Bbc News

[lankeela]

breaks off story about people dying in Indonesia after earthquake to tell us that FA won't tell captains to wear armbands - get your priorities right BBC!

[youngmafbog]

For them (the BBC) they have.

What else would you expect?

[jno]

BBC puts British news first? Awful.

[Hopkirk]

So they had already told you about the earthquake?

[-SharonA-]

Agree as I was watching news last night & football came before the reports of a house fire & shooting in USA.

[Canary42]

Anti-BBC Brigade scraping the barrel, as usual.

[Yeoma]

I think that is a little unwarranted Canary. The BBC lost its impartiality a long time ago. News is news and football is sport.

[lankeela]

It was right in the middle of someone from Indonesia explaining what was happening and they cut him off and said we've got some breaking news! Dozen dead and over 700 injured so far yet they think its more important to report on something to do with football.

[lankeela]

Dozens dead.

[sp1814]

Was this on the main news channel? Like on the Six O’Clock News or was it on the News 24 service?

[sp1814]

Yeoma

The BBC is impartial. The BBC a news output falls over itself to ensure voices are heard to firm a balanced output - even if those are the voices of imbeciles.

[fitdarren]

I loathe football, it takes over from everything and we have weeks and weeks of this carp.

[DTCwordfan]

Qatar will be major headline news if England keep on slotting them home as they have done in the last ten minutes....

[youngmafbog]

//The BBC is impartial.//

There is always one comedian.

[perseverer]

Not sure this had anything to do with being impartial. Getting priorities wrong perhaps, but, sad to say, many viewers would be far more interested in anything football, and particularly England football, related than some tragedy thousands of miles away.

[Ellipsis]

On bias - where does your preferred news outlet sit ...

https://adfontesmedia.com/static-mbc/