Fed up of foreign news dominating our news

[sickofthenews]

I do realise the unrest in the Middle East is significant, but every bulletin is dominated by the minutiae of it.

I want to see more of what's going on here, more of what's going on in our government.

Surely there's news here?

Most people are actually capable of caring about more than one thing at a time. Imagine!

Btw I don’t watch the new anymore.

Hamas knew what they were doing when they committed genocide in Israel, Israel given their history and feeling so constantly threatened were always going to go in all guns blazing. I suspect Hamas were pushed into this by Iran/Russia to destabilise the region. The world order is being challenged on many fronts.
The situation could easily deteriorate further, who does that benefit? An all out war could very very easily tip into a world war, so yes I think it’s newsworthy.

But you can turn it off, prioritise your well being, as there is nothing you can do to change it beyond making charity donations to assist the poor innocents caught up in this unfolding crisis.

I am in Oz and have the BBC world news on right now. It is dominated by what is happening in the Lebanon, and there’s quite a bit of American election coverage too. If I want local news, I can get it on the internet, or a local news channel. But there really isn’t a huge amount of local news that is as important as Beirut right now.

I agree OP. There are quite a lots of things sliding through in UK with 5 seconds outrage before moving people's attention back to whatever is "popular disaster" atm. As pp said, manu atrocities are now going well unnoticed too because news want clicks, brutally, and ME brings clicks...

Even going on bbc uk one would think all is fine and dandy in uk. Biggest issues? Chippies should be selling veg as well. And should we tip if service wasn't great?.... 🙄

And as pp said, that's not case in all countries as well. I follow few main news providers in other countries. In my native one out of 10 main news currently, 2 are about ME, of course that rapidly changes with situation and escalations lead to more coverage including main live reporting.

The fact that people are taking piss out of someone in UK who would like more UK issues coverage is quite a testament of why this country dropped so much.

The obvious answer is that the Iran Israeli conflict is linked directly to virtually every other conflict in the world, very much including Ukraine

In my local area (SW England) we would be stretched to find anything newsworthy beyond a cat getting stuck in a tree,
We are all incredibly fortunate and what a privilege to be able to live peacefully and sleep soundly and safely at night without the fear of war and suffering.

Supporting and raising funds for aid charities. Pressuring the government to stop offensive military aid export licenses.

Try the World Service. Actually Radio is massively underrated.

It achieves more than being nasty to people who take an interest does.

Yes the BBC World Service daily podcast covers the main topics worldwide, plus a few things which are important in their respective areas but don’t necessarily make the mainstream news in other countries.

Very keen for the UK to learn more about what the rest of the world does.

We are the only country in the world that makes ourselves poorer and drives down our own living standards because of our moral and ethical priorities. It would be great if we could learn from the rest of the world to balance our economic circumstances and needs with our moral indignation.

Is it any surprise living standards and wages are falling when we have multiple policies which make ourselves poorer:

• One of the most expensive energy policy in the world. We pat ourselves on the back for having no coal power but now import regularly over 30% of our energy in sub sea cables from Europe.
• We trash our oil industry and then are surprised when loss making refineries are closed so we have to transport oil to refineries in the middle east.
• We block fracking and banned onshore wind generation (driving up transmission costs and making generation more expensive and complex out at sea)
• Have an open system of procurement for major projects which is abused by global companies who fail to use UK supply chain companies and create fewer UK jobs and apprenticeships than they initially promised.
• A welfare system accessible to 750,000 new immigrants each year who have never paid into it. (Costing taxpayers £150,000 per low wage migrant up until retirement and 483,000 if they retire here).
• The most expensive building codes and housing policies in Europe
• Reserve huge swathes of land outside cities to prevent construction driving up land prices and meaning house builders make more money from land trading than building houses.
• Childcare policies which cost so much parents are deterred from having more children (add on housing costs too)
• Red Tape and Construction market structure that means we have infrastructure that costs multiples of that in western Europe (read Sam Dumitrui and be disgusted)
• Policies that specifically deprioritise road construction leading to some roads which have an economic payback period of just one year never being built. In France a private company builds new motorways and they get on with it. They have thousands of miles of high speed rail we have 67 miles. They have multiple new bridges and river crossings built while we spend £1bn on a planning enquiry for just one. Compare the scale and size of the Ports of Dover and Calais - it's a joke.
• A government that accepts and lets hundreds of miles of motorway lanes be closed for months at a time (M1 in particular)
• A failed court system because our approach to justice and law enforcement is no longer fit for purpose. Two years wait for minor court cases (things which can stop people buying houses).

How can we attract investment and increase productivity when we do this? We are getting poorer every year.

We need to learn from the rest of the world and expect politicians to be on our side. It's clearly ridiculous to have policies which lead to the owners of steel plants here closing plants in the UK and opening ones in India to make the same type of steal that was made here. Improving living standards for British citizens should be a higher priority.

I agree with this.

The news here always focus on that part of the world. There is always a war going on there as well. So you can imagine now that there is much worse it has bigger coverage.

It is like when people say we are a diverse country here. However, the biggest numbers of immigration comes only from one or two areas.

We are all incredibly fortunate and what a privilege to be able to live peacefully and sleep soundly and safely at night without the fear of war and suffering.

Is this a joke?

I can think of many demographics that won't be sleeping 'soundly and safely' in the uk

it is mot a joke to say we are not at war, it is fact.
What ‘demographics’ are at war and are lyiing in bed fearing they might lose their lives due to bombings in the U.K.?

Maybe you misunderstood my post.

I'm the opposite. I want more reporting of global news.
Yes, it's important to cover UK stories too but the conflict in the middle East is enormously significant and risks turning into a much wider conflict that will have a profound impact on not just the region but the whole world. Of course I want to hear about it.

Ive given up watching the news. If I want to know about it, I'll just read a thread one of the ghouls on here has made.

This 24 stream of misery into our brains isn't good for us I don't think.

I don’t watch the news. This county is fucked as it is and priority is elsewhere

yes its important. Not not to me.

we have issues in this country which need addressing.

Wow. You don’t care that 3 million people have been made homeless. That more children have been killed by Israel in the last year than in all global conflicts in the last five. You’re only concerned about the impact on YOUR life?? Good grief.

If you don't want the world news could you not just tune in for the local news? Why watch something you don't want to wanting?

They were all over the news when the conflicts began or when they escalated, just like Ukraine. I remember very clearly watching the first Iraq war on TV every might after school for weeks, I remember it clearly because my dm was in hospital and I wanted to talk to her about it because it seemed really scary to me as a child.

You could read dons newspapers

I agree with this

The BBC News at 6 (which is what I usually watch, yes I do realise more news is available) is 15 minutes of reporting from the ME, interviews with locals and even children. Then a quick round up of the 'rest of the news' and that's it. Every bloody night.
I said in my OP it was important. What irritates me is banging on and on with so little other news.

Having a quick flick over the front pages of today's papers there are plenty of front page stories about other topics.

The Independent - rail projects being axed
The Guardian - Al Fayed
Express - Fuel payments
Daily record - school violence
The Mirror - Strictly
FT - Rachael reeves and the budget
The Times - worker rights changes
Daily mail - Falklands
The Sun - Ulrika Johnson

Yes there is a lot of coverage about the Middle East but that's because the situation is progressively getting worse, and pretty rapidly. The players are not limited to just the countries in the region either. The major world players are drawing up in two teams, with the Middle East as the stadium right now, as seems to happen again and again.