Sky News Is Not News

Peist2007

Anyone watch the sensationalist rubbish on Sky News regarding Tiger Woods' spot of whiplash? When i turned it on i panicked. I thought THE greatest sportsman of our teams was "seriously injured" in a car accident.
Sad thing is i actually believe that Sky are disappointed that it has turned into a non-event.

amacachi

Peist2007 wrote: »

Anyone watch the sensationalist rubbish on Sky News regarding Tiger Woods' spot of whiplash? When i turned it on i panicked. I thought THE greatest sportsman of our teams was "seriously injured" in a car accident.
Sad thing is i actually believe that Sky are disappointed that it has turned into a non-event.

The way they were talking, tone etc. had me very worried. Then I remembered it was Sky News.

Hardrain

Slowly morphing into a UK FOX 'News'

Mossy Monk

It will never be as bad as FOX News but it is by far the worst 'news' channel on this side of the Atlantic.

greendom

Mossy Monk wrote: »

It will never be as bad as FOX News but it is by far the worst 'news' channel on this side of the Atlantic.

Naah ITV news is far worse tbh

jumpguy

Actually, Sky News is a sister-station of FOX News. Both abysmal, sensationalist news. Sure I thought the Shuttle Programme had been cancelled with the way they were talking after a launch. A small piece of foam had come off harmlessly and NASA were investigation. :rolleyes:

Mossy Monk

greendom wrote: »

Naah ITV news is far worse tbh

Their news channel shut down a few years ago.

jumpguy wrote: »

Actually, Sky News is a sister-station of FOX News.

Yes. All owned or partly owned by Rupert Murdochs News Corp

Busi_Girl08

I got a Tweet alert from the Irish Times with the headline "Tiger Woods "seriously injured" in car crash"

It then gave me a link to the article that said he was released and will be doing an opening next week

weepee

I think he may have had the wrong 'driver' !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

JonathanAnon

A lot of the media had him down as "seriously injured" and "badly injured".. so you cant really blame sky news completely .. but they do always err on the side of sensationalism... About an hour after his agent had confirmed that Woods was okay, they STILL had the headline saying that he was seriously injured....

RayM

I was on the way home earlier, when someone sent me a text, saying that "Tiger Woods was seriously injured". I very nearly crashed.

dmcg90

Christ it seems even Digital Spy is less sensationalist than Sky News now.

dloob

Sky News have to keep reporting the same thing over and over 24hrs a day.
So if anything happens it gets wall to wall sensational coverage.

Richard Dower

The channel has gone down hill badly, as someone else said it's the tv version of The Sun....in fact, i strongly suspect stories that appear in The Sun are reported on Sky News just to sell more papers....as if Sky is just a promo tool to sell papers.

I have a serious beef with S N....it used to be ace, the days they broadcast the OJ and Louise Woodward trail, when hard news comes in like big events they get ok....but these clowns covered the Jade Goody funeral!!!!!!

The presenters have little credibility save for a few.

dloob

Don't be too hard on them, they had extensive coverage of the muppets version of bohemian rhapsody all day today. :pac:

congo_90

Damn. Was hoping for something big and conspiring to relieve my boredom. just a simple rant really..

greendom

Mossy Monk wrote: »

Their news channel shut down a few years ago.

I was talking about the news that appears on the ITV channels not the defunct station

Elmo

Mossy Monk wrote: »

Their news channel shut down a few years ago.

Have you seen ITV's main evening news? It is great to see that ITN can provide entirely different news for different channels, C4 is miles ahead of it.

Mossy Monk

greendom wrote: »

I was talking about the news that appears on the ITV channels not the defunct station

Elmo wrote: »

Have you seen ITV's main evening news? It is great to see that ITN can provide entirely different news for different channels, C4 is miles ahead of it.

I was talking about news channels, not news bulletins as you can see from what I have quoted below. I have no care or want to watch ITV for my news.

Mossy Monk wrote: »

It will never be as bad as FOX News but it is by far the worst 'news' channel on this side of the Atlantic.

