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?

I fully believe we need to report on significant foreign conflicts in a fair and balanced way.

However.....it has to be realised we live in a much more diverse country than 40 years ago when I as a child watched endless reports on the Lebanese civil war (Google it).

When we have a constant reporting of a foreign conflicts where it is quite obvious members of one religious group have faced quite large death tolls and the media portrays this quite explicitly then there are impacts on our society.

I think this feeds through to the often sectarian marches across the country often with a vengeance filled undertone. There are children in schools questioning why they learn about the holocaust in history when there is a 'genocide' occuring right now. I think this is worrying and we have to query the wisdom of people feeling fundamentally aligned more to foreign states than our own.

Focusing on things outside your sphere of influence is parochial.

Making sure your neighbour has enough food is just being a decent human being

Thanks, I see now.

You do realise that if it gets much worse, we are at risk for ww3?

@FiddlyDiddlyDee

Making sure your neighbour has enough food is just being a decent human being

yes that is very important. And given the UK imports nearly half its food supply keeping an eye on overseas news and events such as wars which may destabilise this supply is really rather important too wouldn’t you say?

these pesky forriners that grow food to feed us. Whatever will they do next - move here and fill the jobs due to our workforce skills gap?

Firstly can you stop calling half my family in the Middle East pesky foreigners. It's fairly typical of people with white guilt to assume things about others, so I'll assume that's where you're coming from.

Secondly you seem to think your sphere of influence extends to stopping wars from happening by monitoring global news, instead of monitoring your neighbours, local community etc. to see if you can contribute anything. The former is fairly easy and results in writing sarcastic posts on forums, the latter is difficult but might actually give you some sense of accomplishment and alleviate your guilt.

Your posts make no sense at all.

you have made assumption on assumption but that is a classic deflection tactic. Persistently focusing one one moral crusade - save the NHS then a new one - feed your elderly neighbour to disguise your intolerance of news which you don’t appear to have the logic to understand reply impacts both issues you are deflecting to.

and don’t be ridiculous suggesting I think by simply watching the news I can change things. I learn and I take actions (boycotting, donating, voting preferences) to try to help these issues. We need to put pressure on our politicians to stop supporting both genocidal state players and terrorists.

but it is utterly pointless and rather wearisome continuing this debate with you. But I do hope your family are not in Gaza or Lebanon or Yemen.

Oh the donations argument is wheeled out now. How predictable.

When you read the news update this morning what action did you take? Did you make another donation? Boycott something? Vote for something?

What about this afternoon's update? Are you taking further action every time something gets updated on the live feed?

What about yesterday, what action did you take on the news update?

What about the day before, the day before that, or every day for the past year? Have you taken action every time a middle east news article is posted as the headline on the bbc?

You are so full of it it's unreal. All you are is someone who just sits back and digests this news like a voyeur and gets on a high horse on a forum because you have nothing to offer your local community or Country.