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Phones, letters, e-mails

Host Host | 10:50 UK time, Thursday, 10 August 2006

Among the audience comments to the ´óÏó´«Ã½ in the past 24 hours were many on coverage of the Middle East crisis, with one person complaining that the ´óÏó´«Ã½ is not devoting enough airtime to the story.

Also, some people remarked on coverage of the verdict in - with at least one person saying that the story should not have led any of the news bulletins.

We also received the following comment in an email:

I no longer see the need for news. Up until now I believed that news reporting had some effect on the perpetrators of violence - I'm afraid those days are gone.

Comments

  • 1.
  • At 11:17 AM on 10 Aug 2006,
  • George Amaral wrote:

I agree that the media has huge responsibility in promoting instability.
I was shocked by National Geographic Channel programming of terrorist plots I once watched on NGC the recreation of a terrorist attack on a PAL flight from Cebu. The terrorist hid liquid materials for the explosive in a lens-cleaning bottle. Today I wake up to the terror plot on ´óÏó´«Ã½ World and that liquids are not being allowed on board. Coincidence or did the plotters watched the same programme?

  • 2.
  • At 01:11 PM on 10 Aug 2006,
  • Mick wrote:

"Also, some people remarked on the coverage of the verdict in the Damilola Taylor case - with at least one person saying that the story should not have led any of the news bulletins."

What on earth! I suppose the same person has just called you to say the foiled attacks shouldn't lead the ´óÏó´«Ã½'s news bulletins, too...

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