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Joe Biden's Inauguaration

TV Coverage - 20th January (January 2021)

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LL
London Lite Founding member
dosxuk posted:
London wasn't being affected by the floods so it's no surprise it didn't feature. If the Thames had been causing evacuations there would have been much more coverage.


London has the Thames Barrier which protects the capital from severe flooding.
MA
Markymark
London Lite posted:
dosxuk posted:
London wasn't being affected by the floods so it's no surprise it didn't feature. If the Thames had been causing evacuations there would have been much more coverage.


London has the Thames Barrier which protects the capital from severe flooding.


The Thames Barrier only protects against tidal flooding, although with a swollen Thames upstream, it would protect against the combined effect of high tide.
dosxuk, Inspector Sands and deejay gave kudos
JO
Jon
London Lite posted:
dosxuk posted:
London wasn't being affected by the floods so it's no surprise it didn't feature. If the Thames had been causing evacuations there would have been much more coverage.


London has the Thames Barrier which protects the capital from severe flooding.

I don’t think that was the point.
JO
Jon
DVB Cornwall posted:
The Pandemic is ongoing, The floods regular winter (and sometimes at other seasons) events, both are newsworthy. The Inauguration a four yearly event, complicted by the electoral politics of 'The World's Greatest Country' and latterly the insurrection rightly deserved to knock the other two items significantly down the order yesterday. News, never should be parochial, which some with devious intent wish it was.

Yes, there is nothing new to cover about Covid which people don’t have an understanding of already. Basically every other story is also set against the backdrop of Covid.

The flooding thing is slightly different especially if their is a significant threat to life, but even then that relies on the ability to give good coverage in the midsts of lockdowns and a pandemic.
MI
Michael
BBC coverage was awful yesterday. They need news reporters, not commentators. You got ridiculous things happening like the PA announcement, clear as day, saying "please welcome Lady Ga Ga" and then Katty Kay butting in and saying "here comes Lady Ga Ga". She spoke over Amy Klobuchar more than once, including saying "let's listen to what she has to say", as she was saying it, thus preventing us from hearing what she had to say.
MA
Markymark
Michael posted:
BBC coverage was awful yesterday. They need news reporters, not commentators. You got ridiculous things happening like the PA announcement, clear as day, saying "please welcome Lady Ga Ga" and then Katty Kay butting in and saying "here comes Lady Ga Ga". She spoke over Amy Klobuchar more than once, including saying "let's listen to what she has to say", as she was saying it, thus preventing us from hearing what she had to say.


I'm old enough to remember the Apollo moonshot coverage. Straining to hear the NASA flight commentary, underneath James Burke stating the obvious. Some things never change
BR
Brekkie
Guess nowadays those "small steps" themselves would be obscurred by a big red strap across the screen.
LL
London Lite Founding member
Jon posted:
London Lite posted:
dosxuk posted:
London wasn't being affected by the floods so it's no surprise it didn't feature. If the Thames had been causing evacuations there would have been much more coverage.


London has the Thames Barrier which protects the capital from severe flooding.

I don’t think that was the point.


I fully understand the London bashing from another member as it's perceived that unless it happens in London, it doesn't feature on national news bulletins.

There is some flooding further upstream in places like Putney or Teddington, but it's nothing to make a news channel send out the chopper or a news crew.
DO
dosxuk
London Lite posted:
Jon posted:
London Lite posted:

London has the Thames Barrier which protects the capital from severe flooding.

I don’t think that was the point.


I fully understand the London bashing from another member as it's perceived that unless it happens in London, it doesn't feature on national news bulletins.

There is some flooding further upstream in places like Putney or Teddington, but it's nothing to make a news channel send out the chopper or a news crew.


It's not so much London bashing and more a prediction based on what has happened time and time again. I can even understand the arguments that the number of people affected by severe weather in the London area outweighs those affected in other regions, meaning more prominence should be given to those stories. But there are numerous examples over the last few years where severe weather outside of the London commuter belt gets ignored or pushed to local radio, while a bit of a snow flurry or a single railway line blocked by a puddle gets national coverage if it happens in the greater London area.
MO
Mouseboy33
HAHAHAHAHAHA!


BK
bkman1990
I found out this evening on the RTÉ News app that James Comey will be interviewed on The Late Late Show on RTÉ One tomorrow night. He will be there to talk to Ryan Tubridy about the future of Biden's Presidency and the legacy of now former US President Donald Trump.

https://www.rte.ie/entertainment/2021/0121/1191213-ryan-tubridy-announces-some-of-his-late-late-guests/
SC
scottishtv Founding member
bkman1990 posted:
He will be there to talk to Ryan Tubridy about the future of Biden's Presidency and the legacy of now former US President Donald Trump.

And promote his new book, I'd expect.

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