General Chat

Oh I do wish we had a 'like' button :-D

well I am very pistoffius :-D :-D

Quite. So there's no point in getting pistoffious :-D :-D :-D

Well there you go Ann. Now you know :-D :-D :-D

Having worked for years for a major commercial news network I can assure AnnCardiff that news networks focus very closely on what their viewers are interested in. They are not very interested in murky doings of the Russian army, Afghan elections. science and so on. Mass human suffering eg Syria, starving people and so on also gets poor audiences.

By and large number 1 spot is always taken by sex / murder / corruption scandals and cases involving celebrities.

Of course some people find this sort of thing tedious and boring but in this day and age there are plenty of alternative news.

The iron law of mass market news I am afraid is that news about the many = boring, news about an individual = interesting. News about facts off scale for boring - that is why politicians survive being strung up.

News networks always try and link any story to real people rather than the abstract. The price of advertising slots varies with the level of interest, all you need to know really ;-)

Ann will no doubt be elated to know that following the current case we shall be getting months more of South African murder trials following the recent deportation of Shrien Dewani.

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I agree milady :-D

struth - put the news on to see what's been happening in the world at large and what do I get - flippin' Oscar P yet again - this is ridiculous

When I don't want to watch something, even on the news, I don't watch it, I either turn off turn over, or leave the room.

I'm finding the prosecution questions very interesting, I can't say I'm enjoying the trial, it's about someone who has died, but I'm finding it all very enlightening. It's real life, unlike a lot of other rubbish on the TV, it's not a soap, talent show, or put on reality TV, it's what's really happening in the world.

I'm not watching because it's a famous athlete on trial, I'm watching because I'm learning about what the justice system is like in another Country.

The BBC seem to have lost the plot completely over what is regarded as 'important news' to the British public.

But then again Auntie Beeb has changed so much over the years.

I just do not think that the BBC should be using their main news channel for non stop wall to wall coverage of any issue, there are other things happening around the world and here in the UK every single day, maybe they should have a separate channel for this sort of wall to wall coverage.

I know it is not obligatory to watch and if it was a whole programme I wouldn't but it is large chunks of the news. I try to do something else but then you can miss the next bit of news so to turn over is not an option when he will also be on the news on the other station.

The BBC seem to have lost the plot altogether when it comes to their idea of prioritising the news.

Hardly a week goes by without complaints from the public only to get some no no of a news producer on at the weekend telling us that they know better.

They are no better when it comes to sports coverage, insisting on showing stuff that no one has anything more than a passing interest in on prime TV, but don't get me started there.

If he carries on with the crocodile tears and pretending to be sick.It's going to take months for the fiasco to finish.

I don't wonder the Judge adjourned the trial the other day,she must be as fed up as the rest of us of all the tears and acting.

I turn the tv over every time his name is mentioned even in the news but can't seem to get away from him and his brilliant acting every 5 minutes of the day.

You would think the way he is talking that he is the VICTIM,it's all ME ME ME.

Pees me off.

I'm interested in the law, and have found this trial intriguing, as the system is so different from the law here. I prefer factual TV, I turn off things I don't like, so you don't have to watch it, or just turn over, it isn't obligatory to watch.

Maybe the BBC are trying to help David Cameron by providing a smokescreen to take attention away from his recent problems ;-)

Personally I am sick to death with it, he is dragging it out and we get too much coverage. But people seem obsessed with it, even on facebook. :-(

This trial is getting as much coverage as the death and funeral of Nelson Mandela received :-(

South Africa is a dangerous place to live..........

carrying/owning a gun is commonplace..........

He deserves life in jail, but these celebrities always get away with it,