Why on earth do the BBC think this is news????

[Kermit power]

Fan dies after Dundee Utd versus Aberdeen match

So, you see the above headline. What's your first thought? I would imagine for most that it's hooliganism. A football fan stabbed to death by opposing oiks or something similar?

OK, that would be newsworthy.

Read the story, however, and some poor chap collapsed after the game, was treated by paramedics and taken to hospital but pronounced dead on arrival. The police have said they're not treating the death as suspicious.

Sad for the man's family, of course, but given that something like 350 people die of heart attacks alone every single day of the year in this country, why on earth have the BBC decided that this warrants a news story?

[glazbagun]

I'm going to disagree. It's not the World headline on their front page, but rather is buried in the Scotland section. A man dying publicly is still newsworthy in a local-paper kind of way- the same as car crashes always seem to get a passing mention.

What I really disagree with is when we have 24 Hr news stations giving ius 24 hrs of the same three stories when there's a whole world (and country) of pain, suffering and good news- anyone remember the whole Maddie McCann thing!? Or even the recent snow; days and days of the same story for 24 Hours! Show us some fking news you bds!!

Edited by glazbagun on Sunday 3rd January 16:40

[N Dentressangle]

Maybe they felt that people who witnessed the event would have wanted to know what was going on?

News services report road accidents, and many of these happen every day too. You could email the BBC and ask them?

[Racingdude009]

Slow news day Editors need something to put out.

[FourWheelDrift]

Anything to fill up the news quota so they don't have time or space to print anything about the gormless unelected leader we have and his cabinet of unelected idiot's latest fk up.

[Martial Arts Man]

The Sunday times today and last week are barely as thick as the usual daily edition.

Tells ya all ya need to know!

[J500ANT]

Racingdude009 said:

Slow news day Editors need something to put out.

Yesterday the ticker thing on the front page telling me some American chat show host i'd never heard of had gone to hospital with chest pains.

[ninja-lewis]

N Dentressangle said:

Maybe they felt that people who witnessed the event would have wanted to know what was going on?

News services report road accidents, and many of these happen every day too. You could email the BBC and ask them?

The man with paramedics was mentioned on various Aberdeen and United forums by folk who were at the game. As usual, (folk collapsing and taking unwell isn't all that uncommon unfortunately) folk were mainly hoping to find out who he was and whether he was okay. Sadly, the man's family announced (the man was known to some of the members on an Aberdeen forum) late last night that he had passed away.

It's not even a Scotland headline but tucked away in the North East/N Isles section, which basically covers the main headlines of the local paper.

[Kermit power]

glazbagun said:

I'm going to disagree. It's not the World headline on their front page, but rather is buried in the Scotland section. A man dying publicly is still newsworthy in a local-paper kind of way- the same as car crashes always seem to get a passing mention.

Sorry, been out for most of the day, and only just got back to this.

My point initially was that this story was a headline on the front page of the BBC News website. Much as I agree that it might make sense buried away in a local news section on Scotland, I would never have seen it had it only been buried away. It was the fact that it was a front page headline which was particularly strange.