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As an international viewer of BBC World News, I’ve had the privilege of NOT having any time to watch this week, I have never heard of Gary, I have not heard any of this reported elsewhere on any international news and I will admit I know nothing about it. If I hadn’t had a busy week and I’d been watching I think I’d be absolutely ropeable at the amount of international air time it’s getting from the bbc.

I thought that but it is actually quite a major international story it seems. It features on all the major news sites worldwide.

It might do, but there are lots of stories that will feature on all major news sites, it's the job of an editor to give an appropriate level of airtime to each story based on a combination of its newsworthiness and relevance to viewers. Later this year, Luxembourg will hold a general election - I suspect most reputable news outlets will have an article on the results - but I would be very surprised it it even gets a mention on a network news bulletin because any sensible editor would recognise it's not what the viewer really needs to know or particularly wants to know (it'd also be surprising because BBC network news gave up on properly covering elections in most western democracies about 20 years ago, but that's a different matter).

Even if there is some international interest in the Lineker case, I just don't see how it could possibly be editorially justified to give half of a 30-minute World News bulletin and all of a 10-minute World News bulletin to this story. That's just not in any respect proportionate to the story or its relevance and is a shocking error of editorial judgement. Even absolute top-tier stories rarely get a whole bulletin to themselves, and I don't think anybody would count this as one of those.