Slough Seagull
Bye Bye Slough
- Nov 23, 2006
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... how anyone can watch more than five minutes of that shite without wanting to throw the TV out the window is beyond me...and that was before 'Jacko' died...
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Sky News - an embarrassment
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Tricky Dicky
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Some of the weather girls are rather nice !
Austrian Gull
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I only seem to see Francis Wilson...
captainmorganrum
Wrexham
Austrian Gull
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Most of the vistims are from The Comores, a group of islands near Madagascar. A lot probably have dual French/Comores nationality. They were on a flight from Paris and changed planes in Yemen.
Apparentzly, the Yemeni airline whose plane crashed should be on a black list of dangerous airlines but a black list only exists in the EU.
Uncle Spielberg
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Get over it. Michael Jackson's death is big news and will continue to be so for some time yet. Everyone knows Human life is not valued equally. Jackson is a far more important death than 99.9999999% of humanity as far as the media are concerned. An African childs early death for example is completely un newsworthy as will be our demise. Just another statistic.
The Ringleader
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twats.
Tricky Dicky
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Yep, always nice to have warm front in the morning!
Indeed - it was the lovely Lucy I was thinking of. But I also have a penchant for Isobel Lang, but she is a little older I think.
Tricky Dicky
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Who exactly is it big news to though ? I've not spoken to anyone who cares. Ok, some actual fans will, but generally who else ? I'm not saying it shouldn't be a news item, but there are more important things going on.
Porky
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Why does Austrian Gull think it's just Sky News. The whole of the media are having a mass orgasm What a bunch of sycophants. {Is that the right word}
Austrian Gull
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Of course it's big news. Of course it will get priority over a plane crash or a train explosion killing "ordinary" poeple.
My point is it's almost a week later. Nothing of any interest is happening yet we still get live on-the-spot reports. Do Sky not feel it's time to give people an idea about what's happening in the world? The world still goes on without Michael Jackson.
Austrian Gull
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But that's not true. By Sunday here, other stories were making the headlines and MJ was no longer the main story.
Sky get my wrath because they're my main source of TV news from the UK - and they're becoming a TV equivalent of OK/Heat magazine. I'm not sure they used to be as bad a few years ago.
captainmorganrum
Wrexham
clapham_gull
Legacy Fan
- Aug 20, 2003
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To be honest, it's not the story it would have been a few years ago.
The story has now turned to his family, the debt etc... When you seen footage of him moonwalking once, quite frankly you've seen it a million times.
He was pretty much finished as an artist. In retrospect he didn't leave a huge body of work either. There is only so many times the news can tell you what a good album thriller was.
There is also very little footage of him singing live. When did he last give a "live" performance on stage ? Actually singing live.
Even the classic moonwalking Billy Jean performance from the 80s was mimed.
Highly over rated musician, his attraction more to do with the image of Jackson as portrayed by him and "his people" rather than his musical ability.
Yes he could dance, but so can Wayne Sleep.
Tricky Dicky
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Yes indeed, nice legs that Isobel
Absolutely, I think I'm a bit of a sucker for redheads really.
KZNSeagull
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Am with you all the way on this one!! I also watch Sky News a lot but I now dont really bother when something like this happens. Last night I watched about 10 minutes just to see if they were reporting anything else. No was the answer!! I find Sky News to be incredibly Tabloid now, in that they have to be the first to break everything that happens and then analyse it to death. Dont quite know why this is. What is it with the "All the news in 15 minutes, every 15 minutes" during the evenings - all the news is not 4 stories and some sport and weather.
Totally agree re the Kay Burley thing - she could actually be anywhere -maybe they think that something even bigger is going to break re MJ and they have to be on the spot when it happens. I would not like to count the number of times that Sky presenters say "lets go over to x for the latest" and there is no latest - they just repeat what they told us 2 minutes ago. I am yet to understand why Adam Boulton had to spend the first 100 days of Obama's Presidency in the US either.
All I can think is that they are trying to justify their fees or think that chasing awards is their main objective, rather than keeping their viewers fully informed of all news.
The most annoying thing about them is that they say "you can continue watching other news by pressing the Red Button" - not when you're out of the UK you can't!!
But the most annoying thing of all, is that they never show the League 1 footie scores!!
