brokencross
26-Jun-07, 10:45
I don't normally watch GMTV, but because my cable tv was "poorly" this morning, GMTV happened to be on the box.
They were on the main story of the day, the flooding in Sheffield and the villages being evacuated because of fears of a reservoir dam being breached. They went to a live link to a reporter in a helicopter over the affected areas and he was explaining and showing the damage caused by the floods etc.
All of a sudden the helicopter pictures diasappear from the screen and Fiona Phillips face appears saying, "very sorry, we have to interrupt you there, blah, blah etc" I thought, my goodness, something major must have happened in order to break in to the main news story of the day, was it an assasination, another bombing, a world catasrophe of some sort?............................................. .......NO, none of these.
In their wisdom GMTV broke into such an important news item to show live pictures from L.A. of some celebrity "z" lister, attention seeking, talentless, law beaker..i.e. Paris Hilton being released from jail. So what, by all means report the fact she has left jail, but for it to take precedent over an ongoing news item in our own country in which people have died, just makes no sense.
That just went to remind me of why I avoid GMTV, it is nothing but a tabloid comic. The "in depth" political interviews are a joke, they are nothing but a frothy, frivolous chat on the sofa where the politicians just spout their rhetoric without being challenged.
Rant over.
They were on the main story of the day, the flooding in Sheffield and the villages being evacuated because of fears of a reservoir dam being breached. They went to a live link to a reporter in a helicopter over the affected areas and he was explaining and showing the damage caused by the floods etc.
All of a sudden the helicopter pictures diasappear from the screen and Fiona Phillips face appears saying, "very sorry, we have to interrupt you there, blah, blah etc" I thought, my goodness, something major must have happened in order to break in to the main news story of the day, was it an assasination, another bombing, a world catasrophe of some sort?............................................. .......NO, none of these.
In their wisdom GMTV broke into such an important news item to show live pictures from L.A. of some celebrity "z" lister, attention seeking, talentless, law beaker..i.e. Paris Hilton being released from jail. So what, by all means report the fact she has left jail, but for it to take precedent over an ongoing news item in our own country in which people have died, just makes no sense.
That just went to remind me of why I avoid GMTV, it is nothing but a tabloid comic. The "in depth" political interviews are a joke, they are nothing but a frothy, frivolous chat on the sofa where the politicians just spout their rhetoric without being challenged.
Rant over.