In the News
I know that I must be sounding like a stuck record but since I decided to boycott all the daily newspapers the only news I see is on the BBC and I'm now considering giving Auntie the old heave ho - why is that? I hear you ask - well for one the BBC seems hell bent on destroying the economy of this country.
Does that sound a little harsh when politicians seem to have buggered up the economy since time began? well maybe but let's consider the facts. This country, along with many other around the world, is suffering a downturn in it's economy due in no small part to the American system of giving mortgages to people who can't afford them. That might sound a little simplistic but at the end of the day the world would not be in the state it's in now if American bankers had been more responsible with their lending. That of course is not the only reason we are in this state but I'm sure that the hundreds of hours that the BBC have spent 'explaining' the credit crunch have either informed you or bored you to death and you don't need me waffling on about it here.
But my biggest reason for looking for an alternative source of news is BBC TV's paucity of world news. Did you know for example that the Israelis are still trying to starve the Palestinians in Gaza into submission or that 5 Brits have been killed in Afghanistan so far this month or that a company in China that employs 200,000 people has had it's shares suspended because of suspected stock market fraud or that after only a year since it joined the EU Bulgaria has been warned that it's eurofunding will be suspended if they don't get their act together over corruption and fraud. Do you even know the name of Australia's Prime Minister or the fact that he is proposing the creation of an Asia-Pacific block similar to the European Union?
No well you're are not alone. I think it's about time we rebelled and told the BBC what we really want in our news bulletins - news - not gossip from reality shows or pathetically staged vox pops or even god forbid that lizards are the new Labradors (I kid you not, Breakfast news had a big article this morning on how people are buying reptiles instead dogs because of the credit crisis - ahhhhhhh!)
(by the way the Aussie PM is Kevin Rudd)
2 comments:
If you can get BBC World News, that's pretty decent. I'm out in Kazakhstan at the moment and I've got a choice for news of CNN (too America-centric), Sky (yeah...) or BBC World News. They repeat their programs far too much (Hard Talk is on every evening, generally twice, for instance), but other than that it's far better for the international news than either the BBC News broadcasts at 6 or 10, or News 24.
I just had a look - there's a live stream in a link at the bottom of http://www.bbcworldnews.com/. See what you think!
Gareth
I clicked on the link and was redirected to a page offering a free trail for BBC News + SuperPass (whatever that is) because BBC World is not available to residents of the United Kingdom - good job I'm not neurotic or I'd start thinking that there was a conspiracy!!!
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