The BBC is ignoring the terror in Glasgow story

[proud2BlibKansan]

I have one BBC channel on my TV and a couple on my satellite radio. NONE are reporting the story about the car on fire at the Glasgow airport. At least not 24/7. I will admit I could have missed a news story. But the car fire has been blazing on CNN, MSNBC and Faux for a couple hours now. Faux is even calling this an attempt by a suicide bomber!

And BBC is airing regular programming.

Breaking news: US intelligence (NOT British) is calling this a "terrorist incident" and the US airports have increased security. Hey dipshits, Glasgow is in freakin Scotland!!

Damn I just HATE the US media.

[Greeby]

1. BBC has a 24 hour news channel on digital

So it has to be something extremely serious to pre-empt regular BBC

[proud2BlibKansan]

4. I am surfing back and forth from BBC to US news channels

BBC has regular programming on.

[proud2BlibKansan]

2. OMG Now Faux is saying this car fire is due to an IED!!

Oh no, I just realized my lawn mower is an IED! And my car is parked not far from it!!! :scared:

[tularetom]

3. Has fuxsnooze abandoned the term "homicide bomber"?

I sort of avoid watching McNews anymore but I remember a few years back faux picked up that phrase after one of bush's spokesliars used it. Nobody else did and the terms sort of died except on faux. I used to laugh at how ignorant it sounded.

[proud2BlibKansan]

6. Apparently today they have

Now they are reporting increased security at Kennebunkport.

[BurtWorm]

5. On a similar note

see this thread:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x1218930

[proud2BlibKansan]

9. Thanks!

What a nightmare. Sheesh this pisses me off. I may have to start doing drugs or something.

[supernova]

7. Pretty good summary at BBC website

Yes, it seems pretty bad, but looks like a localized incident and nobody got hurt?

[kurth]

8. 6 years of infiltration, subservience, and laziness

have conditioned them well. Every time the chimp takes a dump, it's national news. Missing blondes take precedence over the chimp's fuckups. And terra, terra, terra everywhere.

[proud2BlibKansan]

11. Okay, how long does it take to put out a car fire?

They must be looping the same footage over and over. I had no idea a car could burn that long. Sheesh the WTC collapsed from fire in less time than this.

[spanone]

10. CNN just reported that Glasgow police WON'T CALL IT A TERRORIST ATTACK

Meanwhile CNN has been reporting that IT MUST BE a terrorist attack, even citing that it was too coincidental, given the London terrorist attacks.

assholes

[proud2BlibKansan]

12. They have arrested 2 people!!

They must be terrorists.

[EarlG]

13. But why would they stop covering it? This is so exciting.

I've had CNN on for the last three hours and every time I look up I see a picture of a burning car with the words "Breaking News" under it. It must be like one of those trick birthday candles that relights after you blow it out. Unbelieveable that they haven't been able to put out a single car fire after dousing it with water for three hours!

Either that, or they put the fire out hours ago and there's really nothing to see any more. Not that you'd know that from watching CNN. Man, maybe that car's never going out.

On edit: it just happened again! Looked for a minute like they really had it under control, and then suddenly it's blazing freely again! Forget about putting it out, they should tow it away and study it as a potential new source of energy.

[proud2BlibKansan]

14. Faux and MSNBC are playing the same tape

They ought to just save money and use the same reporters and camera crew. For that matter, why do we need all these different news channels?

[TechBear_Seattle]

15. Maybe it is a spacetime anomaly?

You know, standard plot device #6 from Star Trek where some tragic event keeps getting played over and over.