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To: Ish who wrote (100167)	6/4/2003 10:20:24 AM
From: thames_sider	Respond to of 281500

thanks - found one mention... various other references but all head back to this text, with no follow-up. ananova.com The Ananova report has no source or indicaton of where/by whom it was filed, which is odd. Still, assuming it is verifiable I think this is the main reason: The Navy says it has switched off News 24 aboard HMS Ark Royal after complaints by the crew. It is one of a handful of task force ships which receives live TV direct from Britain. Rolling news plus two entertainment channels are beamed into the warship. A BBC correspondent has been on board but the crew say they have no gripe with his reports. However they were annoyed by the comments of presenters and commentators reporting on the carrier's Sea King tragedy a fortnight ago. The BBC suggested poor levels of maintenance played a hand in the deaths of seven fliers. Now I can see this causing ructions... It's not the first time a Sea King crash has been put down to maintenance issues, tho'. Looks quite a specific thing - no other ships involved or mentioned, so I'd imagine it was this rather than the "navy being annoyed by bias" that really did it. There's an anonymous grouse from "One senior rating "... if that's all they could get, wow. Still, I'm interested to read that and think it could be why the BBC is running a check. Incidentally, Sky News is owned by News Corp, from the Fox stable, and often had similar coverage slant to its US sibling. This might well make it more palatable to serving troops, who aren't going to appreciate hearing a lot of reports criticising them... regardless of the source/accuracy of those reports...