BBC Not Interested
15/01/07 23:16
One thing I
noticed about the coverage of the awful Wexford
trawler tragedy is the almost complete lack of
interest in the story from the BBC's online news. I
just did a search through the entries for the
BBC's main news
feed, and not one
reference to the story came up. (There are 562
entries in the reader going back to 2 January.)
You can be sure that if seven fishermen were drowned in a sinking off the coast of Indonesia, or seven miners drowned in a flooded mine in Ecuador, it would get coverage. But not when the tragedy happens off the coast of Ireland.
I eventually found earlier today it in the Northern Ireland section. (It's dropped out of the feed now.)
So it's a regional story then, as opposed to an international one? Glad that's settled.
You can be sure that if seven fishermen were drowned in a sinking off the coast of Indonesia, or seven miners drowned in a flooded mine in Ecuador, it would get coverage. But not when the tragedy happens off the coast of Ireland.
I eventually found earlier today it in the Northern Ireland section. (It's dropped out of the feed now.)
So it's a regional story then, as opposed to an international one? Glad that's settled.