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I've given up watching the "national" news on BBC or ITV. It really
should be called "international news only". We've had news about airliners crashing into the desert, and in Ukraine, then there's something going on with Jews and Arabs again in Gaza. Anyone would think the UK doesn't exist! I think the first news on the national news should be British news, except in very exceptional circumstances like 9/11 or WW3 breaking out. The international news can come second. We need British news for British people! |
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On 26/07/14 22:44, Joe Egginton wrote:
I've given up watching the "national" news on BBC or ITV. It really should be called "international news only". We've had news about airliners crashing into the desert, and in Ukraine, then there's something going on with Jews and Arabs again in Gaza. Anyone would think the UK doesn't exist! I think the first news on the national news should be British news, except in very exceptional circumstances like 9/11 or WW3 breaking out. The international news can come second. We need British news for British people! I hear Lewis Hamilton didn't make pole position. |
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On Saturday, 26 July 2014 22:53:38 UTC+1, White Spirit wrote:
On 26/07/14 22:44, Joe Egginton wrote: I've given up watching the "national" news on BBC or ITV. It really should be called "international news only". We've had news about airliners crashing into the desert, and in Ukraine, then there's something going on with Jews and Arabs again in Gaza. Anyone would think the UK doesn't exist! I think the first news on the national news should be British news, except in very exceptional circumstances like 9/11 or WW3 breaking out. The international news can come second. We need British news for British people! I hear Lewis Hamilton didn't make pole position. Don't mention ze poles! |
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On 26/07/14 22:44, Joe Egginton wrote:
I've given up watching the "national" news on BBC or ITV. It really should be called "international news only". We've had news about airliners crashing into the desert, and in Ukraine, then there's something going on with Jews and Arabs again in Gaza. Anyone would think the UK doesn't exist! I think the first news on the national news should be British news, except in very exceptional circumstances like 9/11 or WW3 breaking out. The international news can come second. We need British news for British people! It's a smaller world now, and the international news is of major interest to most businesses- very few UK businesses don't rely on foreign imports or exports. Though I agree with much of the sentiment, particularly with regards to the arts- comedy and pop music are two areas that don't cross the Atlantic easily both ways and the British variety has often suffered at the expense of the US-based media industry. Would be nice to see a much a greater local emphasis on the BBC as a whole- there's a lot of excellent local content around on the net that's better than what they are airing. The same is true of America to an even worse extent, and there hasn't been half the necessary political will to keep media local. Ironically, the worst offenders are often the so called "nationalists" who don't like those involved in British culture- because they're almost always liberals. They prefer the crude ethnic divisions of Hollywood because despite it being irrelevant in modern Britain, it fits their own prejudices. Sad. |
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![]() "Joe Egginton" wrote in message ... At first I thought you were giving up posting here. Unfortunately that is not the case. -- Col Bolton, Lancashire 160m asl Snow videos: http://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3QvmL4UWBmHFMKWiwYm_gg |
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On 26/07/2014 22:44, Joe Egginton wrote:
I've given up watching the "national" news on BBC or ITV. It really should be called "international news only". We've had news about airliners crashing into the desert, and in Ukraine, then there's something going on with Jews and Arabs again in Gaza. Anyone would think the UK doesn't exist! I think the first news on the national news should be British news, except in very exceptional circumstances like 9/11 or WW3 breaking out. The international news can come second. We need British news for British people! But to some people it is British news. A lot of them live over here now! jim |
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On 27/07/2014 22:47, jbm wrote:
On 26/07/2014 22:44, Joe Egginton wrote: I've given up watching the "national" news on BBC or ITV. It really should be called "international news only". We've had news about airliners crashing into the desert, and in Ukraine, then there's something going on with Jews and Arabs again in Gaza. Anyone would think the UK doesn't exist! I think the first news on the national news should be British news, except in very exceptional circumstances like 9/11 or WW3 breaking out. The international news can come second. We need British news for British people! But to some people it is British news. A lot of them live over here now! jim Those born in this country are not ancestral British. Secondly, there's BBC World News for them. |
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On Sun, 27 Jul 2014 22:47:25 +0100, jbm wrote:
On 26/07/2014 22:44, Joe Egginton wrote: I've given up watching the "national" news on BBC or ITV. It really should be called "international news only". We've had news about airliners crashing into the desert, and in Ukraine, then there's something going on with Jews and Arabs again in Gaza. Anyone would think the UK doesn't exist! I think the first news on the national news should be British news, except in very exceptional circumstances like 9/11 or WW3 breaking out. The international news can come second. We need British news for British people! But to some people it is British news. A lot of them live over here now! Palestinians? There are only about 20,000 of them here. |
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On Sun, 27 Jul 2014 23:30:40 +0100, Joe Egginton
wrote: On 27/07/2014 22:47, jbm wrote: On 26/07/2014 22:44, Joe Egginton wrote: I've given up watching the "national" news on BBC or ITV. It really should be called "international news only". We've had news about airliners crashing into the desert, and in Ukraine, then there's something going on with Jews and Arabs again in Gaza. Anyone would think the UK doesn't exist! I think the first news on the national news should be British news, except in very exceptional circumstances like 9/11 or WW3 breaking out. The international news can come second. We need British news for British people! But to some people it is British news. A lot of them live over here now! jim Those born in this country are not ancestral British. Secondly, there's BBC World News for them. So who we do the news for? Not for any Vikings or Normans... |
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