This is why Sky News are the biggest drama queens and scaremongerers.....

eskimo

I just read through this whole page (click link below). See how scary it looks? Are ya scared?? Well, when I got to the VERY BOTTOM of the article, well, read (below the link) the sentence I came across.

http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/World-News/Swine-Flu-Pandemic-Threat-Level-Raised-From-Four-To-Five-By-WHO---The-Second-Highest-Level/Article/200904415272069?lpos=World_News_Carousel_Region_0&lid=ARTICLE_15272069_Swine_Flu%3A_Pandemic_Threat_Level_Raised_From_Four_To_Five_By_WHO_-_The_Second_Highest_Level

"Almost all cases outside of Mexico have had only mild symptoms, and only a handful of people have needed hospital treatment."

AAAAAACHOOO! Excuse me. Sorry I think I've got swine flu. Might go take a Lemsip.

AlmightyCushion

The worst thing about sky is they show the same crap every 15 minutes (they even advertise this for fúcks sake) and yet there are still gobshítes who'll sit there and watch it all bloody day.

Koloman

eskimo wrote: »

I just read through this whole page (click link below). See how scary it looks? Are ya scared?? Well, when I got to the VERY BOTTOM of the article, well, read (below the link) the sentence I came across.

http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/World-News/Swine-Flu-Pandemic-Threat-Level-Raised-From-Four-To-Five-By-WHO---The-Second-Highest-Level/Article/200904415272069?lpos=World_News_Carousel_Region_0&lid=ARTICLE_15272069_Swine_Flu%3A_Pandemic_Threat_Level_Raised_From_Four_To_Five_By_WHO_-_The_Second_Highest_Level

"Almost all cases outside of Mexico have had only mild symptoms, and only a handful of people have needed hospital treatment."

AAAAAACHOOO! Excuse me. Sorry I think I've got swine flu. Might go take a Lemsip.

But isn't that what Sky do all the time? They over react to every story as if the world is going to end! They are loving this story at the moment, it means they can panic people.

thelordofcheese

This is the curse of 24 hour news.

If they didn't make a big deal out of everything they'd have 15 minutes of factual reporting and the other 45 would be Jeremy Thompson doing impromptu puppetry using an ovenglove with a face drawn on it.

AlmightyCushion

thelordofcheese wrote: »

This is the curse of 24 hour news.

If they didn't make a big deal out of everything they'd have 15 minutes of factual reporting and the other 45 would be Jeremy Thompson doing impromptu puppetry using an ovenglove with a face drawn on it.

I'd prefer to watch than the shíte that sky shovel.

holly1

BREAKING NEWS!!!!

The Prime Minister got a flat tyre on his way to Downing st today.

Nick_oliveri

Drumming up fear is the new cool, the Y2K+1 bug. Thats what im calling it.
We all gonna die, etc..

Mr.Lizard

AlmightyCushion wrote: »

The worst thing about sky is they show the same crap every 15 minutes (they even advertise this for fúcks sake) and yet there are still gobshítes who'll sit there and watch it all bloody day.

What else would they be doing?

Rented Mule

I would also like to bring up their partners in crime across the seas.....Foxnews.

Murdoch just loves to stir the pot.

Trampas

News Corps are forever making things out to be worse as they are.

They are not helping with the R either by saying things are going to get a lot worse so nobody is spending anything which makes it worse.

Mark200

They're no where near as bad as Fox News. At least they still report news! (except the whole Jade Goody thing and the news might be slightly biased).

However, I don't see how you can blame Sky News. About half of that article was made up from quotes of people in power.

'WHO chief Margaret Chan said "it really is all of humanity that is under threat in a pandemic".'

That's not Sky News that is scaremongering. The WHO are pretty much the guys who are in charge of trying to stop pandemics.

So even though Sky News may be very biased some times, I really don't think this is their fault.

And Level 5, which the WHO raised the level of alert to, means that a global pandemic is imminent. The World Health Organisation said this, not Sky News.

Hagar

eskimo wrote: »

"Almost all cases outside of Mexico have had only mild symptoms, and only a handful of people have needed hospital treatment."

Mexico, shyte, I thought they said Texaco and I've being going miles out of my way to buy petrol in Shell. :mad:

bill_ashmount

Mark200 wrote: »

And Level 5, which the WHO raised the level of alert to, means that a global pandemic is imminent. The World Health Organisation said this, not Sky News.

On the BBC site:

A senior health official in Europe says it is not a question of whether people in Europe will die, but how many - perhaps hundreds or thousands

Mr Benevolent

A bit of balance from Wikipedia:

The "Hong Kong Flu", 1968–69. An H3N2 caused about 34,000 deaths in the United States. This virus was first detected in Hong Kong in early 1968, and spread to the United States later that year. This pandemic of 1968 and 1969 killed an estimated one million people worldwide.[35

Now why hasn't Sky News mentioned that? There's an obvious reason. It would detract from this scare.

