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21 Mar 2004, 17:43 (Ref:914108) | #1 | ||
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Button's Third not Mentioned on "London Tonight"!
Sorry for the regional focus of this post.
Just watched the London Tonight news broadcast. Sports section F1 report mentioned Coulthard's 8th place, Raikkonen's retirement and Schumacher M's win but no mention at all of Button's 3rd place and first podium. I'm flabbergasted! Where's the support for our own drivers and the credit when they do well? |
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I changed the title to make it more clearly an F1 post.
And here I thought that Button was great new British hope! |
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Local news bulletins - what can you say - prob had to cut the item short for a feature on odd shape vegetables found in a back garden somewhere....
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21 Mar 2004, 18:00 (Ref:914124) | #4 | ||
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EERO: Thanks for the title change, makes it much clearer.
ST: The tone of the report and the way it started with Coulthard made it sound like a report on how the British drivers and teams did today except in my eyes they completely missed the point. It's an ITV broadcast too so it's not as if they don't know any different. |
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21 Mar 2004, 18:20 (Ref:914145) | #5 | ||
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well known Londoner David Coulthard isn't he
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21 Mar 2004, 18:22 (Ref:914147) | #6 | ||
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I have always found the thought that drivers who live in Monte Carlo for tax reasons, stand up David Coulthard, to still be British amusing.
Imagine if they had to play the real national anthum(?) dependent upon where the drivers currently lived. I suspect that Monaco would be well represented. |
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Good to see MS genuinely pleased for Jenson,whereas Juan mainly concentrated on looking sorry for himself.A(Am i allowed to say that Mod's?)
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I noticed and commented to all who could be bothering to listen to me
What a joke, DC was mentioned before the race winner, Michael and Jenson wasn't mentioned at all , do these people who write the script actually bother to look at the results or have a clue about what people want to hear? |
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Didn't here it but I have to say that the Turkish commentaters were also on the edge of their seats when Sato stopped. Stammered "Butto" er "is that......?" until the Sato caption came up. All of which indicates that whilst London is ignorant the rest of the world was rooting for the lad.
And Russ. Don't push the anti JPM thing too much. That's my job. (He actually looked good today BTW.) |
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21 Mar 2004, 22:59 (Ref:914406) | #12 | |
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Lookin' at the press in London? Jense's podium wasn't covered much. That is a surprise. What could they be thinking?
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Probably football!
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Are you sure it was London Tonight, and not the ITV evening news?
I can't understand why the regional bulletin would have a Grand Prix report on its news when there was no specific regional angle. |
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Well, maybe the people from each region might be interested in Formula 1? Sometimes i don't understand your posts K-B :confused:
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Yes, it was definitely London Tonight and I was equally flabbergasted. Maybe they lifted the script from Scottish TV! Congratulations to Jensen for a well-deserved podium finish. |
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I don't think it was mentioned on the main news either, they're too busy congratulating foreign drivers, mainly driving for Ferrari! that's of course if they're not mentioning football or cricket!
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It wasnt just the Turkish commentators that thought it was JB up in smoke initially was it, weren't our very own pair the same?
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The silence from the BBC Sports News was a disgrace!
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The way news works on ITV is that ITV news provides a national and international bulletin, and your region provides a regional bulletin before or after it. So, ITV news will have a generic report on the Grand Prix. Scottish TV's regional bulletin would take a Coulthard angle, for example. All I'm saying is there's no point in it being on London Tonight unless there's a strong London angle, otherwise they'd just be repeating what viewers had already just seen on the national news. |
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Not at all. I've always maintained that when he starts using his head a bit he'd live up to expectations. That he did in spades at Sepang.
But Button did even better don't you think. Overtaking on the outside of a corner? Out JPM'd JPM! |
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