This morning's top 3 news headlines (in 4 categories) published on the BBC World App:
TOP STORIES
Save the Children Fund halts Afghan programmes
What it was like to face Larry Nassar
Elton John to make statement on future
MOST POPULAR
Wozniacki beats Martens to reach final
Wolff predicts Vettel rumours
Grumpy cat wins $710,000 coffee lawsuit
WORLD NEWS
Trump 'looking forward' to Russia probe
University head quits in gymnast abuse row
Schools shut amid Bollywood protest
UK
Free water in England to cut plastic waste
Minister reprimanded over men-only gala
Edmund v Cilic for place in Australian final
Nothing new in the West*
*
A correct translation of Erich Remarque's book title
A correct translation of Erich Remarque's book title
known in English as 'All Quiet on the Western Front'.
post-scriptum:
I decided to give the good old BBC a chance at redemption.
There are BBC reporters scurrying about everywhere in our service. I've seen their many amazing adverts. Reporters braving smoke and fire to bring us the facts via all those red lines from the whole globe pouring unceasingly the BBC News studio. Hot news constantly updated:
Obviously I'd been looking for the important news stories, the BBC's Top 3 stories, on the wrong pages.
Finally I clicked on a 5th category. This would be the one. A sort of catch all category. Picking up the big stories lesser news outlets may have missed.
And there they were the Top 3 Stories I'd been hankering after:
NEWS FROM ELSEWHERE
Cow runs off to live with Polish bison
Finland plans to rebury civil war dead
Maori win first indigenous football internationals
It couldn't get and worse, could it?
As it turns out it does.
They think Venezuela is in Europe.
It would be laughable if it wasn't so tragic. Pythonesque is the word for it.
I decided to give the good old BBC a chance at redemption.
There are BBC reporters scurrying about everywhere in our service. I've seen their many amazing adverts. Reporters braving smoke and fire to bring us the facts via all those red lines from the whole globe pouring unceasingly the BBC News studio. Hot news constantly updated:
Obviously I'd been looking for the important news stories, the BBC's Top 3 stories, on the wrong pages.
Finally I clicked on a 5th category. This would be the one. A sort of catch all category. Picking up the big stories lesser news outlets may have missed.
And there they were the Top 3 Stories I'd been hankering after:
NEWS FROM ELSEWHERE
Cow runs off to live with Polish bison
Finland plans to rebury civil war dead
Maori win first indigenous football internationals
It couldn't get and worse, could it?
As it turns out it does.
They think Venezuela is in Europe.
It would be laughable if it wasn't so tragic. Pythonesque is the word for it.
Is it still not mentioning Milan rail crash? I had a newsflash from Reuters a few minutes after it happened but nothing on BBC. Oh, just checked. It is there now. Much later than Reuters. They have moved the Dorchester Fundraising dinner story off the top now to second place and replaced it with Trump which will now remain all day as breaking news.
ReplyDeleteIt's 90% rubbish on their App. Germany is supplying Turkey with weapons, including nearly 400 Leopard 2 tanks which are now in Syria to go against the Kurds, opening a new front, the same Kurds who helped to smash ISSIS. Not worth a BBC second glance that story. And many more like it. All the time they headline 90% trivia. They hide them away well away away from the headlines and if they mention them.
DeleteTerrible train crash. I was watching RAI News when it happened.