There have been many pandemics and there still are loads, including:

Cholera
Influenza
HIV and AIDS
Measles
Tuberculosis
Malaria
Yellow fever

All of them are dangerous if left untreated. This entire scare is deliberately being taken out of context for some reason.

Raiser

Sky News Editors get erections in proportionate scale to:

Rising casualty counts.
The number/quality of horrific injuries.
Scale of heartbreaking trauma.

- They are the pits - should be renamed Pits News

Black Swan

Sky News is equivalent to red tops at checkout.

flanzer

Blue_Lagoon wrote: »

Sky News is equivalent to red tops at checkout.

Or RTE's reporting of the Recession

SoupyNorman

Sky News :

'We're great, I think we should get the parachute because we're great. In fact we are so great we think we should get both the parachutes, in case the other one fails'.

Fighting Irish

lol @ people who still watch television

internet > tv

Gone Drinking

Fighting Irish wrote: »

lol @ people who still watch television

internet > tv

lol @ people who still live in Carlow

everywhere > Carlow

Danbo!

The first time I saw 'breaking news' on sky was during the september 11th attacks.

After a few months they were using it for everything. 'Breaking news - thousands killed in new york terror attack' very quickly turned into 'Breaking news - jade goody takes a dump in BHS'

Such a load of bull.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

....and yet you still watch it.

It's money people, not news - didn't you see Tomorrow Never Dies? Chances are Rupert Murdoch bio-engineered the disease.

spank_inferno

I guess its because fear sells
Most of their audience is too dumb to believe otherwise.

Point:
Yesterdays swine flu update from the World Health Organisation:

http://www.who.int/csr/don/2009_04_29/en/index.html

take note of where if states that there have been 7 mexican fatalities & 1 in the USA.

Meanwhile Mexico continues to have the 10th highest murder rate in the world
(almost 30 homicides per day) source Wikipedia


but where is the "breaking news" there?

toiletduck

holly1 wrote: »

BREAKING NEWS!!!!

The Prime Minister got a flat tyre on his way to Downing st today.

Kay Burley: We're getting reports of an incident regarding Gordon Browne's convoy. Hold on, we've got a caller, Martin from Ipswich on the line who saw what happened. Martin are you there?

Local gob****e: Yeah well the cars are all stopped. Police everywhere. We dunno what's happening. Everyone's scared.

Kay: Thanks for that. Now we are hearing that it is a flat tyre. Too early to say whether terrorist involvement is likely. But it would be in keeping with tactics.

We have a reporter at Downing Street

Nobody at Number 10: Well spokesmen here are refusing to comment on whether terrorists were involved. Also rumors that the driver had swine flu but again no comment

Kay: We'll be staying with this for the next four hours.


Man I love Sky News.

mike65

Confab wrote: »

There have been many pandemics and there still are loads, including:

Cholera
Influenza
HIV and AIDS
Measles
Tuberculosis
Malaria
Yellow fever

All of them are dangerous if left untreated. This entire scare is deliberately being taken out of context for some reason.

So you want Sky News to ramp up the threat from 7 more mass killers? We'll spend the rest of time hiding behind the sofa! :eek:

Fighting Irish

Gone Drinking wrote: »

lol @ people who still live in Carlow

everywhere > Carlow

thats great but internet > tv

watch what you want when you want, get news from many sources when you want

Highsider

Everytime there is a terroist attack (which let's face it is'nt often) their rating go through the roof. Do they love bad news? Yes

MOH

One of the most annoying things about Sky is that they can spend the entire day showing a story every 15 minutes, the next day they move on to something else and completely ignore the original story. It's goldfish news.

Mr Benevolent

It's goldfish news

There's one for Quote of the Year. Brilliant, my man.

monkey9

Sky News have ruined the thrill and excitement of breaking news popping up on the screen.

In fact, hardcore breaking news was when The A-Team was interrupted by a news reader. That's when you knew something big was going down. You just knew something had blown up or someone mad famous had died.

Great days. Great days!

chopperbyrne

spank_inferno wrote: »

Meanwhile Mexico continues to have the 10th highest murder rate in the world
(almost 30 homicides per day) source Wikipedia


but where is the "breaking news" there?

Did you really need to ask why it's not "breaking news"?

amacachi

toiletduck wrote: »

Kay Burley: We're getting reports of an incident regarding Gordon Browne's convoy. Hold on, we've got a caller, Martin from Ipswich on the line who saw what happened. Martin are you there?

Local gob****e: Yeah well the cars are all stopped. Police everywhere. We dunno what's happening. Everyone's scared.

Kay: Thanks for that. Now we are hearing that it is a flat tyre. Too early to say whether terrorist involvement is likely. But it would be in keeping with tactics.

