TV News Summer Project (part 5)

This is part 5 of my TV News Summer Project

Wednesday 23rd July - BBC Breakfast, 8:00 - 8:20

The main stories for this day and the order they were broadcast on were:

1. Final preparations are underway for the opening of the Glasgow Commonwealth Games.

2. The first bodies from the Malaysian air crash are being taken to the Netherlands for identification.

3. Since the plane crash, hardly any arms deals between the UK and Russia have been cancelled.

4. In the conflict between Palestine and Israel, the death toll is continuing to rise. 600 Palestinians and 30 Israelis dead.

5. A group of MPs are calling for changes to the disabilities benefits system.

6. Costa Concordia is still being removed from the sea where it sank in January 2013.

I think that it's interesting that the stories about the disasters in the world have been broadcast after the story on the Commonwealth Games and I think this is because the BBC are trying to get a head start in raising viewing figures for the opening of the Commonwealth Games so by telling the public about the opening a day before it starts reminds the public to watch it. Stories 2, 3 and 4 are broadcast next because they are global disasters that have happened in the last few days and some people in the UK will have friends and relatives that may be involved so they would want to know of any updates and the rising death toll in the case of story 4. I think story 5 is next because it only applies to citizens in the UK and there is also a very large amount of people in the UK who are on benefits and so they would be very, very interested in this story and the changes in the benefits system. I think story 6 is last because the issue happened over a year ago but some people may have been wondering what had happened to the ship since it sank and so the BBC thought it would be good to update us on what was going on.