Am I Of This World?

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I turned on Sky news as I heard there was a serious fire fight in Afghanistan and needed the news. Their lead story has a reporter beside a SatVan outside David Beckhams house. Apparently he is having a party. Behind her at the gates there is a huge assembley of the public and media.

I don't mean to sound elitist, or judgemental, but I am going to anyway. What is the fuckin world coming to?
 
Don't watch Sky News. It is tabloid TV. If you can access Sky News, can't you also access BBC News 24?

I have the BBC as my internet home page. There's no mention of the Beckham bash. At the same time, there's no mention of the situation in Afghanistan.
 
No, the world has definitely gone mad AC. News priorities are completely alien to me. What most ordinary people deem as the most important news items, clearly are not agreed with by those who choose the order of stories for the TV and Radio companies. It's very sad, and extremely frustrating and Sky are now one of the worst offenders.


Who the feck really cares if the Beckhams are having yet another party so that people can see who was or wasn't invited, and more importantly... what they were wearing. h:)

BBC News 24 is marginally better.
 
CNN International is the only one I will watch - perhaps slightly too much emphasis on the Far East in particular China. But overall seems to offer the a good balanced perspective on World news and has some excellent features.
 
Originally posted by Kathy@May 21 2006, 02:02 PM
No, the world has definitely gone mad AC. News priorities are completely alien to me. What most ordinary people deem as the most important news items, clearly are not agreed with by those who choose the order of stories for the TV and Radio companies.
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It's an old chestnut I'm afraid Kathy, and I wouldn't pretend to offer any enlightment as my own as such, but if people weren't interested then the media wouldn't lead with it, as it wouldn't sell etc. People might have queued up in their thousands to denounce the media over Diana, yet sales went up whenever she appeared on their front pages, quite possibly the same people who were criticising in the aftermath of her death? (the Express group clearly believed in the formula, they still lead with her at least once a week). Journo's are one of the most prickly and self regarding professions around (imho), and they'll never waste time in telling you that they feed a public desire to consume rather than dictate the agenda. I have to say, I have some sympathy with them on this issue. The only example I can think of where a boycott of sorts has been sustained concerns the Sun in Liverpool post Hillsborough.

Mind you, if you want to see serious dross, try Fox :cry: :lol:
 
Wasser are you sure? it was not not going to UNI-CHEF....? You see who the chef is..... Gordon (fucking)Ramsey.....I hope they all get food poisoning.............. :angy: :rolleyes: envious no not really............
 
Yes but the party is for the England squad which will be great for team morale and hopefully enhance our chances for the world cup, so cant be a bad thing. :D
 
Originally posted by fudge@May 21 2006, 05:54 PM
Yes but the party is for the England squad which will be great for team morale and hopefully enhance our chances for the world cup, so cant be a bad thing. :D
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That's the spirit, what the lads need before the World Cup is a morale boosting booze up :D
 
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Wasser are you sure? it was not going to UNI-CHEF....? :lol: me being funny? Tied to the chef below....

You see who the chef is..... Gordon (fucking)Ramsey..... :rolleyes: can do without seeing this guy he's a total arsehole..

I hope they all get food poisoning.............. :unsure: to see the above then castigated

envious no not really............ :teeth:
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speaking the truth...

Exactly what it states Pee....................I have broken it down now, just for you to decipher with the relevant smilies too.

Who the feck wants to see this as front line news***????? On our T/V's in preference to the real news............. :teeth: certainly not me as you’ve already guessed............

*** This is what this thread started by A-C is supposedely about.............
 
Well taking it one "sentence" at a time. The first one is asking whether the party is raising money for Uni-Chef? Why ask this??

Secondly, you appear to criticise the Beckhams for hiring one of the best chefs in the world to cater for a party at which they hope to raise nearly a million for charity. Why?

Then you hope they all get food poisoning? Again, WHY??
 
Get a grip, gripers! It's a fundraiser (that is supposed to be Good in our society), it's a bit of fun for the team afore they go (that can't be bad, either), it puts Ingerland on the map as fun, generous, lively, youthful (anyone complaining about that?), and none of you is being asked to cough up so much as 5p, so what the hell is the beef? As for it not being deemed suitable as news - since WHEN isn't the Cup Final news, since when supporting your national team is supposed to be wrong, since when isn't Becks news, and why shouldn't it be national news, as it's about what is apparently our national sport and its top team?

