Sky News - an embarrassment

[Austrian Gull]

Settled down this evening to catch up with what's going on in the world after a busy few days for me recently only to find that Sky News are still reporting live from California on Michael Jackson.

For the 10 minutes I watched, this was their only story. They've even sent out Kate Burley - like Kate Adie only for grief-stricken events.

Switched over to the Austrian 10 o'clock news and found out that 18 people had been killed in Italy when a goods train exploded and that over 150 people are missing presumed dead after a plane crash in the Indian Ocean.

Are these stories really so irrelevant to Sky News and its viewers that they don't deserve to be mentioned?

I was saddened by Jackson's death but the analysis five days later is totally out of proportion IMHO.

 

[blue and white army]

Michael Jackson wife said it's the worst news she's had since her parents left her in Portugal.

 

[imissworthing2]

Yeah 1 death is far more important that 150 I suppose.

 

[bigc]

Talking of that Italian train crash, I visited Viareggio a fair few times when on holiday in Italy many years ago, it was quite a nice if unassuming place. Sad to see it today in the news in that way.

 

[Billy the Fish]

Michael Jackson wife said it's the worst news she's had since her parents left her in Portugal.

I've not heard that one yet

 

[Andrew]

Sad news about Italy

Heres a interesting story about Michael Jackson:

Michael may not have died of a heart attack, he walked down stairs and had a stroke in the children's ward.

 

[NF9]

Sad news about Italy

Heres a interesting story about Michael Jackson:

Michael may not have died of a heart attack, he walked down stairs and had a stroke in the children's ward.

Oh dear...

 

[Austrian Gull]

Regarding the plane crash, the news here said that there's only one survivor - a teenage girl who spent hours in the sea clinging to wreckage.

Surely that's enough "human interest" for Sky to divert their attention away from Michael Jackson for a while.

 

[Juan Albion]

Coming on CNN in a moment: live coverage of a moment of silence for Michael Jackson. I kid you not.

 

[Juan Albion]

Oh dear, did CNN just lose their satellite feed for the moment of silence? I think they did . . .

 

[biggles]

Settled down this evening to catch up with what's going on in the world after a busy few days for me recently only to find that Sky News are still reporting live from California on Michael Jackson.

For the 10 minutes I watched, this was their only story. They've even sent out Kate Burley - like Kate Adie only for grief-stricken events.

Switched over to the Austrian 10 o'clock news and found out that 18 people had been killed in Italy when a goods train exploded and that over 150 people are missing presumed dead after a plane crash in the Indian Ocean.

Are these stories really so irrelevant to Sky News and its viewers that they don't deserve to be mentioned?

I was saddened by Jackson's death but the analysis five days later is totally out of proportion IMHO.

what , you mean jacko is dead , oh my god , when did it happen , that is dreadfull dreadfull news

 

[fatbadger]

Settled down this evening to catch up with what's going on in the world ... [and put on] ... Sky News

Do you see what you did wrong?

 

[Fungus]

I was saddened by Jackson's death but the analysis five days later is totally out of proportion IMHO.

It's not even "analysis", though, just speculation and repetitive bollox.

Same as most "news" today.

 

[GT49er]

Michael Jackson wife said it's the worst news she's had since her parents left her in Portugal.

....and it's the worst news I've had since I had to chuck out an out of date yogurt last week..............

 

[Austrian Gull]

Do you see what you did wrong?

Fair point they are pretty shite but over here it's the only English language TV channel we get apart from CNN and BBC World (which is like watching paint dry).

Oh, and MTV which seems to have forgotten what the M in its name stands for...

 

[Austrian Gull]

It's not even "analysis", though, just speculation and repetitive bollox.

Same as most "news" today.

Very good!

Kay Burley - "Stay with us because after the break we've got more speculation and repetitive bollox on the death of Michael Jackson".

 

[Gully]

The only problem is that, compared to the BBC, Sky is a bit like tabloid television...I am guessing that the Sun will be carrying stories about Jacko on most of the first half dozen pages or so for some time to come, you may have a bit of a wait before their TV equivalent lead with a decent news story...there were plenty of them about today!

 

[adrian29uk]

Yes I feel sorry that Jackson died, but like you say there are other more important news items to be covering. What I can stand is seeing people cry for someone they never knew, a bit like Diana that seemed to go on for weeks and weeks and weeks and weeks.....

 

[Jim D]

Regarding the plane crash, the news here said that there's only one survivor - a teenage girl who spent hours in the sea clinging to wreckage.

Surely that's enough "human interest" for Sky to divert their attention away from Michael Jackson for a while.

What nationality is she and does she speak English? Unless she's from UK/US Sky aren't interested.

 

[Tricky Dicky]

Settled down this evening to catch up with what's going on in the world after a busy few days for me recently only to find that Sky News are still reporting live from California on Michael Jackson.

For the 10 minutes I watched, this was their only story. They've even sent out Kate Burley - like Kate Adie only for grief-stricken events.

Switched over to the Austrian 10 o'clock news and found out that 18 people had been killed in Italy when a goods train exploded and that over 150 people are missing presumed dead after a plane crash in the Indian Ocean.

Are these stories really so irrelevant to Sky News and its viewers that they don't deserve to be mentioned?

I was saddened by Jackson's death but the analysis five days later is totally out of proportion IMHO.

Absolutely - I think they have got this one very wrong. I usually watch Sky News a lot, and as I'm at home most of the time at the mo, it is generally on all the time in the house. But they just won't stop with this jacko stuff. Ok, it was news for one day, two at a stretch but it's nearly a week now. On Monday I wanted to find out what happened in the Maddoff sentencing and it took all afternoon for them to mention it. Completely ridiculous in my view, and what a waste of money to send Ms Burrley to La LA Land)