Spy Plot Thickens
This story's now turning into rather a big thing. For starters, I've never seen Channel 4 News run a 'Breaking News' graphic during a bulletin. Yep, it's getting that bad.
It's also sparked a flurry of, frankly, half-arsed analysis by UK journalists surfing the net to report how the Russian media isn't covering the story. More 4 news had a brave attempt this evening at showing that, until the bloke had died, there was hardly a comment; things had changed. No, the Russian media are not ignoring the story. It just wasn't on their radar for a while (the UK media are guilty of that from time to time too, you know). I would presume that now an Italian academic who met Litvinenko in London has been found to be contaminated with polonium 210, the same analysis will be tagged to the Italian media. Bring on the stereotyping, me thinks.
Of course, the frantic speculation by health, science and security experts continues unabated in amongst graphic over-load. Desperate pleas for information are abound - were you on one of the aircraft? Did you eat in Itsu? Did you stay at the hotel? Tell us your story, send us your pictures.... Is it me, but I have't seen any response bar one bloke who spoke to daytime Radio Five Live. Maybe I'm just watching the wrong bulletins or being blinded by the breaking news graphics.
There's nothing much else in the UK news agenda at present, so the frenzy is likely to continue over the weekend.
It's also sparked a flurry of, frankly, half-arsed analysis by UK journalists surfing the net to report how the Russian media isn't covering the story. More 4 news had a brave attempt this evening at showing that, until the bloke had died, there was hardly a comment; things had changed. No, the Russian media are not ignoring the story. It just wasn't on their radar for a while (the UK media are guilty of that from time to time too, you know). I would presume that now an Italian academic who met Litvinenko in London has been found to be contaminated with polonium 210, the same analysis will be tagged to the Italian media. Bring on the stereotyping, me thinks.
Of course, the frantic speculation by health, science and security experts continues unabated in amongst graphic over-load. Desperate pleas for information are abound - were you on one of the aircraft? Did you eat in Itsu? Did you stay at the hotel? Tell us your story, send us your pictures.... Is it me, but I have't seen any response bar one bloke who spoke to daytime Radio Five Live. Maybe I'm just watching the wrong bulletins or being blinded by the breaking news graphics.
There's nothing much else in the UK news agenda at present, so the frenzy is likely to continue over the weekend.
posted by The Stoat | 19:26
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