The BBC should be ashamed of themselves.

AMKC · 21-04-2021 01:20PM #1

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.

21-04-2021 01:23PM

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 · 21-04-2021 01:23PM

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 · 21-04-2021 01:23PM

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 · 21-04-2021 01:24PM

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 · 21-04-2021 01:25PM

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 · 21-04-2021 01:25PM

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 · 21-04-2021 01:26PM

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 · 21-04-2021 01:27PM

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 · 21-04-2021 01:29PM

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 · 21-04-2021 01:32PM

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 · 21-04-2021 01:34PM

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.

21-04-2021 01:35PM

Foreign news on a foreign TV channel.

Better things to be annoyed about

completedit · 21-04-2021 02:10PM

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 · 21-04-2021 02:19PM

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 · 21-04-2021 02:20PM

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 · 21-04-2021 02:45PM

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 · 21-04-2021 02:45PM

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 · 21-04-2021 04:23PM

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 · 21-04-2021 04:45PM

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 · 21-04-2021 04:49PM

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

21-04-2021 04:51PM

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 · 21-04-2021 04:51PM

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 · 21-04-2021 04:53PM

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?

21-04-2021 04:57PM

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 · 21-04-2021 04:58PM

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 · 21-04-2021 05:00PM

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 · 21-04-2021 05:04PM

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 · 21-04-2021 05:16PM

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 · 21-04-2021 05:19PM

Larbre34 wrote: »

Good on the BBC.

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

SeanW · 21-04-2021 05:24PM

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:

The BBC should be ashamed of themselves.

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