AIBU to be wondering why my BBC news feed if full of storm Irma stuff?

[DoryDingDong]

I don't live in Florida, is there so little UK news to report that we have to obsess over the weather in another country?
Also, why so much coverage of this particular storm when so many more horrendous natural disasters go un reported all over the world?
Is this that news worthy or has the media lost perspective entirely?

I agree OP. Minimal coverage of the 1400 people who have died in flooding in India and Bangladesh, wall to wall coverage of this.

Part of the reason that the focus is on Florida right now is because there is little/no communication with many of the small islands already hit.

DH is in the military and has spent the last few days working with the teams coordinating the flights out of the UK with supplies and personnel. They're sending aircraft with no idea if they can even land on some of the islands - if the airstrips are not safe they're going to have to divert elsewhere in the Caribbean and try to fly supplies/people out on smaller aircraft/helicopters.

@Lelloteddy

Don't be silly.

Yabu.

For information/avoidance of doubt, I'm a market researcher. Nothing to do with the BBC

GaucheCaviar
Exactly this! 1400 people and sure it has been reported but to nowhere near this scale. Why though? I am bewildered by so many people missing this point.
It's all newsworthy. All of it. The notion that Florida should dominate our news so much more due to reasons people are mentioning just doesn't seem ethically right to me.
I do know there are other stories in the news too, yes I can scroll, but if you read what I am saying you will understand I am talking about the percentage of coverage of this story, the dominance of it.

Partly institutional racism, partly access issues - it'll be harder and more expensive to get reports from the ground in Bangladesh than Miami.

True I'm sure

At least all the hurricane coverage might just stop fellow Brits moaning about our own weather for a change.

the coverage from uk media is making a way bigger deal about Florida than the islands just flattened, why?

Because that's where it is right now. That's why.

Yes, obviously
But when it was over the islands it wasn't live streaming and dominating airtime to the extent it has today.
Whilst today it has even been downgraded to category three.

Disneyland

It's headed to California now?

DoryDingDong

Exactly this! 1400 people and sure it has been reported but to nowhere near this scale. Why though? I am bewildered by so many people missing this point.

I'd have a lot more respect for you and the point you're trying to make if you'd also referenced this story specifically, instead of just complaining about the focus on Florida.

I've been wondering this, the lack of coverage of the 1400 people dead in Asian flooding has been confusing me over the past few days, Irma has killed 25 (and I sincerely hope there are no more). And for arguments sake there are probably more ex pats of India in the U.K. than Americans. So why all the interest?
I get that it's a huge event, I want to be made aware of all international events though and the myopic focus on the states is just odd.
(I do like the US, I've lived there but still don't get it).

BIWI
May come as a shock to you but your respect is of no importance to me whatsoever.
I don't like the way our media is controlling what information we are fed / pumped / exposed to.
Yes we can dig for more but most people don't.
I don't have to reference shit.
Today is just one example in my opinion.
That's all.

mogulfield, absolutely. It's not about being uncaring or insensitive. In fact it's the opposite. Why does it seem that some humans are more newsworthy than others? The replies to this question on here have been so disturbing.

Why not ask the BBC directly? Tweet at them or post in the FB page.

FGS

But it isn't about some humans being more newsworthy than others. That's what you can't/won't grasp.

The news stories focus - they have to! - on what's happening right now. That's what news is all about.

And to say that they're not reporting on stories other than Florida, as you have, simply isn't true.

You can't live stream from a country that's had all its communications taken down, which is what happened to most islands. And even if you could, you won't get much information as most sensible souls were in shelters or fleeing from buildings that were being destroyed around them.

Right now, on BBC News24, they're reporting a story about child burials in Lanarkshire. A story about long-buried/suspected child abuse.

BIWI
So the floods in India were covered at the time (or since) to the same extent by the media then?
Erm no.
It is nothing to do with what is happening in the moment. Nor is it to do with what we care about or are interested in. It's to do with what the media want to feed us.

And seriously BIWI it is about the dominance of this story not that others aren't being reported on. Can you understand that?

And seriously BIWI it is about the dominance of this story not that others aren't being reported on. Can you understand that?

I think I've already pointed out that others are being reported on. Did you not understand that?

My top news page covers Florida, the islands and then general U.K. News.

YABU.