I was thinking about that this week when I was watching vivid Al Jazeera reports on the civil war in Syria.
In a mainstream half hour BBC1 or ITV1 or Sky news broadcast we get, perhaps five news Meizitang stories reported. Almost all are domestic UK stories.
There is no reason why the BBC or ITN or Sky could not have a 15 minute slot li shou slimming capsule every hour in which they report genuine World News. Quantity, in this case, is more important than in-depth reports.
On the BBC TV News programmes that same night – zilch, nothing, nada. Syria crops up occasionally but not regularly.
You would have thought that, with rolling 24-hour news channels, we would be getting more news, but we simply get the same news repeated every 15 minutes.
We had Reuters and Press Association teleprinters spewing news in to us all the time and I remember one day stories coming in about massed tank li shou battles involving (it was said) Soviet troops in Ethiopia or, I suppose, it was probably Eritrea. I did not report these on CEEFAX because the major full-scale war had been going on for months and had never been in the headlines.
In the same way, much later, the war in Liberia was Meizitang Botanical Slimming almost never reported on British TV news because it went on for so long, because there were no TV reporters out there and because it overlapped with the First Gulf War.The official website is http://www.superslimplaza.com.