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nod
Joined: 24 Dec 2006 Posts: 3558
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Posted: Wed Jul 25, 2007 12:30 pm Post subject: Enough reporting of floods ? |
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Are you like me sick to death of switching on the news to see some reporter standing at the end of a street where it is quite obviously flooded ?. They then show lots more pictures of flooded houses and distressed people but tell you no new facts.
I have every sympathy with the people flooded but I can do without dumbed down reporters. |
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mark occomore
Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 9955 Location: UK
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Posted: Wed Jul 25, 2007 6:43 pm Post subject: Re: Enough reporting of floods ? |
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nod wrote: | Are you like me sick to death of switching on the news to see some reporter standing at the end of a street where it is quite obviously flooded ?. They then show lots more pictures of flooded houses and distressed people but tell you no new facts.
I have every sympathy with the people flooded but I can do without dumbed down reporters. |
It's usually quite during the summer so the 24 hour rolling news networks are thriving on this major story. |
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John W
Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 3367 Location: Warwickshire, UK
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Posted: Wed Jul 25, 2007 7:07 pm Post subject: Re: Enough reporting of floods ? |
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nod wrote: | Are you like me sick to death of switching on the news to see some reporter standing at the end of a street where it is quite obviously flooded ? |
No, I'm not sick of it, it's very interesting seeing how people cope without water, without electricity, knowing that their beautiful garden or their summer caravan has been swept away etc. But it's only the brave few that come up for interviews. You never hear much from the idiots who left the brand new BMW on the drive, or from the little businesses in town centres that have been wiped out.
Not heard much about the aftermath up in Hull, Sheffield and Bentley, and we've only just heard from the Queen since the floods hit Gloucestershire near to her son's main residence...... |
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gfloyd
Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 4861 Location: Here, There, Everywhere.
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Posted: Wed Jul 25, 2007 7:33 pm Post subject: Re: Enough reporting of floods ? |
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[quote="John W"] nod wrote: |
You never hear much from the idiots who left the brand new BMW on the drive, or from the little businesses in town centres that have been wiped out.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6915507.stm
Actually some smaller businesses are fairing better than the bigger multinationals. Small cafes & hairdressers are open but MacDonalds and Starbucks cant operate! _________________ His name was ernie ........ and he drove the fastest milk cart in the west..... |
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firewirefred Guest
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Posted: Wed Jul 25, 2007 7:53 pm Post subject: Re: Enough reporting of floods ? |
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nod wrote: | Are you like me sick to death of switching on the news to see some reporter standing at the end of a street where it is quite obviously flooded ?. They then show lots more pictures of flooded houses and distressed people but tell you no new facts.
I have every sympathy with the people flooded but I can do without dumbed down reporters. |
Reporters are just doing what their duty editors require of them. I think, as JW says, the interesting "human interest" element is the rolling topic on this one. We see and hear of flooding and associate it only with unwelcome water in people's homes, but it's all the other effects like lack of power, lack of clean running water and breakdown of infrastructure that make it an important story with each new day.
Just think - if the opposite were the case and the news media turned to other events, would people then not complain that the media is complicit in some conspiracy to keep this disaster away from public attention?
You can't win when you work in "news".
I just think of the huge number of unsung heroes involved in trying to make life a bit better for the sufferers - or would-be sufferers - in this situation.
The "true Brit" spirit is alive and well, despite what the whingers might be saying! |
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nod
Joined: 24 Dec 2006 Posts: 3558
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Posted: Fri Jul 27, 2007 1:30 pm Post subject: |
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OK some interesting things going on, and some heroes, but I'm still sick of reporters standing in floods in their wellies |
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firewirefred Guest
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Posted: Fri Jul 27, 2007 1:59 pm Post subject: |
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I must admit that I have heard the words "as you can see behind me" rather too much now. |
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Behind Geddon's Wall
Joined: 11 Dec 2006 Posts: 1553 Location: Kingston Upon Hull/ The Cloud Factory
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Posted: Fri Jul 27, 2007 2:26 pm Post subject: |
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I tend to agree with nod, there is some good, hard news still in the floods, but it is being trivialised by a poor standard of reporting. It's OK to send Kate Silverton down to Gloucester, but if all she does is hand over to local reporters and then back to London, What is the point? _________________ Geddon
You simply mustn't blame yourself -- the days were perfect
And so were exactly what I was born to spoil
For I am the Rider to the World's End
Bound across the cinder causeway
From the furnace to the quarry
Through the fields of oil |
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John W
Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 3367 Location: Warwickshire, UK
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Posted: Fri Jul 27, 2007 6:22 pm Post subject: |
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So were the floods in Hull, Sheffield and Bentley not as severe as the Midlands? All the floodwater up there is gone and they are back to normal or at least waiting on insurance money or social handouts for those not insured?
I've not heard anyone in Tewksbury say they were not insured. |
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mark occomore
Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 9955 Location: UK
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Posted: Sat Jul 28, 2007 9:24 am Post subject: |
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Just think what would happen if London was flooded?
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In scenes that may no longer be dismissed as far-fetched, a new film is to chart what would happen if the Thames Barrier was overwhelmed.
The movie, based on a book by Richard Doyle, imagines how London would look if it was deluged by a surge of water.
Flood, which features Robert Carlyle, was shot over 11 weeks last year.
The author has said he believes there is a real threat to the capital. He has called for the government to take "its head out of the sand".
Save London
Guernsey-born Doyle, who now lives in Dartmoor, wrote the book in 2003 after spending two-and-a-half years researching the issue.
Writing on his website Doyle says he came up with the idea for the book after reading an article on global warming.
"[It was] one of those terrifying pieces about more extreme weather, rising sea levels and frequent violent storms. Suddenly I remembered the Thames Barrier. I wondered how it would cope.
"I started to look into some of the details. Barrier height, tidal reports and so forth. The more I looked, the more concerned I became."
The film also stars Poirot's David Suchet and screen and stage actor Tom Courtenay.
Carlyle plays an engineering chief (Rob Morrison) who realises that his estranged father's worst predictions are coming true.
They have to put aside their personal differences to save London from destruction.
The film is due to be released in August.
OLD GORDON WOULD HELP THEN!!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6920284.stm |
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