Comments on: Close to Home: English Martyrs Bus Crash

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By: JackP

JackP — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 06:49:29 +0000

Ah well, it wasn’t on the news bulletins I saw. If it was featured on the national news, then I take back some of what I said about the media…

By: paul canning

paul canning — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 19:26:02 +0000

I saw it on the ten o’clock news, looked awful and left me wondering what happened (the report didn’t answer that).

sorry to hear this, feel free to rant ;]

By: Stray

Stray — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 16:47:49 +0000

I have to agree with you : this is a horrible, horrible accident. It’s a no win for anyone, and I don’t know if anyone would know how to react. I feel so sorry for all the people involved : the poor bus driver who was only doing the right thing… the kid who ran across the world who was being stupid, but also just being a kid. And the poor kids who got driven into by the bus, the poor parents of those kids. It’s a no win for anyone, and chances are the bus driver will be the one who will take the lashes for it, even though he reacted just as any normal person would.

Nevermind the lashes he will receive, but this incident will plague on his mind for the rest of his life and he probably won’t ever be the same man again. Without offending someone, I have to admit that the only thing that I think will help here is prayer.

By: Seb Crump

Seb Crump — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 12:00:48 +0000

I remember hearing about the same coverage on both of these cases initially. But then I think Radio 4 are probably more aware than most about the London bias tendency.

Admittedly there was more follow up on the Ghana story later, but then I think if that would be the case wherever the girls came from. Once you have government involvement on an international level it has a certain newsworthiness. Obviously, I don’t know if there are other similar cases that haven’t been reported as well – but I don’t think the two stories were as that similar.

I’m sure that there are traffic incidents involving children in London every day, but they only tend to make the local news if that.

The child gang and shootings certainly seems to have a London focus in the national media, but then I remember the shootings a couple of Christmases ago in Manchester too – they seemed to get far more coverage than the recent spate. Perhaps it’s become an old topic.

Sorry, I’m just rambling here I don’t have a real point pro or agin yours. It will be interesting to see whether BBC coverage changes at all when various parts of it are moved up to Manchester.