Stories on BBC News

Last night, I watched the BBC News at 10pm on BBC1. I saw a link between two of the stories mid-way through the programme.

First up, the story of Archbishop Vincent ‘critising Facebook’. According to the report, he didn’t really, he just commented that the internet and social networking  can lead to isolation and unhealthy relationships, especially when used to extremes.

The next news story was the mother of a girl who has apparently run away with someone she met on the internet appealing for her to get in touch. 

Both were brief – they weren’t really the major news stories of the day, but important and meriting a moment in a new bullitin.

It was the order of the stories that struck me. It seemed like the order was offering evidence to back up the Archbishop’s comments on the possible negative imact of the internet. I can’t imagine that this was intentional, especially as the tone on piece about the Archbishop seemed unconvicened.

It stuck me as being quite amusing that the programme producer (or whoever it is who makes these decisions) thought the order of stories was suitable.