Friday 29 May 2009

BBC News and its bizarre priorities

Radio Guardian's main morning news at 0800 often has odd, if not unique, top stories.

Today it's the inevitable fact that mosquitoes are becoming resistant to the current best drug.
Only 3 sites are shown on Google News with this "scoop" - 2 are specialized health sites and one is - BBC News.

Meanwhile 1000s of organs report on Ceylon/Pakistan/North Korea/GM-Opel-Vauxhall.

Gradually, during the day, the story will slip down the BBC running order and disappear by evening.

And for this we pay £3 billion!

Saturday - not really. Total number of sites covering story has crept up to 45 on Google News.