BBC scale back coverage of the Cancun G20 summit

Hmmm...

The Chilean miners story was a great one to cover, and very uplifting.

That being said, it seems the fate of the world's environment (debatable, but important) should get much more coverage than just one reporter and no live coverage.

 

I was just thinking today.. that's great that the miners made it out.. but I wonder how many children died of hunger, sickness, and violence in Africa during that same period of time... Just kind of makes you wonder what we should really be focusing our attention on... and why it is that we care more about what Paris Hilton does than we do about things that seem to be to be far more urgent.... Climate change debate is certainly more worthwhile a topic than what Lindsey Lohan is doing but I'd be very surprised if it gets a 5th of the airtime she does...

/rant

 

Come on Paris Hilton and Lindsey Lohan is major news and sells advertising and people tune in. So what if a few kids die of starvation. This is how the media looks at it. If the kids died in their own towns maybe they would change, but somehow I doubt it. The media should really be ashamed of themselves.

 

Is there a shortage of tabloid news in England.........

 

I'll agree that the BBC has the reputation of being a lot more factual and less sensational than many other outlets.. though I think its probably a little naive to think that they don't have some political slant on certain issues... certainly nothing lie FoxNews but unless they are all opinion-less robots they're going to put a pro-England and (liberal I suspect) tint on some stories... even if they try not to...