British Expatriate Network

Scroll down to video and audio news links and watch this, the lady refuses to lead the news with Paris Hilton.
Oh if only more news readers would join her smile

http//news.bbc.co.uk/

Good girl, now if we can have her work on the Spice Girls . . .

What’s everyone got against Paris Hilton? You going to start ranking your celebrities or stop watching Entertainment Tonight?

If there is a problem it is not with Paris Hilton its with our fascination with the idea of celebrity.

Personally I think she's very good at what she does. She's uber hot and spins that into a money making goldmine. She's the embodiment of the post-modernity celebrity. And, I’d she'd be a great bunk up.

the whole problem here is with newsworthiness. just because some rich idiot skank got sent to jail is no reason to give her headline coverage. Its all well and good for entertainment shows etc.. but a news show? come on! I think the newscaster has the right idea and, despite her co-hosts, made the right choice to stand by her decision. American newsmedia has alot of problems with its priorities and with the way (Recent fox coverasge of london car bombs) it tends to invent things, so the fact that one person has made the choice to ignore whats not really news anyway is at least a little step in the right direction.

I am sure there are more import things happening in the world, than Paris, she should only be a foot note of the news, not the news as a whole

I reckon her doting parents are paying the news media to keep her profile in there. America's little princess lol

Ii never ceases to amaze me the way the everyday american population are so infatuated with the twee .

What they need is a royal family lol

American newsmedia has alot of problems with its priorities and with the way (Recent fox coverasge of london car bombs)...

servalan,

I didn't see any US reporting of London car bombs (well, maybe a little). I'm curious to know; how did Fox report the incidents in London?

Thanks
Timbo

From what I recall they got the name of the nightclub wrong, how the first car was discovered, a vigilant ambulance driver alerted the cops, according to the cops, not according to Fox, the car in Park Lane wasn't there, they didn't have footage and therefore denied it's existence and said it was an open topped double decker bus,
and went straight into speculation and their experts, who all but gave a detailed description of how to make the car bombs.
They also said London had ground to a halt, almost true in the west end, and people were terrified and running round like chickens with their heads cut off, really, a Brit panicking about a bomb that didn't go off, Oh and the classic line which pissed me off no end, Brits have never experienced car bombs in the capitol and therefore didn't know how to deal with it. Like the Irish never bombed London, bollocks and speculation, very little reporting of the actual news.
They did occassionally go to Sky news, who seemed to make a point of contradicting their reports and correcting their mistakes, which they then reported as the Brits being unable to face the truth of what was happening.
Love to see the Americans catch the perps as quickly.

On July 4th at around noon EST - they were seeking the opinions of the not obviously qualified Lynn Chenney.... Unfortunately she was more interested in promoting her latest book.

The initial coverage on all the outlets was more of the usual - British muslims are an uneducated underclass, whereas American muslims are part of the mainstream so it couldn't happen here.
Imagine their surprise when they discovered that the alleged bombers were "uneducated" neurosurgeons and other doctors :roll:

I note now that the neurosurgeon called doctors in the US... perhaps the media here will be a little less smug and condescending.... perhaps not. :?:

Thanks for enlightening me. Crikey, it sounds like the reporting was worse than I thought. I don't get cable because I refuse to pay for such rubbish. I can watch it for free on terrestrial.

On the day of the Glasgow incident, an American friend said words to the effect of
'OMG! Did you hear about the bomb at England airport!'

How we laughed!