[Foundation-l] Re: London 7/7, and Wikinews

Sun Jul 10 11:21:07 UTC 2005

Robin Shannon (robin.shannon at gmail.com) [050710 20:36]:
> >On 7/9/05, David Gerard <fun at thingy.apana.org.au> wrote:

> > We tried watching BBC News 24 for a bit, but it just annoyed us. Too much
> > repetition to fill space even by 11:30am. The BBC websites were fantastic
> > though.

> Speaking from australia, i know nothing of the bbc's funding, but one
> gets the feeling from what i saw of that broadcast that it has been
> cut back quite a bit.

No, it's just being spread too thinly ;-) They used to have two TV channels
and four or five radio services; they now have five (six?) TV channels (BBC
1-4, BBC News 24, a few other small services), seven national radio
services and a gigantic website. And you know, 24-hour news channels are
masters of filling space anyway. So the best way we found to get coverage
was to hang on LJ and watch people personally report in "I'm OK, I saw
this."

- d.