The best war coverage

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The battle is on from the main UK channels to bring you the best war coverage from iraq, but which one do u think is the best.

I myself think ITV and Sky News have been excellent.

KdjaCL

Euronews.
No propaganda tells it like it is.

kdjac

azezil

Sky News, interactive, and i'm just waiting to see a reported been blown to bits

mike65

Thats a rather narrow selection of channels in this age, I've been watching a mix of all the news stations on NTL
Digital plus terrestrial so I'm completely confused by this stage! I think BBC World is the soberest, RTE lack the recources so seem slighly remote. Sky has been
pretty good, I imagine its sister in the States, Fox News
is quite different in tone...

Mike.

byte

Mainly Sky News for me, with occasional BBC World, MSNBC on CNBC and CNN. Don't like Fox News much.

Mossy Monk

i've been watching mainly ITV News, CNN and MSNBC on CNBC(both when i'm in bed) Euronews and FOX News. i've been looking in on BBC World every now and again. i am avoiding Sky News because of their incredible use of on screen graphics. it is a lot more prominent to me than any other

Mercury_Tilt

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Tusky

euronews...

mike65

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/2875969.stm

i am avoiding Sky News because of their incredible use of on screen graphics. it is a lot more prominent to me than any other

Those "straps" are a ****ing pain, severasl times the presenter has asked for them to be removed ass they obscure information. On CNBC (I think) at one point they had about 4 on screen graphics and 4 mini screens on display - the result was unwatchable!

Mike.

irishgeo

Originally posted by azezil
Sky News, interactive, and i'm just waiting to see a reported been blown to bits

me too. **EDITIED IN RESPECT OF THE ITV CREW MISSING***


I reckon the best war coverage is the US and UK military who only tell you what you the reporters what they are allowded to report. i have a image in my head of a solider standing behind the camera with a gun incase they break MOD reporting restrictions saying "Go on say something your not supposed to".

The worst peiece was the women on board the USS warship as it fired towahawk missiles. Like we really needed to see a grainy picture of a load of smoke and fire and to hear she was using a red light to broadcast as the ship was in total darkness.

what happened when they finshed,did they walk back in the dark.

She could have fallen off.

Havent seen any RTE coverage yet but must watch the 6 o clock news.

Originally posted by irishgeo
yeah imagine if a cruise missle just blew them up what would they say.

There are four ITV News journalists missing after being fired on today.

BBC News 24 and ITV news are the ones I watch.

I find, that Irish army officer that turns up on RTÉ'S nine o clock news to give us the benefit of his analysis (based on his considerable knowledge of invading countries) to be pretty embarrassingly Bad...:eek: and Anne Doyle gives him a smile, at the end of each interview she does with him.
I think she fancies, the auld lad:D
mm

daveirl

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Winters

I dont like Sky News at all. Has always annoyed me. BBC is id say the best coverage. Its always there even if you dont have BBC News24.
Channel4 are usually good but BBC does have the edge. ITV is crap and so is RTE. Come on its fun when they relay the CNN stuff but then for some reason they cut it off to repeat Open House :eek: :mad:

Euronews has always been a great channel. Pity RTE dont relay it 24/7

The Gopher

For me ITV has been number 1.IMO it has had great coverage.Far more good quality pics rather than crap videophone(they seem to be the only channel not using this too often).And today they had the best quality footage of the raids last night.BTW some of their reporters are MIA after an incident.
As for the rest

RTE-Quite good I think,though have not watched much of it.

BBC-Second best.Very good and they have coverage on BBC 1 or 2 practtically 24 hours.

Sky News-I am a little disappointed.They rely on crap videophone which is usless.Also,the satellite stations seem to preoccupied with showing us poor quality night vision footage.This provides us with nothing 90% of the time-we see lights and even the reporters do not know what the lights are.And they are depending too much on live coverage-some more pre filmed reports would be good.

Euronews-Have not caught much but I like the No Comment footage which shows us a good long look at what is going on without immeadiately cutting to other footage.

Have not watched Fox News,perhaps because I can tell wihth out watching what it would be like.I like Fox but it is very nationalistic and biased.

But I would have to give most credit to ITV.Despite the fatc it has been dumbing further down lately in terms of news coverage they deserve praise for the work they are currently doing.With BBC second.

Also,did anybody else think it almost chuldish the way that the morning after the first strike on Baghdad we had all these reporters(mainly on sky)doing live reports in gas masks?I thought it was more attention seeking than anything,despite the danger.

irishgeo

I edited my post in respect for the ITV news crew mssing in iraq.

Risking their lives just so we know what the military dont want us to hear.

Jesus H Christ

I think sky news is the way to go. It's pretty unbiased, at least it tries to be as much as it can. I watch the american ones every now and then for a laugh. Talk about propaganda like. I like the interactive on sky as well, you watch what's happening in iraq while reading about other news

KdjaCL

Euronews has its won channel on Sky Digital unrelated but that No Comment can be very powerful sometimes.

kdjac

jank

bbc by far

skynews what a joke they almost treat it like a tv drama show

havent seen any from euro news yet but i expect them to be good and unbiased

imagine what they have to watch in the states
skynews *10
(foxnews's showdown with sadamm cliche)

Tusky

i started off by watching sky news but im starting to think.....

sky news are showing it like a film... should this be a source of entertainment ?

Manach

Sky news, at least not as jingoistic as CNN.

The Gopher

Euronews now gets my vote as no other channel(bar Al Jazeera,which is encrypted on sky unfortunately)showed the footage of the US POWs.I find it disgusting that the rest will not show this embarrasing incident on moral grounds but will readily show film of US/UK soldiers searching Iraqis who are captured.Euronews was the only channel to show the soldiers speaking without their faces obscured.All other channels either showed nothing,showed film but no audio or obscured faces.It is news for christ sake and they should not choose this self censorship route.Fox(obviously)ITN,BBC all refused to show anything.Sky showed obscured faces and no audio.
Some channels claimed it was so that families would not find out about missing reltives via tv.Personally i think that the failure to show the footage will cause undue worry to thousands of families who know they had relatives fighting in Nasiriyah and have not heard from them since.I would rather find out this news on tv if i were a relative rather than somebody coming to my door at all hours slowly spluttering out the truth after I have waited hours for confirmation.I would imagine tv viewers in Europe found out about this before the families!

SheroN

ehh there's a bit of a difference in showing POW's coralled in barbed wire from a distance and interviewing POWs? not to mention broadcasting pictures of mangled corpses?

sceptre

ITV have a lot to prove - there was an article in today's Guardian about that, tied into Terry Lloyd being killed. They've dropped their independent teams as you can see from the article. I was pretty appalled watching the beeb on Friday or Saturday night - they went rather gung ho for about an hour.

The dedicated screen on Sky news Active showing the Baghdad skyline 24/7 is pretty compelling viewing. A little more subtle than Fox deciding to show it all day Thursday due to their missing an early raid.

daveirl

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