got on Sky News because it happened in England. If it had happened in Scotland, Walse or Northern Ireland it would have been disregard.

Newswipe is a good show as to what News people promote as news, Charlie Brooker was pointing out how the Sky News people stood outside Jade Goodies house as she died while having a small proportion of the news set out to the Peace Protests in Northern Ireland on the same day. Which would you run with, I think Northern Ireland was a better story.

But the people in "Mainland Britain" don't give a monkey's for the going's on in NI. You could also say the same thing about the people in the Republic of Ireland. Northern Ireland = Zzzzz...! for most people.

A story about Jade would unfortunately have more people tuning in.

Elmo

Koloman wrote: »

But the people in "Mainland Britain" don't give a monkey's for the going's on in NI. You could also say the same thing about the people in the Republic of Ireland. Northern Ireland = Zzzzz...! for most people.

A story about Jade would unfortunately have more people tuning in.

Not this again :rolleyes: I am talking about "mainland England" as I said you rarely here about news from Scotland and Wales you would think that they didn't exist.

News is news if you are a Broadcaster that is aimed an UK audience then you respect each country in that union :rolleyes: I totally support an Independent England if they want it

Allah Hu Akbar

Kieo wrote: »

today on sky news the main story was the home sec's use of her expenses account for porn films worth £60. But only hours earlier 3 people had died in a house fire in england and a forth person(child) was serious in hospital. How can they justify the first story as more important than the second.. am really annoyed:mad:

What do you expect. Look at who owns it!

Elmo

Allah Hu Akbar wrote: »

What do you expect. Look at who owns it!

Yes but he also owns other media and news outlets that possible covered the story, you cann't always blame the owner. How did the BBC run with these stories.

Nothing else is happening in the world other then The Recession.

r3nu4l

Stargal wrote: »

...but it also looked at how expenses for British MPs is currently a huge issue and how this is just the latest in a series of controversies over them.

Either way, it's hardly something that should be given such prominent coverage anywhere.

Exactly! This story is set against a bigger backdrop. There is huge disgust at the moment over Ministerial expenses and certain ministers claiming expenses for their second home in London. It turns out that some of them are claiming the expense even though they are staying with relatives while in London.

Taxpayers in Britain have had to fork out a lot of money for the irrepsonsible behaviour of banks only to discover that many of their executives still got big bonuses, pay-offs and/or huge pensions and now they find this type of scandalous behaviour from their MPs.

That said, this story has been absolutely ridiculously overplayed by British media but it's not the first time and unfortunately, it won't be the last time.