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The BBC should be ashamed of themselves.

  • 21-04-2021 12:20pm
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    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,430 ✭✭✭✭
    Ms


    So on there one news they done 10 minutes on some stupid Superleague nonsense and a totally none story if you ask me as well as such a waste of airtime and good film and only 4 minutes on the story of George Flydes killer been found guilty and which deserved far more airtime.

    You should be ashamed BBC a disgrace.

    Live long and Prosper

    Peace and long life.



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  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    Meh. American news.. we really should be having less of it overall.

    4 minutes on GF's killer would be more than enough.. it's all old news anyway, and anyone interested would be getting their updates from social media or online sources.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,045 ✭✭✭martinedwards


    one is a story with people protesting on the streets of the UK,

    One is a story about a trial in a country 3000 miles away that doesn't involve any British cirizens.

    what about RTE?

    how did they report it?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,553 ✭✭✭KevRossi


    Everytime I see BBC I have to double check as to the real meaning of the acronym in this context. It seems here we are talking about the British Broadcasting Corporation.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,289 ✭✭✭Howard the Duck


    One is an American news story and one is British. Also probably most people in the UK are more interested in the football story. There is plenty of coverage of the Floyd story in the media.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,331 ✭✭✭✭Hurrache



    what about RTE?

    how did they report it?


    Top story on the News at 1. Jesus christ, the obsession with English soccer in this country is ridiculous.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,803 ✭✭✭✭Timberrrrrrrr


    AMKC wrote: »
    So on there one news they done 10 minutes on some stupid Superleague nonsense and a totally none story if you ask me as well as such a waste of airtime and good film and only 4 minutes on the story of George Flydes killer been found guilty and which deserved far more airtime.

    You should be ashamed BBC a disgrace.

    BBC reporting on something that affects millions of supporters of the national game versus BBC reporting on something that happened 3000 miles away and doesn't affect British people.

    Im sure there are better things to be doing on a lovely Wednesday afternoon than be upset about this.


  • Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 19,945 Mod ✭✭✭✭Leg End Reject


    KevRossi wrote: »
    Everytime I see BBC I have to double check as to the real meaning of the acronym in this context. It seems here we are talking about the British Broadcasting Corporation.
    :D
    A handy distinction is that one doesn't require a licence to thrill.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 941 ✭✭✭JPup


    It's the British broadcasting corporation, so will naturally spend more time on a domestic story than an international one of comparable public interest (which is the case here in my opinion).


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,182 ✭✭✭✭listermint


    AMKC wrote: »
    So on there one news they done 10 minutes on some stupid Superleague nonsense and a totally none story if you ask me as well as such a waste of airtime and good film and only 4 minutes on the story of George Flydes killer been found guilty and which deserved far more airtime.

    You should be ashamed BBC a disgrace.

    Three out of ten. Slightly too subtle.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 601 ✭✭✭iffandonlyif


    AMKC wrote: »
    So on there one news they done 10 minutes on some stupid Superleague nonsense and a totally none story if you ask me as well as such a waste of airtime and good film and only 4 minutes on the story of George Flydes killer been found guilty and which deserved far more airtime.

    You should be ashamed BBC a disgrace.

    Were you in a rush?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,567 ✭✭✭✭Strumms


    AMKC wrote: »
    So on there one news they done 10 minutes on some stupid Superleague nonsense and a totally none story if you ask me as well as such a waste of airtime and good film and only 4 minutes on the story of George Flydes killer been found guilty and which deserved far more airtime.

    You should be ashamed BBC a disgrace.

    Superleague affects England, English teams, people, supporters. So an English broadcaster has a duty and want to report on it.

    George Floyd was killed 5000 miles away in a different continent, different country. A tragedy certainly but it’s received a million hours of coverage. The situation is being used in the now, politically as much as socially.


  • Posts: 133 ✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Foreign news on a foreign TV channel.

