Comments on: Breaking news for Britain http://www.offthetelly.co.uk/?p=2719 Contemporary and classic British TV Wed, 24 Feb 2010 13:09:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.2 By: Nigel Fishwick http://www.offthetelly.co.uk/?p=2719&cpage=1#comment-92 Nigel Fishwick Fri, 19 Sep 2008 10:00:55 +0000 http://www.offthetelly.co.uk/?p=2719#comment-92 I do like the fact that I can get televised news at any time of the day though, but I do agree with the fact that the same half-dozen stories featuring the same footage and often little in the way of updates throughout the day are pointlessly repetitive.

I’d much prefer it if a larger portion of the broadcast were given to a wider variety of stories, both local and international. It not like there’s a lack of material.

]]> By: Adrian Partington http://www.offthetelly.co.uk/?p=2719&cpage=1#comment-91 Adrian Partington Fri, 19 Sep 2008 09:24:59 +0000 http://www.offthetelly.co.uk/?p=2719#comment-91 I don’t believe there’s any need for 24 hour TV news channels, except during a national emergency – and if there was one, presumably the other channels would switch to rolling news coverage anyway, which rather takes away the news channel’s raison d’etre.

The danger with insufficient news material, they will simply keep repeating the same stuff ad infinitum, boring everyone rigid..

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