BBC: Lemming-like obsession with the BIG news story

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I love BBC radio but OMG, when there's a big story, it's all R4 & R5 talk about. Literally to exclusion of anything else (sometimes sport & traffic get a look in).

Yes the flat fire is The Most Important Story: but not the only story worth knowing about. Ditto the London/Westminster bridge attacks. There must be a way to sensitively to cover other items with the intro "In other news..." like newscasts used to do. Often there isn't anything new to add to what they have been saying for last half hour/day/week....

Is it just me or does anyone else despair? I've taken to following Al Jazeera on Twitter to find out what is happening in the world outside UK/USA today's biggest news/treated as only news.

Just you I think

Nah, just you.

Agree with the OP. When the media become obsessed with one big story they do it to death interviewing everyone and their dog and fanning it whilst the rest of the world is ignored.
It's like they feel because it's a big story their coverage of it has to be big even when there isn't much extra to say about it.

or like they think it's disrespectful to mention that other things are happening in the world (that people might want to know about).

I feel for the Manchester, Borough Market and Grenfell House victims. I do.

But all of a sudden, it's as if nothing is happening anywhere else.

Shia mosques and landmarks blown to smithereens in the Middle East? Nope
Not happening.

Civilian casualties in Raqqua? Never happened.

The latest reports from America about Cuba. Nope.

I'm sure it's not just you, but certainly I want to know how this huge story is developing. Like most of the country I was sickened and appalled at this needless loss of life and I can:t get it out of my mind. To want coverage to diminish is, I feel, disrespectful to those who have lost everything and to the tragic victims.

I suspect it's particularly big because it happened in London where the media is. I doubt a fire in Glasgow would have got the same amount of publicity. Would the media have tried getting everyone to blame the SNP and Nicola then?

I don't think the coverage about fall-out from the tower fire would be diminished by informing us about other news.

I think the news has been like this ever since Twin Towers fell. I don't think the news was like this in the 70s-80s-most of 90s, at least.

Madel-McCann story. Dozens of girls probably went missing forever that month in the world, but we only heard about one. It's like somebody has decided that most people only listen to 5 minutes of news a day (and that only in 30 second bursts) so that 5 minutes needs to cover ONLY something that has been declared biggest story & the rest be hanged.

I agree with you, OP