    Better things to be annoyed about


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,639 ✭✭✭completedit


    You lack the intellectual capacity to be able to understand the broader and deeper implications of the Super League Announcement. I imagine you felt quite smug when this little brainchild came to you.


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 41,479 CMod ✭✭✭✭ancapailldorcha


    Meh. American news.. we really should be having less of it overall.

    4 minutes on GF's killer would be more than enough.. it's all old news anyway, and anyone interested would be getting their updates from social media or online sources.

    I disagree. The Floyd incident sparked a wave of protests around the world that directly affected the UK.

    Compare that to the farcical amount of time spent fawning over Prince Philip.

    The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt. I am the LORD your God.

    Leviticus 19:34



  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 41,479 CMod ✭✭✭✭ancapailldorcha


    You lack the intellectual capacity to be able to understand the broader and deeper implications of the Super League Announcement. I imagine you felt quite smug when this little brainchild came to you.

    What exactly is the hubub about this? Surely billionaire soccerball club owners squeezing the fans for cash is nothing new.

    The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt. I am the LORD your God.

    Leviticus 19:34



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,711 ✭✭✭✭murpho999


    Hurrache wrote: »
    Top story on the News at 1. Jesus christ, the obsession with English soccer in this country is ridiculous.

    No, it's about European football and not just English football.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,858 ✭✭✭Church on Tuesday


    What exactly is the hubub about this? Surely billionaire soccerball club owners squeezing the fans for cash is nothing new.

    A lack of competition and sporting merit. The ESL was supposed to be a boys own club of elite clubs from Europe not just England, essentially replacing the UEFA Champions League. With the ESL there would be no relegations and no qualifying for the competition unless you were one of the big 12 founder clubs in Europe (some five token places I think were to be given to clubs who may qualify but that was, at best, not made very clear as to how exactly they would qualify). They would just play each other over and over again season after season regardless of how poor any particular club would be in their domestic league whilst by passing the usual TV outlets for more in house money and lucrative deals.

    So the winner of the LOI for example would not be able to qualify for that European competition (as they can do with the Champions League qualifying rounds and the secondary competition, the Europa League currently) which basically makes a mockery of the sport and the idea that any club can, in theory, qualify or win any tournament once they progress up the football ladder.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 40,061 ✭✭✭✭Harry Palmr


    The BBC has given loads of airtime to that American murder trial, the point of news is that you cover what matters to most people in a given moment in your market. Yesterday it was the ESL. Just a case of timing.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,402 ✭✭✭McGinniesta


    AMKC wrote: »
    So on there one news they done 10 minutes on some stupid Superleague nonsense and a totally none story if you ask me as well as such a waste of airtime and good film and only 4 minutes on the story of George Flydes killer been found guilty and which deserved far more airtime.

    You should be ashamed BBC a disgrace.

    Theyve been talking about George Floyd for months.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 309 ✭✭Pandiculation


    I'd hate to be working at the complaints department at the BBC.


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  • Posts: 3,801 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    AMKC wrote: »
    So on there one news they done 10 minutes on some stupid Superleague nonsense and a totally none story if you ask me as well as such a waste of airtime and good film and only 4 minutes on the story of George Flydes killer been found guilty and which deserved far more airtime.

    You should be ashamed BBC a disgrace.

    The BBC is a disgrace. But not because it has decided, for once, to not concentrate on the clown show that is the US.


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 94,288 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    Before SKY the BBC and ITV used to show the big matches for free.

    This new super duper mega league was to be another walled garden financed by billions from JP Morgan. So they'd have to make all that money back from the fans. It was a cash grab that would affect every soccer fan in Europe and lots more worldwide.



    US police kill people most days. Today it was a 16 year old girl. Earlier it was someone tasered with a gun.

    Mass shootings are also regular. This week's one was at FedEx. The Boomtown Rat's I don't Like Mondays was released in 1979.