Afghanistan, Iraq, landmines, Mad Bush and his Wreck the Planet deals, AIDS, famine, small wars and genocides, death from diseases, child porn, rapine and murder - it's all still going on, darlings, so you can rest assured that all the horrors and disgraces of the world are still firmly in place (and not one of us on here is going to change any of them), so you can go and roll around in the gloom and doom of it in any amount of worthy newspaper articles, political commentary, and tut-tut over the latest bombings and brutalities flashed to your screens.

Meanwhile, the obverse to human folly and vileness is a bit of fun 'n' fluff taking place in the causes of Doing Good and Sporting Endeavour.

News, thank God, doesn't exist only to serve to advertise our most wicked actions - it's there to serve all forms of activity, even the frivol that is horseracing, which, over-earnest worriers, still carries on heartlessly as little children die of malnutrition, every day. If today's beanfeast means some people chuck a few quid at UNICEF and actually help to save some weans from a hideous death, I know that I'd prefer to see far more such parties and far, far fewer pictures of what is supposed to pass as 'real' news, thank you.
 
Yes, exactly D.O. The newsreaders on any channel can talk about Beckham's party, or any subject they deem "news worthy" during the news programme, but, in my view, not when there are far more important items to report first.

I really can't see how Beckham's party can be worthy of headline news...
 
I'm not really interested in the charity aspect. It seems to me that whenever some minor wannabee wants to be on telly, they blame it on charriddeee.

I am interested on the question -"why this matters?" - or more importantly - why do I feel so deeply disasocciated from what seems to matter?

I hate charity when it becomes, as last week in work, "sponsor me - I am walking in the Himalayas for one legged tourettes kids."

If you want to make a charitable effort, why not sing with children in a Chesire home on your own time instead of having me pay your airfaire to Nepal?.

I am out of step. I am not one with the world. The Beckhams are having a partee.
 
ACTUALEEE... the question wasn't whether it should be headline news (which it isn't in the qualitee papers), but whether it should be the lead story on SKY NEWS television.

So, what is it that you're so Honest Tommish about, AC? How charity should begin at home, and how you resent being asked to sponsor someone raising funds for the Himalayan Rescue Service and not St. Bleak's Home for the Locally Pathetic? So it's a Them vs Us issue? Or you don't like people being sponsored, because you think that if they want to do something 'nice', they should just bung the charity the £5,000 themselves (as if most people have that money)? Or, refuting the 'global village' theory, you shouldn't do anything for orphaned Zambians when you have worthy dogs to rescue in Ireland? Or is it that you don't think any LIGHT-HEARTED item of news should ever lead the stories when there's so much more worthy horror and pain?

Why is a long-running, well-documented war MORE worthy of leading the news than something both useful and entertaining, pray tell? Haven't we, as a species, managed to make fighting so commonplace, so part of the fabric of our everyday lives (since recorded time began), that it is the least deserving of our attention? Isn't it about time we all grew up and stopped killing each other, and feeding the media with our diabolical ways? I see NO merit in leading with the murdering of our fellow brethren, regardless of who's doing it to whom and how, why and where. We should be feckin ASHAMED of ourselves for promoting the filth of war, not affecting an avid interest in its continuance.

I'm more than amazed that you'd prefer to have more examples of hatred prioritised into your home by Sky, and that you're wringing your hands about the 'state of the world' because of a few hours of well-intentioned jollity in one house, in a small country, harming no-one anywhere.
 
Originally posted by krizon@May 22 2006, 01:32 AM
So, what is it that you're so Honest Tommish about, AC? How charity should begin at home
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I'm not and never have been one of the "charity begins at home mob" oh judgmental one, nor I suspect is AC.
 
Seems the consensus is all one way? people just dont want to see this as headlines in news reports as it was not only SKY NEWS but ALL the news channels that I watched carried it as headlines ....................

I think the point was, should it be headline news over arguably more important issues.
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Yes, exactly D.O. The newsreaders on any channel can talk about Beckham's party, or any subject they deem "news worthy" during the news programme, but, in my view, not when there are far more important items to report first.
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I really can't see how Beckham's party can be worthy of headline news...
I am also sick of celebrities using the "charity"cover to get on TV.

Self-serving egoistical self-promoters the lot of them.
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Originally posted by krizon@May 22 2006, 12:32 AM
ACTUALEEE... the question wasn't whether it should be headline news (which it isn't in the qualitee papers), but whether it should be the lead story on SKY NEWS television.
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Krizon, my posting referred to AC's original bleat about Sky News therefore your little dig at me was entirely without justification. Also, I refered to what I'd presumed was the point AC was making. I wasn't asking the question you attributed to me.

Your contributions to these issues are becoming tediously nit-picking.
 
Well, the fact he has just made documentary about his current lifestyle Luke probably answers that one.
 
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