ITV News coverage of Cumbrian shootings

[mazza7103]

Sorry but this is going to be a rant. ive just watched itv news and they reported that it has just been told that after the shooting of the cab driver, there were 3 unarmed police officers present. the report insinuated that the officers should have done something direct to stop the shootings. the reporter even went so far as to ask a victim what they thought about it.

are we really suggesting that unarmed police officers would have been able to make a difference direct. the death count would have been 15 not 12. those officers would have had orders not to tackle the male direct but to get on the radio and tell others what he was doing and where he was going.

the report has suggested that the officers were negligent. i'm furious does a warrant card make officers bullet proof!!!!!

it doesnt help the victims to become a victim ffs

[Jeremy]

The ITV reporting of this whole incident has been sub-tabloid standard.

The other day, their lead story was that they'd got exclusive footage of the murderer on holiday, months before the shootings, looking "happy".

[mazza7103]

i saw that too. i did wonder how that was relevant. no one knows what was going on in his mind. i have emailed itv with my thoughts. i dont know if that was the best way to raise it as an issue

[Dorothy]

Do you regularly watch ITV News? If you do, am amazed you have only just realised how shockingly downmarket it is. Sub-GMTV standard, imo, and thats saying some. I stopped watching it about 10 years ago.

[Easties EL]

GMTV is shocking. Almost like a religious mental cult trying to brain wash you with fear.

[mazza7103]

i work weird shifts so dont have regular viewing. i dont remember the last time i watched it. did you all see the coverage of the fox attacks. they started filming a random fox that was in the street and commented on whether that was the suspect. ITS A BLOODY FOX!!!!! sympathies to the family of the girls attacked of course but its a fox

[Keef]

Most TV news has decended in to tabloid nonsense in the last year or 2. I used to have a lot of time for Channel 4 news at 7pm, but they have reported a few things in a really poor tabloid manner recently, it makes me really angry.

It's the same on the radio now, Radio 4 was asking the same questions about the actions of these police officers. I guess they'd all claim that they're asking the questions "the public want to hear". Maybe they're right, as there are a lot of feching thick people living in this country quite frankly.

[giggirl]

So where DO you go for balanced and intelligent news coverage?

[Keef]

I still watch channel 4, and listen to radio 4, and I hear the facts. As soon as they start asking people for their opinions, I tend to turn off.

Don't get me wrong, if they get a financial expert in to talk about the banking system, I'll listen, but when they get Joe Bloggs in to say what he reckons about that thing that happened, I just can't be arsed. The coverage of the whole Isreal thing has been pretty shite too IMO.

[giggirl]

That's fair comment Keef. If I want to know what the man on the Clapham omnibus thinks I'll come on here.

[capt_birdseye]

If you get the chance try and watch Charlie Brooker's Newswipe on BBC4. There was an episode recently where they canvassed people on the street about how pointless it was to canvass people on the street.

[Sue]

capt_birdseye Wrote:

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> There was an episode

> recently where they canvassed people on the street

> about how pointless it was to canvass people on

> the street.

xxxxxxx

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