  • Registered Users, Subscribers, Registered Users 2 Posts: 47,365 ✭✭✭✭Zaph


    How much longer would you have liked the BBC to devote to the trial verdict? And what more would have been learned from that extra time?


  • Posts: 3,801 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I disagree. The Floyd incident sparked a wave of protests around the world that directly affected the UK.

    Compare that to the farcical amount of time spent fawning over Prince Philip.

    It sparked a few protests in parts of the world colonised by US cultural imperialism. Northern Europe mainly.

    Black lives in the US aren’t anymore important than the lives of people elsewhere in the world, which the BBC covers only when it’s making a propaganda effort.


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 94,288 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    The BBC has given loads of airtime to that American murder trial, the point of news is that you cover what matters to most people in a given moment in your market. Yesterday it was the ESL. Just a case of timing.
    Newspapers didn't have a way to know what people looked at, then along came the internets and now The Daily Mail knows what articles people click on and what they don't and adjust the paper to suit.

    BBC do the same too. Channel 4's charter means they can't do lowest common denominator stuff so ITN who do their news (and Channel 5's too) can have a different slant at times.

    And the public wants what the public gets
    But I don't get what this society wants
    I'm going underground
    - Paul Weller


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,154 ✭✭✭✭Del2005


    They had hours of live coverage of the trial and had the juries results as their main headline when it happened. In the 24 hour news cycle George Floyd is old news.

    Why aren't you complaining about the lack of coverage of the deaths of hundreds of Africans nearly daily instead of the huge coverage the deaths a few Americans get? Or is Black Lives Matter only American Black Lives Matter


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,222 ✭✭✭✭Larbre34


    Good on the BBC.

    The likes of Sky News leaving endless hours of courtroom coverage from a far flung jurisdiction running is just painful. Yes, put it on the red button and online for those that are rightly interested, but its not British or even European news. Of course its a serious issue, but its one mainly of dysfunction in law enforcement in the United States.

    Give the people what they want, not saturated coverage of issues that aren't high on their agenda.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,211 ✭✭✭✭ILoveYourVibes


    AMKC wrote: »
    So on there one news they done 10 minutes on some stupid Superleague nonsense and a totally none story if you ask me as well as such a waste of airtime and good film and only 4 minutes on the story of George Flydes killer been found guilty and which deserved far more airtime.

    You should be ashamed BBC a disgrace.
    Yup.

    I guess they are worried about their own police.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,211 ✭✭✭✭ILoveYourVibes


    Larbre34 wrote: »
    Good on the BBC.
    Do you say this when they don't report on riots in NI?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,275 ✭✭✭SeanW


    AMKC wrote: »
    So on there one news they done 10 minutes on some stupid Superleague nonsense and a totally none story if you ask me as well as such a waste of airtime and good film and only 4 minutes on the story of George Flydes killer been found guilty and which deserved far more airtime.

    You should be ashamed BBC a disgrace.
    British broadcaster spends time on British story that was of serious interest to British people. How horrifying! :eek:

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  • Posts: 3,801 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Do you say this when they don't report on riots in NI?

    That would be within their purview. Exactly what they should be reporting.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,071 ✭✭✭MarkY91


    Hurrache wrote: »
    Top story on the News at 1. Jesus christ, the obsession with English soccer in this country is ridiculous.

    Yeah. Bunch of eejits obsessed with the biggest league in the biggest sport on Earth. Fools :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,331 ✭✭✭✭Hurrache


    murpho999 wrote: »
    No, it's about European football and not just English football.

    The hand wringing and crying was all about the 6 English teams.
    MarkY91 wrote: »
    Yeah. Bunch of eejits obsessed with the biggest league in the biggest sport on Earth. Fools :)

    I agree.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,800 ✭✭✭Dr. Bre


    AMKC wrote: »
    So on there one news they done 10 minutes on some stupid Superleague nonsense and a totally none story if you ask me as well as such a waste of airtime and good film and only 4 minutes on the story of George Flydes killer been found guilty and which deserved far more airtime.

