The BBC should be ashamed of themselves.

AMKC

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.

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.

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?

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.

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.

Hurrache

martinedwards wrote: »

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.

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.

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.

A handy distinction is that one doesn't require a licence to thrill.

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).

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.

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?

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.

Foreign news on a foreign TV channel.

Better things to be annoyed about

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.

ancapailldorcha

Deleted User wrote: »

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.

ancapailldorcha

completedit wrote: »

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.

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.

Church on Tuesday

ancapailldorcha wrote: »

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.

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.

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.

Pandiculation

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

AMKC

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.

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.

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?

ancapailldorcha

ancapailldorcha wrote: »

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.

Capt'n Midnight

Harry Palmr wrote: »

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

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

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.

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.

ILoveYourVibes

Larbre34 wrote: »

Good on the BBC.

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

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:

ILoveYourVibes

ILoveYourVibes wrote: »

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.

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

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.

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 ?

AMKC

completedit wrote: »

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.

AMKC

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.

Zaph

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.

AMKC

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

ILoveYourVibes

Deleted User wrote: »

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.

AMKC

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.

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

billyhead

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

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

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.

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.

fryup

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

Wallet Inspector

ILoveYourVibes wrote: »

Yup.

I guess they are worried about their own police.

You guess who are worried about which police?

ILoveYourVibes

Wallet Inspector wrote: »

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.

ILoveYourVibes

ILoveYourVibes wrote: »

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

ILoveYourVibes

Deleted User wrote: »

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.