Is This Really A Leading News Story?

[Playbill]

The first item, the lead story on today's The World at One on BBC radio 4, was that a football club manager had resigned. After hearing that and with the prospect of having to listen to the opinions of numerous people discussing this 'sensational' news I switched off my radio.

I wonder if there will be time to fit in any real news on today's programme?

[viv38]

Annoyed me too when it was the first thing I heard on radio news this morning !

[delboy3]

Because it's Manchester United, the media are all over them. Any other team, and it might be a footnote.

[frugalfred]

And BBC1 1pm News spent the first 5 minutes on this irrelevant tripe.

[Daffy6543]

I thought he was sacked.

[Playbill]

Exactly, viv. I had also heard the same thing at 8 am. So how it warrants being a leading news item five hours later is ridiculous.

[emmie]

biggest club, so i guess to some it is

[diddlydo]

Totally agree with you all. This is the BBC descending to the level of The Sun.

[viv38]

It'll be top news all day Playbill and no doubt top news on TV this evening !!

[scooping]

It's of interest to a lot of people. It's what one of the definitions of news is.

[Baldric]

Just wondering why this rather petulant sounding and inaccurate post is in the News section in the first place.
Resigned, He was Sacked!
From BBC News:-
///David Moyes: Manchester United manager sacked by club///

[royfromaus]

Is This Really A Leading News Story?



Well the story has attracted the attentions of at least three different AB posters, who all thought it worthy of a thread. Not many news stories do that.

[ToraToraTora]

strange as it may seem many people do follow soccerball.

[Playbill]

So he was sacked rather than resigning: shows how much this means to me and, I would imagine, the great majority of listeners and the rest of the world.
It is a sports story that of no interest or relevance to those who do not support the team. Except to start a discussion like this royfromaus.

[royfromaus]

I do not understand your last post at all, Playbill.


"It is a sports story that of no interest or relevance"

I hear a multitude of news items each day that are of no interest or relevance. I never feel the need to post about those, because they are of no interest and of no relevance.

[Arksided]

It is important as pointed out one of the biggest clubs in the world... what would you prefer some mass killing or drivel about the royals.

[youngmafbog]

It is rather arrogant to expect the BBC to pamper to your particular view on a news item. You may not like it but tax (licence) payers are also football supporters and are entitled to hear about an important item such as this.

And no, I dont watch or support football. I am simply recognizing there is more to the world than my singular view.

[Ken4155]

I am not particularly keen on Man Utd but i do realise that there is more to this than football as the club are a stock market commodity. Anything that may affect the value of shares must be deemed newsworthy. And, at least, it's taken Kate's hemline and tubby Prince George off the front pages.

[sandyRoe]

It's a quiet news day.

[Ric.ror]

Well it's quite upsetting news for some people

[jno]

it's a company rather than a club, but even so, the sacking of the boss at, say, Tesco would be on top of the business news page, not the general news page; and I'd expect ManU news to be big on the sports page but lower down on the main front pages.

In fact it's only just in the last hour been demoted on the BBC website's main page, overtaken by the torture and death of a Ukrainian politician.

Even on the Guardian's front page it's only listed as the lead sports story:

http://www.theguardian.com/uk

I think the BBC's gone over the top.