Dozen Wicked Words

Fox is just scary, although the lookers to dogs ratio is quite high. Truly insular and right winged bias crap. As previous posters have said Sky is fast descending into Fox UK. Trivial gimmicks, just dross. Yet it seems to wins awards every year, Murdoch must be the king of kick backs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6jZFZNeOF0

The Pontiac

dooferoaks wrote: »

Fox is just scary, although the lookers to dogs ratio is quite high. Truly insular and right winged bias crap. As previous posters have said Sky is fast descending into Fox UK. Trivial gimmicks, just dross. Yet it seems to wins awards every year, Murdoch must be the king of kick backs.

Bang On!! This is a great documentary..

This is a clip is taken from that docu...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DI7u-TytRU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxWUA764H7E

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2-nILTO3dc

greendom

Mossy Monk wrote: »

I was talking about news channels, not news bulletins as you can see from what I have quoted below. I have no care or want to watch ITV for my news.

Just as well - it's bloody awful

3hn2givr7mx1sc

RayM wrote: »

I was on the way home earlier, when someone sent me a text, saying that "Tiger Woods was seriously injured". I very nearly crashed.

Shouldn't have been using your phone while you were driving then.

crushproof

The headline flashing up on the huge horrific Sky News screen in Pearse Street station last night was "Susan Boyle pictured taking out garbage"

That did it for me...from now on I'm only watching Francis Wilsons weather reports on Sky!

Watch C4 or Al Jazzera for quality news reporting

Elmo

crushproof wrote: »

Watch C4 or Al Jazzera for quality news reporting

But C4 don't have a news channel.

Sleipnir

What did you expect?

Fox - Owned by News Corporation which is controlled by Rupert Murdoch.
Sky - Owned by News Corporation,which is controlled by Rupert Murdoch.

FearDark

Sky News = The Sun (but with moving pictures)

Sleipnir

FearDark wrote: »

Sky News = The Sun (but with moving pictures)

The Sun - Owned by News International which is owned by News Corporation,which is controlled by Rupert Murdoch.

Anyone seeing the pattern here?

Richard Dower

OutFoxed was on RTE 2 awhile back...twas interesting, but you could also say the documentary was also very unbalanced and edited a certain way to trash Fox.

Sky News = tabloid tv.

Trouser_Press

dooferoaks wrote: »

Fox is just scary, although the lookers to dogs ratio is quite high.

With comments of that intellect I would have thought Sky and Fox were right up your street.

Richard Dower

Trouser_Press wrote: »

With comments of that intellect I would have thought Sky and Fox were right up your street.

^ but it's a valid point....the news channels don't hire ugly people, they probably have data to prove good looking people draw in more viewers.

indough

Trouser_Press wrote: »

With comments of that intellect I would have thought Sky and Fox were right up your street.

a bit unnecessary, espescially considering he's right

Richard Dower

I think the OP poster used humour to make the valid argument that good looking presenters are hired, they use older more experienced presenters with a young good looking counterpart.

mikemac

Me too, I was shocked to see (possibly) the greatest sportsman alive "seriously injured"
What a load of hype!

Don't even remind me how they are the Sun newspaper were dragging out the McCann case months after everyone else dropped it

Sky News is trash

Richard Dower

And they are movie stars!...how many Fox movies have featured Sky news presenters?....Independence Day, Volcano, Mission Impossible....and others!

ynotdu

Ollie i absoulutly Loved the three Clinton Video's,always good to see FOX squirm!:D

I wish posters who plagerised My comments from another thread would at least credit it,or the various broadcast forums on boards will become as tabloid as the channels!:pac::pac::pac:

God FOX is DIRE and Sky news a shambles,dumbed down so much its 'loyal' viewers only stay because of the old familour voices and 'some' presenters who are trying to salvage something of SN's golden days.

Richard Dower

Did you coin the "Sky News is The Sun"?....'cause i mentioned in my posting it was mentioned by another poster/thread!

CUCINA

Sky News is really just a microcosm of TV in general. Apart from the BBC (and perhaps CH. Four), 90% of TV is basically crap.

You can't even get any respite from your local video shop because most of what's on offer there is also crap!
All IMHO, of course!

granturismo

Their weather forecast is the only decent one on any channel. Unlike the other UK based stations, Sky News acknowledge that the 26 counties exist and give a decent forecast; the Irish stations give a much less accurate forecast and poor 3-5 day forecast.

Elmo

Richard Dower wrote: »

And they are movie stars!...how many Fox movies have featured Sky news presenters?....Independence Day, Volcano, Mission Impossible....and others!

