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Sky News gets it wrong - on purpose?

  • 30-07-2009 5:24pm
    #1
    yaaaboy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 188 ✭✭


    At around 8 o clock this morning i chanced upon the weather forecast on sky news and to my dismay was informed that it was "windy and rainy" all over the South West of Ireland and this would push all over Ireland in the next few hours and sure enough the graphics backed this up with all of the country hidden behind a sheet of rain...
    However i was shocked to go outside and see a lovely day brewing in West Kerry. I then travelled to tralee and killarney before arriving home at around 3 o clock all the time expecting the predicted dramatic downpours which never materialised..i also noted from television coverage of the Galway races that although they had a few showers, they too enjoyed a good day on the whole.

    I figured that Sky news weather simply got it wrong (much like met Eireann often do here) until i spoke to a friend about how wrong they got it. He informed me that Sky News often do this to somehow rain on Ireland's parade and that the English and Irish weather forecasts often differ during the few times Sky News actually gives the Irish forecast instead of standing in front of Ireland on the map to show the impending weather of Great Britain. Surely this could not be true since Sky News beams into the majority of Irish homes everyday..

    A patriotic rant by my friend thinking that a Sky news conspiracy is out to damage tourism to Ireland or a less sinister mistake?


Comments

  • #2
    mike65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 88,972 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    Your friend is an idiot.


  • #3
    yaaaboy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 188 ✭✭yaaaboy


    i agree


  • #4
    ynotdu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,817 ✭✭✭ynotdu


    yaaaboy LOL,although i would put nothing past SKY,this idea definatly approaching paranoia:)

    Sky news actually as a percentage of population of Ireland compared to UK gets much more viewers here:)

    Sky opened an office here and had a dedicated 7pm slot for Ireland(available to ex-pats in UK via red button)

    it was closed as SKY said there was not enough news here for a full time bereau:confused:

    i have doubts about the usefulness of the 24/7 news channels(for instance what is happening in Uganda now?
    it seems THEY decide what the news is,it is something i would like to start a thread about sometime.


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