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BBC World Service Plans For Mandela Coverage

J

Joseph_Gallant

At his writing (3:45 P.M. EDT July 2nd), former South African President Nelson Mandela ia gravely ill in as Pretoria hospital.

I have found a link below to a BBC directive, quoted on APMStations.com (serving public radio stations that take programs from American Public Media, including APM-distributed BBC World Service fare), explaining what would occur on BBC's World Service should Mandela pass away:

http://news.apmstations.org/2013/06/24/nelson-mandela-critical-bbc-coverage-plan-reminder/ .

This provides some insight as to how a major news organization gears up for a major news story that is likely to occur soon, but that the time of which cannot be determined ahead of mtime.
 
Should Nelson Mandela pass away in the next few days (hopefully, he won't and in fact stage a miraculous recovery), I would think the cable news channels here in the 'States will likewise announce it once news is made public and then broadcast several hours of "rolling" or non-stop news coverage..............unless the George Zimmerman trial is in session; in which case, the news may only appear as a crawl and anything further would have to wait until a recess, the lunch break, or the end of the day's testimony.
 
Well, the Zimmerman trial is over, but the Bulger trial is still going.

Seriously, why would the BBC want to use American material, why don't they go to the source and get it from one of the networks in SA?
 
kc1ih said:
Well, the Zimmerman trial is over, but the Bulger trial is still going.
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With no racial overtones, how is the Bulger trial playing nationally? Outside of the Northeast, is there the same sort of interest in a New England mobster and his associates/enemies, all of them white, as there was in Trayvon Martin and George Zimmerman?
 
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