Seem to have hung, drawn and quartered this guy in Portugal who is being SPOKEN TO by Portuguese police and who has not been arrested.

They are assuming HE must have to have been involved because "he has a glass eye" and "a twitch". I'm sure Chris Morris has lampooned this sort of thing....

Journalism on this channel is at an all time low, have they been taking lessons from Fox News?

We have it on as well.
Don`t forget they are the "sister" channell to Fox news.

News Corp, the company headed by Rupert Murdoch owns Sky and Fox.

His ownership of multiple media outlets is troubling. Political parties are overly concerned with "wot the Sun says" and it cannot be good.

Your Chris Morris comparison is very apt... unfortunately.

Hang on a moment; there was a man on breakfast TV this morning coming up with vote catching remarks like "I can't begin to imagine how the parents must feel" and other cliches and HE HAD A GLASS EYE!

Blimey trust JK to find my hidden message!!

JK2006 wrote:
Hang on a moment; there was a man on breakfast TV this morning coming up with vote catching remarks like "I can't begin to imagine how the parents must feel" and other cliches and HE HAD A GLASS EYE!

...but no twitch.

...but he does have a foreign accent.

No twitch? NO TWITCH? That thing he does with his jaw is the TWITCH OF THE CENTURY!

There is one thing incredibly overlooked by Sky News.

For them to be "the leading news channel", they really need to go more regional as well.
We put it on in the morning as we find Eamon quite fun, but there is no effort made to include local traffic reports or even local stories, which GMTV and BBC cover.

I can`t see why they do not make this traditional move, we need to know when the motorway is shut etc and so we turn over or put the radio on.

They are also missing out on regional advertising also by ignoring that piece of the marketplace.
About 50% of the adverts on Sky are for their own products anyway.

And yes Zoo, it is frightening how much news power Mr Murdoch has, I shall dig out Mrs Marts lecture on it one day.
It regularly stuns young people.

BBC News 24 spent the first 20 minutes of last night's 11pm bulletin live from outside of a portugese villa telling us that they think something might be happening but they could not tell us what. The reported kept recycling the same non information to keep the story going, plus they showed the same interviews and bits of film twice. Then .. back to the studio where the chap 'reminded' us of all the stuff the on-the-spot reporter had told us, after which he thought he'd better just - before moving on to other stories - remind us again ......

I turned over to Russia Today, the English language news channel from Moscow, where I leaned of people being rescued from a ferry disaster off Alaska, thick fog grounding aircraft in Sydney, and several other interesting news stories from around the world, all within less time that the BBC spent telling us that nothing much new had happened in Portugal.

The Sun online is making thinly veiled accusations. Is it any surprise that a journalist tipped off police? I imagine the thicker ex-pat Sun readers over there are already setting up the lynch mobs!

steveimp wrote:
Seem to have hung, drawn and quartered this guy in Portugal who is being SPOKEN TO by Portuguese police and who has not been arrested.

They are assuming HE must have to have been involved because "he has a glass eye" and "a twitch". I'm sure Chris Morris has lampooned this sort of thing....

Journalism on this channel is at an all time low, have they been taking lessons from Fox News?

Hi folks ... sorry not posted for awhile but like everyone else on the planet I've been holding a prayer vigil for Madeleine !!!!!

The latest developments in Portugal are quite interesting. Are the media "helping the story along" perhaps?

After 12 days of reporting the same story every single day (has it only been 12 days? It seems like 12 years) - are the media "nudding" the story along?

After initially attacking the Portuguese police (for not co-operating with the tabloid media maybe?) the media are now driving the agenda !

The reporter who alerted the police to this man - how come she notices that he is "suspicious" and no one else apparently does?

Presumably she didn't even arrive until after the event? Has his "suspcious" behaviour escaped the notice of all the other locals and local police?