weird news coverage of london tonight

[Dmoney]

I'm listening to LBC and watching BBC News.
Sounds like stuff has been getting wild all over london tonight, and it isn't on BBC News. LBC however is keeping it real. wonder how this will be covered in the morning.

[MrBump]

It's weird - there was a definite sense that coverage was suppressed.

[tomjackson]

Might be to stop is spreading.  Images of shops with open doors and people running out with TV's might just encourage more people to go on the rampage.  I mean looting is awful but If I saw images of Denmark Street being looted I'd probably turn into a wild eyed animal....

Either that or after getting camera crews attacked they decided to give it a wide berth.

Or now the BBC are moving to Salford they don't care about London!

[Dmoney]

If Denmark St was getting looted I'd be down there like a shot! haha.

I was thinking the same about it perhaps not being on there in order to not encourage more people to go out. I haven't seen much on the news about it this morning. Last night I was seeing messages on facebook from friends just listing places, and it got really confusing til I tuned into LBC. Enfield, Walthamstow, Palmers Green, Angel, Brixton, West End, Chingford, Dalston...

All I could think about after listening to some people on the radio talk, was Stanford Prison Experiment. The blackout of info on the BBC new channel was really odd. LBC had details and eyewitnesses calling in every few minutes.

[Philly Q]

Enfield, Walthamstow, Palmers Green, Angel, Brixton, West End, Chingford, Dalston...

Brixton was all closed off to pedestrians this morning, lots of smashed windows and shattered bus stops.  Cretins.

And full-on news coverage now!

Still, maybe it'll put a few people off coming to London for the Olympics next year....

[Dmoney]

I don't think the coverage is that full compared to the LBC broadcast last night.
I have friends who saw looting in places that haven't been mentioned in the BBC News yet, for example.

It seems really hard to grasp the true scale of what happened last night. LBC & the people calling in at the time made it feel more widespread than the BBC pictures this morning.

I thought the Olympics was VIP only? :lol:

[Elliot]

It really does feel like a return to the 1980s - I am now waiting for Conflict to do a tour, free festivals in some field in Cornwall and hair metal to make a come back.....and Teresa May to start talking about bringing back capital punishment.

[Philly Q]

It really does feel like a return to the 1980s - I am now waiting for Conflict to do a tour, free festivals in some field in Cornwall and hair metal to make a come back.....and Teresa May to start talking about bringing back capital punishment.

Not all bad then...

[Dmoney]

maybe thats the reason for people looting sports stores. theft of spandex.

[gwEm]

the hackney riots are actually not so far away from me. i was walking through hoxton square about a couple of hours ago and there was a couple of kids mucking about, kicking over bins and pretending to be rioting. made me think - if there was enough of them (like there were just up the road) it would have been an actual riot.

i'm not worried about it, but it is concerning.

[HTH AMPS]

so do we think any news channel will be tasteless enough to use the Kaiser Chiefs song playing over a montage of the rioting?

[Afghan Dave]

I'm getting sick of the way this scum are getting away with it.

Now some Turkish shop keepers are taking matters into their own hands with baseball bats and well done to them!

[tomjackson]

Send the Army in!

[Stevepage]

Just read there's been fires started in Croydon. Lets hope Mr Feline Guitars is alright

[Johnny Mac]

#londonriots on twitter is going ballistic trending forth in the world. The info coming in is things are happening in about a dozen areas in London