24 hour news channels

[Zizou]

Just watching the Sky coverage of the Glasgow accident, it is fucking ridiculous the liberties these reporters will take to get a quote or a tiny detail about the accident. The vermin reporter was interviewing an eye-witness who was obviously deeply distressed and stated many times she didn't want to describe what she saw, yet he pushed and pushed and pushed until he got a line he could quote.

The worst example was one that wee April Jones went missing and Kay Burley was literally yards behind the officers searching for her body.

Scum of the fucking earth man. One of the worst things about modern day society. Get rid of them all.

[Hank Scorpio]

It's horribly invasive.

Was it Sky News where the bloke rummaged through bags from the Malaysian Air flight shot down by Russia?

[Chrambo]

One of there reporters was doing an interview with an on site police officer, who was clearly still shaken up from what he'd seen. The reporter kept pushing him for an exclusive, being very forceful and blunt in his questions.

When they realised they weren't getting anything, the stream was cut half way through a question for the anchor to read out a tweet from Cherie Blair.

[Mikey]

Says it all when Rupert Murdoch was bragging on twitter the other day about one of his papers being the first to break the news of hostages being killed during that thing in Sydney.

Think the fact you can get instantaneous news on the internet these days and see more graphic content than before means news companies really over step a lot of boundaries to try and get the biggest scoop.

The 'by the minute' feeds you get covering these kind of events on news sites always seem bizarre to me but I get the impression from looking at social media that folk lap it up. It usually is just a collection of hearsay, scattered information and speculation.

Just seems like there a lot of fucking ghouls out there that go on about how tragic things are but really they're actually loving following the whole thing like a big TV episode.

[Zizou]

It's horribly invasive.

Was it Sky News where the bloke rummaged through bags from the Malaysian Air flight shot down by Russia?

Forgot about that one. The guy was flicking through all the passports lying around and being encouraged to do so by the studio

What is wrong with people.

[PHOODLE-OUt]

First mistake - watching Sky news. Awful.

[Charlie Kelly]

Sky News is a shambles of a news channel, absolute gutter press. Says a lot that none of the criticism being levelled at them today in the aftermath of this shocks or surprises anyone.

Kay Burley is one of the worst news presenters on the planet as well.