In the news

In the context of media/client interest, I would agree. When people are poring over our history in 50-100 years time, though, I think it'll be austerity they're reading about.

I guess I don't equate demand with worthiness; 'importance' is not necessarily driven by what's popular, in my view, even if on a commercial level it is.

It is a multi-faceted organisation that has a news 'wing'.

An American journalist once told me (over 15 years ago) that it was the BBC World Service to whom they looked to verify their stories as there was a perception of impartiality and trustworthiness towards it. Whether or not that still stands...

there are certain news sources that will make a point of avoiding the fluffier stuff, whereas others will embrace it completely.

Those are editorial decisions and those decisions are made by people. Those people are motivated by different things. The idea that a definition of news, and thereby newsworthiness, is flawed because people are involved, instead of numbers, is pretty untenable.

You have made two points here

Just because loads of people want to see pictures of members of the Royal Family sitting on a bench doesn't make it any more newsworthy than an austerity march

And

Surely the sheer number suggests that the matter is being taken very seriously and continues to be newsworthy.

You can't use the weight of numbers both against and for your standard of newsworthiness.

Government and IT innit?

The same government that doesn't want to implement a relationship/sex-ed curriculum... cos you just ban it, which never worked instead of education about it right? Esp. as internet porn is way easier to get than old skool rifling through libraries/getting chased out of book stories so information is needed very badly imho.

With the decline of print media I just don't think there'll be enough wrinkled, smutty magazines in bushes or up trees anymore to meet demand.

I'm pissed off by that fucking bench being off centered.

It's the camera that's off centre not the bench. If such things sadden you it's also worth noting that it's not level either.

Wait, there was a protest?

didn't see it in the papers so probably not

...and another plane has gone missing. Boo.

https://www.flightradar24.com/data/flights/ms804/#9c0b766

Somewhere in the Southern Med, an area full of military and coastguard boats with a shit ton of military radar watching everything. Looks like it will be a tragic outcome but hopefully not a protracted wait for the families.

:(

@shinkuu_kiss did a Lynchman plate, are you thinking of that?

I can't find the picture.

Doesn't this reading of what is "newsworthy" ignore that the news not only reports on events but informs public perceptions of them.

Surely if the mainstream media chose to narrativise a series of international anti-austerity protests as an important part of a wider anti-establishment movement then people would be more likely to take it seriously. It's a bit circular to say that a protest isn't newsworthy because it didn't achieve anything.

"Ah look yet another protest..."... bbbbbbbbbboring.

It's about marketing. Moronic posts and outrage or something fun get more attention than "yet another protest that has no result". (especially on t'internet...where it's quite bad) attention = revenue.

Yes cos Rome was built in one day...

What did the French do again a few hundred years ago...I bet the BBC would be all over that... ;)

Surely if the mainstream media chose to narrativise a series of international anti-austerity protests as an important part of a wider anti-establishment movement then people would be more likely to take it seriously

What, like Occupy and 15-M?

Pretty sure the media was all over those. One fizzled out, the other produced Podemos which has seats in parliament.

How does the 16 April demo compare to either?

relax everyone! donald trump has solved the mystery of the missing egypt air plane. is there nothing the orange, dog haired fascist won't speculate on to serve his own shitty agenda?

Does he sign off all his missives with 'Great hate and sickness'?

Great Hate AND Sickness = G HANDS

tiny girl hands confirmed

G HANDS

= Guy Hands

= Founder of Terra Firma Capital Partners

= Terror Firm, Capital Punishment

= Δ luminarti confirmed! Δ

G HANDS = G(RAVY) HANDS = SLOW HAND = ERIC CLAPTON

The and is a red herring. It's GHS, an international way of labelling hazardous chemicals and other toxic substances.

how many planes is that to go down this year? surely this shouldn't be news.

etc.

Wow. A bunch of innocent people just died, but it's still about you and your protest-that-got-covered-insufficiently-relative-to-your-sense-of-self-importance?

just following your logic to it's natural conclusion, but you keep it up with the self righteous indignation, champ.