    You should be ashamed BBC a disgrace.

    Outraged much ?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,430 ✭✭✭✭AMKC
    Ms


    You lack the intellectual capacity to be able to understand the broader and deeper implications of the Super League Announcement. I imagine you felt quite smug when this little brainchild came to you.

    Not that I lack what you say just that I simply do not care about it.

    Live long and Prosper

    Peace and long life.



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  • Posts: 220 ✭✭ [Deleted User]


    AMKC wrote: »
    So on there one news they done 10 minutes on some stupid Superleague nonsense and a totally none story if you ask me as well as such a waste of airtime and good film and only 4 minutes on the story of George Flydes killer been found guilty and which deserved far more airtime.

    You should be ashamed BBC a disgrace.

    I, too, am outraged that a country's national broadcaster broadcast a story of major importance to that country's economy and culture ahead of a story about a court case in a far-away foreign nation.


  • Posts: 5,518 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Zaph wrote: »
    How much longer would you have liked the BBC to devote to the trial verdict? And what more would have been learned from that extra time?

    That’s it in a nutshell.

    The murder and trial were ongoing stories. The conviction is the end of it. The BBC covered it all and there’s not much more that can be added.

    The ESL is a fresh ongoing story, so it is going to get more coverage now.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,430 ✭✭✭✭AMKC
    Ms


    Thankfully RTE One O'Clock news had the right story first the one about Derrick Chevion been convicted so fair play to RTE.

    Live long and Prosper

    Peace and long life.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,211 ✭✭✭✭ILoveYourVibes


    That would be within their purview. Exactly what they should be reporting.
    Not from their point of view. They want to report what serves them. I.E the establishment.


  • Posts: 3,801 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    AMKC wrote: »
    Thankfully RTE One O'Clock news had the right story first the one about Derrick Chevion been convicted so fair play to RTE.

    Your mind is colonised.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,067 ✭✭✭✭fryup


    I'm sure the BBC management are putting together an apology for you right now OP

    to be read out on the News tonight


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,435 ✭✭✭✭billyhead


    Op. Honestly. Are you really upset over this. Lockdown is having a terrible effect on people.


  • Posts: 6,192 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    The coverage of this was bit OTT anyway....the result,(despite the views of pure gowls on the internet) was never in doubt


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,969 ✭✭✭✭alchemist33


    Complaining about how much time is devoted to news coverage of stories is nearly worse than clickbait at this stage. It's a pointless exercise.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,456 ✭✭✭✭Tony EH


    If the BBC had spent 10 minutes on the Floyd case and 4 minutes on the superleague fiasco, there probably would have been a thread started about that as well.

    :pac:


    In any way, the Floyd trial is over, there's really not that much that can be said that hasn't been said already.


  • Posts: 3,689 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    fryup wrote: »
    I'm sure the BBC management are putting together an apology for you right now OP

    to be read out on the News tonight

    And on BBC Radio 4.

    A solemn, serious apology just for YOU.

    Don't forget to buy the upcoming Radio Times print magazine as well OP.

    Good man yoursel


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 252 ✭✭Wallet Inspector


    Yup.

    I guess they are worried about their own police.
    You guess who are worried about which police?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,211 ✭✭✭✭ILoveYourVibes


    You guess who are worried about which police?
    I guess the british govt/establishment are worried about their own police.

    And that might at some point be germane to NI too.


  • Posts: 6,192 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I guess the british govt/establishment are worried about their own police.

    And that might at some point be germane to NI too.

    they are in their arse worried.....mi5 operates in the north with zero oversight


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,211 ✭✭✭✭ILoveYourVibes


    they are in their arse worried.....mi5 operates in the north with zero oversight

    They do.
    The actual army are there now too.
    Im not sure they would want people to start complaining about this and taking it up as a cause though.


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