We have a reporter at Downing Street

Nobody at Number 10: Well spokesmen here are refusing to comment on whether terrorists were involved. Also rumors that the driver had swine flu but again no comment

Kay: We'll be staying with this for the next four hours.


Man I love Sky News.

The problem is I don't know if that happened or not.

AARRRGH

I hate this crap. WHO are totally incompetent, or corrupt. Why else would they say we have a pandemic on our hands? OH NO, WE GOT THE FLU. Hundreds of thousands of people already die every year from the flu. What's happening is normal.

The risk of you dying from swine flu is so minimal. You are more likely to die from lightening. Or your car.

Why doesn't Sky News have the car death pandemic as a head line?

THOUSANDS DYING WORLDWIDE EVERYDAY FROM CAR DEATH PANDEMIC.

But nooooo let's stir fear as it controls people.

I hate corruption and misinformation.

The world is ****ed.

faceman

haha, someone who posts on AH watches Sky news!!

*gets back to reading Daily Record*

SoupyNorman

faceman wrote: »

*gets back to reading Daily Record*

Lets do the quiz!

[Sky News Scrolling Banner].....Norman's offer of communal quiz sharing...........BREAKING NEWS: Faceman still hasn't taken up Soupy.......[/Sky News Scrolling Banner]

ad infinitum.

thelordofcheese

AARRRGH wrote: »

I hate this crap. WHO are totally incompetent, or corrupt. Why else would they say we have a pandemic on our hands? OH NO, WE GOT THE FLU. Hundreds of thousands of people already die every year from the flu. What's happening is normal.

the WHO are neither, you just don't seem to grasp the meaning of the words used.

the conditions for a pandemic are

• Emergence of a disease new to a population.
• Agents infect humans, causing serious illness.
• Agents spread easily and sustainably among humans.

And swine flu meets there three criteria, and the appearance of strain of flu that is a mix four different flu viruses is not exactly normal.

basically, stop whining at the WHO for doing their job, if anything blame the monster that is 24hour news.

AARRRGH

thelordofcheese wrote: »

the WHO are neither, you just don't seem to grasp the meaning of the words used.

the conditions for a pandemic are

• Emergence of a disease new to a population.
• Agents infect humans, causing serious illness.
• Agents spread easily and sustainably among humans.

And swine flu meets there three criteria, and the appearance of strain of flu that is a mix four different flu viruses is not exactly normal.

basically, stop whining at the WHO for doing their job, if anything blame the monster that is 24hour news.

Actually, you're right, WHO are just saying there is a disease which can be passed from human to human, and the media are making it seem like we're in big trouble.

PS Thanks for your cranky reply.

Saibh

For a TV station that runs for 24 hours - it gets boring watching it after 15 minutes

thelordofcheese

AARRRGH wrote: »

Actually, you're right, WHO are just saying there is a disease which can be passed from human to human, and the media are making it seem like we're in big trouble.

PS Thanks for your cranky reply.

no worries, it's what I do.

Persiancowboy

Sky News (and all other sky channels) is basically television for the meatheads who buy the Sun newspaper. Sky news also boasts the world's number 1 airhead/drama queen/narcissistic b**ch in Ms. Kay Burley. Is there anyone anywhere who loves themselves so much as she does?

LouOB

Wait I seen this one
Wasnt Dustin Hoffman in it

Ireland is NEVER on the map of the world in the movies
or in alien landings - hence they dont know we exsist
so shurrrrrr uppp
we could escape this, with the whole world dead in 28weeks

Aidric

thelordofcheese wrote: »

the other 45 would be Jeremy Thompson doing impromptu puppetry using an ovenglove with a face drawn on it.

I'm sick of his smugness tbh.

Linku

Sky News over use 'Breaking News' ever since 9/11. It's hard to turn on the channel without getting that scrolling yellow Breaking News banner. How about you just piece together a report properly instead of interrupting an unrealted report on Budget Day with SWOOOOSH! BREAKING NEWS: ALISTAIR DARLING TO LEAVE NO. 10 SHORTLY (about 15 minutes before it happened)

That's not news! Of course on budget day when he did leave, Sky had the 'Skycopter' out to get an aerial shot of him holding up the red case and taking the 40 second car journey from No. 10 to Westminster, and then circling shots of Westminster during the budget speech!!

thelordofcheese

LouOB wrote: »

Wait I seen this one
Wasnt Dustin Hoffman in it

Ireland is NEVER on the map of the world in the movies
or in alien landings - hence they dont know we exsist
so shurrrrrr uppp
we could escape this, with the whole world dead in 28weeks

Heh, i remember seeing an episode of Stargate SG-1 where they did a mirror universe thingy, and earth had been invaded. They had a map of the world and someone gestures towards it going "the red areas are the ones that have been destroyed by the Goa'uld".
And lo and behold a giant red mark over dublin.
It made me happy.

So basically, we're fine unless a bunch of aliens posing as ancient egyptian gods show up, then we're fucked.