It depends on the Movie and how is producing it!

Sky News is really just a microcosm of TV in general. Apart from the BBC (and perhaps CH. Four), 90% of TV is basically crap.

You can't even get any respite from your local video shop because most of what's on offer there is also crap!
All IMHO, of course!

IMO 90% of TV is crap at the moment and Hollywood movies also have that ratio. But then I am going off topic.

Dozen Wicked Words

Trouser_Press wrote: »

With comments of that intellect I would have thought Sky and Fox were right up your street.

Touché! I wasn't overly satirical was I? Not PC or in the least bit subtle? That is probably spending too much time on AH. Sorry!

But, you only have to look at who Fox (and over here, at Sky Sports News) employ (particularly the females) to see it has nothing to do with their ability to read auto-cue and everything to do with what they look like.

Keano

I put on Sky News at night before I fall asleep. Great to make me sleep.

greendom

Sleipnir wrote: »

The Sun - Owned by News International which is owned by News Corporation,which is controlled by Rupert Murdoch.

Anyone seeing the pattern here?

They do own The Times as well don't forget.

Mossy Monk

George Galloway is a ****

Hardrain

Give it 2 or 3 years and sky news will be a carbon copy of FOX news. Ever so slowly the FOX model is creeping in.

ynotdu

Mossy Monk wrote: »

George Galloway is a ****

Why is that Mossy? because he oppossed the Iraq war?and after the invasion was complete amongst the wreckage of the shock and awe tactics amazingly only documents linking him to Saddam giving him 'brown envelopes' to speak for the other sides point of view were found,with camera's present,how unlucky for him:){how conveniant for Blair&Bush}

Or was it because he had the balls to defend himself against the Republican dominated congress farce of an investigation into the whole affair{and made mincemeat of them!}

or is it that he works for Al Jazeera?

Or is it that he dressed up as a pussycat on celebrity big brother

Thargor

I spent the day in bed with the flu watching Sky News the other day and they were waiting breathlessly from 9am in the morning for 12 hours for a bridge to collapse in England, it was so pathethic it was funny.

nullzero

Sky News = Repeaters.
Repeat something enough times and it become a fact, just ask Rupert Murdoch.
Chewing gum for the eyes.
Breaking News: David Beckham is suffering from chronic constipation, world cup place in jeopardy, leading bowel doctor to be interviewed shortly, blah blah blah.

ConsiderThis

As someone who doesn't watch sky News channel, and has not done so for a number of years now due to its piss poor and sensationalist reporting, I am left wondering why so many in this thread seem to watch the channel and then complain about how they dislike it!

Would anyone who watches the channel, and then professes to dislike it, care to comment on why they do that?

lord lucan

I still enjoy watching Sky News. I've always been a news fiend,could watch the news for hours on end. I agree that Sky News has become more tabloid in nature,particularly over the last couple of years. One of my favourites used to be Kay Burley but lately she's turned into an out and out bully,harassing interviewees in cringeworthy fashion. I find myself reaching for the mute button a lot these days.

I like that Sky will run breaking news on reliable information,unlike BBC who wait for confirmation from AP/Reuters etc. I don't like that there's an undertone of almost glee at natural disasters,sky flooding(no pun intended) areas with journos in waders and wellys. The comment a few posts previous is very true sadly about waiting for a bridge to crumble.

My favourite programme on sky news right now is SkyNews.com,an interesting twist on the news online.

Mossy Monk

ynotdu wrote: »

Why is that Mossy? because he oppossed the Iraq war?and after the invasion was complete amongst the wreckage of the shock and awe tactics amazingly only documents linking him to Saddam giving him 'brown envelopes' to speak for the other sides point of view were found,with camera's present,how unlucky for him:){how conveniant for Blair&Bush}

Or was it because he had the balls to defend himself against the Republican dominated congress farce of an investigation into the whole affair{and made mincemeat of them!}

or is it that he works for Al Jazeera?

Or is it that he dressed up as a pussycat on celebrity big brother

You aren't going to paint me with that brush. Anytime I have ever heard him I have found him to be a pig.

I too oppose the war in Iraq.

I also watch Al Jazeera.

I don't watch Celebrity Big Brother.

You have failed in your attempt to ridicule. You should get used to some people not sharing the same likes and dislikes as yourself.