I’m not suggesting it shouldn’t be on the news, I mean how long before a news article becomes less important.
Covid seems to have disappeared for now on the news.
Don’t hear about Afghanistan in the main news and haven’t for a good few months.
Conservative’s drinks soirée has been swept under the carpet for now.
Etc etc
If the war stagnates for a period I imagine compassion fatigue will kick in quite soon. There is a limit to how long desperate refugees can be headline news. If something escalates or Kyiv is captured etc, I assume it will stay top billing. Sorry to sound cynical.
Depends, are the Tories doing stuff that needs the public to be distracted?
are the Tories doing stuff that needs the public to be distracted
Yes. Dunno specifically what it is, but the answer is inevitably Yes.
When fuel starts tapping on £2 a litre you'll start to see people's compassion falter.
How long before it's offered that Ukraine should just surrender because the middle-classes are sick of paying a high price for fuel, and how awfully unfair it is for them, etc?
When it loses its novelty, or when talking about it becomes inconvenient (even if the thing itself is still a massive problem).
See: Brexit, Coronavirus
I reckon Coronavirus will be kicked out of the BBC news top navigation bar by summer.
When the nukes fall
Bloody hell. How long to the invasion of a sovereign state by one of the world’s nuclear superpowers isn’t on the news?
A bloody long time I’d hope. It’s one of the worst acts in international geopolitics in living memory and has the potential to start WW3.
Why, is it interrupting your Strictly Come Celebrity news?
I guess you woke up and chose violence?
Why, is it interrupting your Strictly Come Celebrity news?
If it goes to stalemate then about a month after that when something hits the headline would do the trick I reckon. With occasional appearances for any atrocities.
Whenever something more dramatic comes along. In Australia the ABC (equivalent of the BBC) header bar had COVID most prominent until Ukraine became the key focus. Ukraine has already slid to the right to allow for Queensland floods, which moved on for the New South Wales floods.
At the rate we're going i'm anticipating famine, pestilence and a tsunami by the end of the year 🙁
Why, getting bored already? How long were the Falkland Islands, The Gulf and Afghanistan in the news for? Extrapolate from there.
I could suggest turning the telly and the radio off, and ignoring all online media, but that might be seen as being a bit harsh.
@countzero - OP's first words were "I'm not suggesting it shouldn't be on the news ..."
My brother sat in the Old Bailey all of Tuesday and delivered pieces to camera for the 6 and 10 pm new on the hearing around abortion rights for disabled babies. Important story. However it all got bumped as something new happened in Ukraine. And that’s the crux of it - every day Putin does something new like bomb a hospital, attack a nuclear power station, shoot at refugees - that will take up a big news slot. It will need to all become a bit more ‘mundane’ (so to speak) for the coverage to reduce.
Also it takes a huge amount of the news staff up keep fact checking, keeping up with international response etc. It does limit staffing in other areas. (My brother is freelance so was picking up extra work this week, whereas normally he is news reading or presenting on the World Service).
I think WW2 was top slot for a good few years
Why, is it interrupting your Strictly Come Celebrity news?
I don't think the OP was whining, just observing the News's tendancy to skip onto the next thing and drop the last disaster quite quickly.
I get the feeling that Boris is feeling a bit safer than he really should. Accepting that Ukraine really should take precedence, perhaps people do have the attention span to think about more than one major news item at a time? But it doesn't feel like broadcast/online news operates that way...
News’s tendancy to skip onto the next thing and drop the last disaster quite quickly.
Thats kind of the point - it is NEWs
It is pretty crazy how COVID has gone from complete saturation to having almost disappeared completely from news websites etc.
I reckon Coronavirus will be kicked out of the BBC news top navigation bar by summer.
What's coronavirus?
Depends on how long it remains shocking. I sense the public already becoming desensitised to Putin bombing hospitals and queues of evacuees.
How long before it’s offered that Ukraine should just surrender because the middle-classes are sick of paying a high price for fuel, and how awfully unfair it is for them, etc?
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I can just imagine someone complaining that there's too much about Mr Hitler on the radio, and when will the Arthur Askey show will be back....
when its replaced by the emergency broadcast giving us duck and cover instructions.
Depends how it goes I guess. There aren't many parallels for this. President Zelensky is doing a fantastic job of keeping it in the media spotlight, which puts pressure on other world leaders not to just let Russia win and hope it drive energy prices down and of course they're doing a far better job of fighting the war of hearts and minds.
As for competition for air time, people seem to have had their fill of Covid now, Partygate has blown over etc.
We are losing Neighbours soon. That will take top spot for a few days surely?
Interesting looking at the news sites from home (NZ) - Ukraine situation basically sees one update under world news on the sites I read, and a sidebar about abrahamovich. Sydney Herald similar, thought a bit more analysis. Reflects distance, insularity, impact and interest I guess.
Think we might have seen the start of Ukraine news fatigue today. The positive news of the release of the hostage in Iran has been top story.
To answer the OP question - it's already started.
The iranian hostages release would have probably had top billing anyway.
The next few days will give an clearer picture.
