BBC vs USA TV news, interesting comparison, or is it Israel vs USA?

[uppityperson]

BBC news (1/2 hour show) tonight was 30 minutes of Sharon. They kept showing the same piece of ambulance pulling up to the hospital. They keep interviewing different hospital people, and political people. They kept asking for predictions of what was going on inside, of what the outcome would be, of what the outcome of possible outcomes would be. Over and over and over. The responses over and over and over were unanimous. I am not a doctor and I cannot say what will happen. I cannot predict what will happen. We must wait and see what will happen.

No OMG stories. No lies. No SWAT team. No beautiful people giving "inside" stories to make themselves look good or be The First to Report The News. Yes, BBC has its problems, but compared to CNN, NBC, ABC, CBS that I briefly watched, it was much more tolerable.

I still wish one of them would have talked about the many Indonesians buried by the mudslides.

On further thought, perhaps it is not BBC since it's reporter was trying. Maybe it's Israel vs USA new coverage?

[Ilsa]

1. I think it is the BBC division whose news items are intended

for North America, and they cover the Indonesian mudslides mostly for Far East and South Pacific listeners/viewers.

[uppityperson]

2. I think I wasn't clear enough, I heard nothing on any of the USA ones

I heard nothing on the USA ones about the mudslides either. I figure that news usually covers what has most personal concern for its viewers, but it just seems what the USA MSM considers most important is not. Rumor mongering and stiring up people, rather than meaningful stuff.

[Ilsa]

3. ITA. It should be covered. But I've noticed that even BBC

does some parsing of who gets what news. At least, that how it seems to me when I listen to them online.