[LDN]

God, that's very much a TL-DR post LDN but as I was saying yesterday when someone was complaining about the opposite often reporting the initial breaking news then leaving it for other stories to return to it later is a better use of airtime than just filling and filling and filling asking inane questions which can't really be answered in a way that gives the viewers meaningful information.

Yeah... I fear that quite a lot of similar points have been bottled up for a while about certain (but certainly not all) recent aspects of BBC News live coverage, and today, with the notion that today's coverage was somehow exemplary, they just exploded out like a Newswatch piñata of outrage.

Perhaps I should get a stress relief ball.

But you're exactly right -- and surely, this is precisely why the pushback was introduced: so that a developing story could be shown in the background, to be returned to from time to time, while other news gets the coverage it deserves.

BBC News (24)/World (News) has always had a strange attitude towards breaking news, whereby if a major story breaks, all the other news in the world simply ceases to exist. (Amazingly, the ticker was actually showing a few other stories today in addition to the breaking news! Progress!)

But surely, if there's nothing useful to say about the burning plane, push it back, show the visuals in a window, and cover other stories. Don't fill a solid hour with endless empty padding when the people you've got on air have no new information to share, they don't know the right questions to ask, and they can't yet provide the right answers anyway. That's a wasted hour that serves nobody well.

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@LDN - not saying your points are not valid, but I would kindly ask you to reconsider the way you are wording these posts - you are being a bit OTT with your language in my opinion.

Point humbly taken.

No offence was intended, but my apologies if any was caused.