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I do think the BBC news is much better than CNN news, but you got to remember that in Britain we pay
for are TV (TV licence) and so the BBC news probably can afford sending people half way round the
world for a better news coverage. |
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CNN is too much USA oriented. Anything happening elsewhere is considered as minor and
inconsequential. BBC is more objective and offers a better worldwide coverage. |
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CNN is that on slow news days, it has a real tendency to focus on tabloid-style stories, involving
celebrities, sensational crime, or extreme weather. BBC, on the other hand, seems to spend more time
exploring issues and trends on days when no major international event or incident has taken place.
This seems to be a much more fruitful exercise. I think that BBC's news structure also encourages
more in-depth, thoughtful news coverage. Rather than having anchors sit for hours in front of the
cameras and desperately try to pull news stories out of their hats to pass the time, BBC normally
offers a half hour of solid news at the top of the hour, followed by half-hour political, business
and cultural programming. |
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BBC tends to offer more in-depth, analytical coverage of news events than CNN. Unfortunately, the
American news network has a habit of focusing on headline news, where anchors introduce a current
event while displaying a few, short images and them move on to the next "breaking" story, or to a
commercial. As such, viewers are provided with little analysis and context.
My other problem with CNN is that on slow news days, it has a real tendency to focus on
tabloid-style stories, involving celebrities, sensational crime, or extreme weather. BBC, on the
other hand, seems to spend more time exploring issues and trends on days when no major international
event or incident has taken place. This seems to be a much more fruitful exercise. I think that
BBC's news structure also encourages more in-depth, thoughtful news coverage. Rather than having
anchors sit for hours in front of the cameras and desperately try to pull news stories out of their
hats to pass the time, BBC normally offers a half hour of solid news at the top of the hour,
followed by half-hour political, business and cultural programming. |
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At the beginning of the Iraq war, CNN separated its US broadcast from its world broadcast
completely, even though the events being covered were the same, since the war was obviously of major
interest to everyone around the world. That tells you something right there. They wanted to give
patriotic, Fox-style coverage to the US audience, while trying to be more objective to the
international audience.
I stopped watching CNN then. It's obviously tainted by nationalistic prejudice. Look at Wolf
Blitzer's interview with evil Lynn Cheney. The Cheniac ludicrously accused CNN of providing
unpatriotic coverage by daring to show a semblance of the real situation in Iraq. "Don't you want
the US to win?" Cheney demanded. "Of course we want the US to win," Blitzer replied. Is it really
the function of a serious news service to take sides in wars?
It also fails badly to provide objective coverage of events in the Middle East. I had CNN on with
the sound off once. I looked up and saw it was showing something about the USS Liberty, the American
ship which was attacked by Israeli jets. I was surprised by this because normally American news
won't show anything that might portray Israel in an unfavourable light. So I turned the sound up,
and found that someone had come out with a report essentially dismissing the whole incident, saying
it was all a big mistake. They were only covering it to dismiss it and had probably never covered it
before until they had a dismissive hook they could hang the story on. Blitzer himself actually
worked for AIPAC. It seems amazing to me that a journalist who is so obviously partisan on a
controversial issue is nonetheless allowed to cover it. That wouldn't be allowed at the BBC. |
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I like the resources that the BBC has world wide. I listen to it a lot on satellite radio. I hear
stories about things that go on elsewhere that i would never hear on any other network. I won't
comment on their perspective, but i will say that they seem to have greater and deeper coverage than
CNN. |
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They both stink and so we should destroy both of them. STOP WATCHING THE NEWS, IT CORRUPTS YOU!!!! |
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23 May 2008 15:30
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