[bots]

Originally Posted by Cherie

Does anyone else get sick of the level of reporting, do we really need to hear stories of people running for their lives and being trapped etc, I find it all a bit too much and as for statements like...we will need to review security ...eh? Didn't that happen after Paris and the last lockdown in Brussels..

it feeds the terrorists i think. It should just be factual reporting, nothing more

[Ithinkiloveyoutoo]

Originally Posted by Ninastar

I read that we've actually stopped quite a few events from happening. We use a lot more intelligence and military police than Paris/Brussels do so I think we're pretty safe. However, you cant prevent everything unfortunately.

Oh yes I remember hearing this. Hopefully it is the truth and not fibs. But still doesn't bring much comfort as to what could happen.

[Josy]

Originally Posted by Cherie

Does anyone else get sick of the level of reporting, do we really need to hear stories of people running for their lives and being trapped etc, I find it all a bit too much and as for statements like...we will need to review security ...eh? Didn't that happen after Paris and the last lockdown in Brussels..

Yup. It's essentially scaremongering and basically doing exactly what the terrorists want by causing the public to be panicked, scared, worried and so on.

I know people need to be aware of the dangers but the media completely wring any incidents completely dry just so they have something to broadcast.

[Will.]

This world is becoming a lost cause.

[EspeonBB]

This is so sad. RIP

[Cherie]

Originally Posted by Northern Monkey

News channels are milking this story for everything it's got.Viewers viewers viewers

I know but trading on death, it's so distasteful, not to mention the terrorists who must love every gory detail

[Livia]

Originally Posted by Cherie

I know but trading on death, it's so distasteful, not to mention the terrorists who must love every gory detail

Got to agree. I just heard a reporter talking over footage shot just after the explosion who described the people in the airport as "cowering in fear". Bet IS love that kind of lazy, sensationalist reporting. What I saw in that footage, in fact, was people taking cover and not panicking.

[Shaun]

I dunno if I follow the whole "playing into their hands" theory with regard to panicked eyewitness testimony - I don't know how many more terrorists are going to look at news footage and take it as direct inspiration. Like if you're already thinking "let's blow myself up for my cause" this is going to be a very minor factor if one at all. But I assume these weren't suicide bombings so maybe there's some validity, I don't know - I just think if you're going to bomb in the name of IS, or in protest against Abdeslam being incarcerated/other "western" acts that conflict with your worldview, a bunch of news footage isn't going to matter so much.

But I do agree there's too much "live" stuff in general from a taste level - I don't think there's much credibility in scrambling for the quickest mobile phone-caught footage available. I do wonder how much of it is just news corporations trying to compete against each other for exclusives rather than a legitimate interest in their own content.

[arista]

Originally Posted by Will.

This world is becoming a lost cause.

No Young Will.
We are Stronger than the Terrorists


That Belgium Nation has 2 Police forces
2 languages,
and they do not get on
Ref: Frank Gardener - BBC Security Top Expert (speaking on radio 5 )
he got shot in the back
in Arabia
so he knows so much more
after being so close to the Terrorists

[MTVN]

News channels are just doing their job I think,its important to have rolling coverage of a situation like this because it is ongoing, its still not really clear how it happened and we have an ever rising death toll. Its also important to discuss whether security measures have been adequate, its quite well known that Belgian intelligence leaves a lot to be desired and that there's been problems with extremism in the country for a long time (not that its always going to be possible to prevent terror attacks whatever steps you take). The more information the better imo.

[Cherie]

Originally Posted by MTVN

News channels are just doing their job I think,its important to have rolling coverage of a situation like this because it is ongoing, its still not really clear how it happened and we have an ever rising death toll. Its also important to discuss whether security measures have been adequate, its quite well known that Belgian intelligence leaves a lot to be desired and that there's been problems with extremism in the country for a long time (not that its always going to be possible to prevent terror attacks whatever steps you take). The more information the better imo.

I have no problem with that kind if information being broadcast it is important to know if they have moved on from suicide bombers to leaving devices to be detonated remotely etc, what I find unnecessary is the stories about the victims their injuries, and basically the gory details that add nothing, a bit like slowing down to see a car crash, it doesn't help anyone

[Will.]

Originally Posted by arista

No Young Will.
We are Stronger than the Terrorists


That Belgium Nation has 2 Police forces
2 languages,
and they do not get on
Ref: Frank Gardener - BBC Security Top Expert (speaking on radio 5 )
he got shot in the back
in Arabia
so he knows so much more
after being so close to the Terrorists

Ah ok.

Thanks, Arista.

[arista]

Will
try to get LBC radio on
that Lady presenting her show texted her Niece
and told her not to take the London Tube today.

Now we have no threats
but she felt like telling all ,
what she did early AM

[arista]

Originally Posted by Cherie

I have no problem with that kind if information being broadcast it is important to know if they have moved on from suicide bombers to leaving devices to be detonated remotely etc, what I find unnecessary is the stories about the victims their injuries, and basically the gory details that add nothing, a bit like slowing down to see a car crash, it doesn't help anyone

I hope you flick through other News Channels
as France24 News is good
and thats free online as well.


For me I
5 Live TV's
Plus to 2 Live Streams via Computers
so a much wider view begins


Good job they found a Unexploded Belt Bomb
now with Police

[Crimson Dynamo]

Originally Posted by arista

I hope you flick through other News Channels
as France24 News is good
and thats free online as well.


For me I
5 Live TV's
Plus to 2 Live Streams via Computers
so a much wider view begins

I have 5 live and LBC on plus I looked at CNN, Fox, BBC News, SkyNews as well as Euronews and Bloomberg

Online I have MO and BBC

[arista]

Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet

I have 5 live and LBC on plus I looked at CNN, Fox, BBC News, SkyNews as well as Euronews and Bloomberg

Online I have MO and BBC

Yes LT
we can get as bigger picture
Markets get effected by Terrorism

[DemolitionRed]

Tragic, tragic news and of course, this is in the run up to a major Christian festival.

[arista]

Originally Posted by DemolitionRed

Tragic, tragic news and of course, this is in the run up to a major Christian festival.

Yes thats not good

[Cherie]

I turned it all off took my dog for a walk in the spring sunshine and turned on Escape to the country

[Crimson Dynamo]

Originally Posted by Cherie

I turned it all off took my dog for a walk in the spring sunshine and turned on Escape to the country

was it the one I was on with exmrsLT?

[Mokka]

Originally Posted by Cherie

I turned it all off took my dog for a walk in the spring sunshine and turned on Escape to the country

Yeah... I don't know how to take watching it "unfold live" ... just makes you feel helpless

I turned to the the Canadian Budget coverage instead... a different type of tragedy imo

[arista]

From the DM

[The trio were apparently captured on CCTV in the minutes before 14 people died
and dozens more were maimed in the check-in area. Belgian media said the two men
on the left had blown themselves up and the third suspect, wearing a hat,
is believed to have left a nail bomb and fled]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...detonated.html



There Faces - from SkyNews

http://news.sky.com/story/1664931/br...ctv-at-airport

[Rob!]

It's getting to the stage where this sort of thing isn't even shocking anymore. When will this ever end?

[arista]

Originally Posted by Rob!

It's getting to the stage where this sort of thing isn't even shocking anymore. When will this ever end?

It will End when Isis get there
Own Nation, I assume

[Samm]

This is so sad