The BBC’s Shaky Coverage Of That UK Earthquake
DAVE Lee sees the earthquake that shook the UK on Sky News within 15 minutes. He lives in Lincoln, close to the epicentre.
Meanwhile the BBC fails to even mention the UK earthquake a full half an hour after it happened.
This was the earthquake brought on by global warming…
Posted: 1st, March 2008 | In: Global Warming, Terrible TV Comments (4) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed: RSS 2.0 | TrackBack | Permalink
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March 3rd, 2008 at 11:16 am
Global warming eh! wait for it more taxes imposed upon us.
March 2nd, 2008 at 3:38 pm
Oh, I forgot to mention …..
Apparently a number of parrots/budgies fell off their perch !!!!
March 2nd, 2008 at 1:43 pm
One local Manchester radio station had listeners ringing in the regale us all with their tales of terror.
Oh, how we gasped with awe as Sharon from Droylsden told us that “me wardrobe doors rattled, and the cat jumped off the bed”.
Or we marvelled at the stoicism of Terry from Beswick as he relieved his night of terror when faced with ” …a big noise, and a bottle of shampoo fell off the bathroon shelf into the bath. I thought the whole house was coming down!”
I’m still waiting for the next tsunami to come up the Manchester Ship Canal, and wet someone’s feet outside the Lowry Centre.
March 2nd, 2008 at 1:29 pm
The strongest earthquake to hit the UK for umpteen years and the local TV station here in the Midlands (GMTV) was desperately appealing for anyone, anywhere to come up with any photograph showing some damage caused by the quake. A hapless reporter was eventually pictured standing next to a house with a cracked chimney pot and a pile of 1/2 a dozen bricks lying on the ground outside the house. (No evidence produced to refute the suspicion that the handful of bricks on the pavement had been there before the earthquake hit). The residents of the house which had sufferred such devastation following the strongest earthquake to hit the UK for umpteen years were not interviewed about their narrow escape - they were, apparently, still abed.
Sadly, for the TV companies, the largest earhquake to hit the UK in umpteen years was a bit of a ‘damp squib’