The access the media has been given in the Pistorius Case has meant the BBC was able to stuff their news bulletins with unlimited video footage of the trial . It’s been the lead story for week now, despite there being no shortage of domestic stories. Also the excessive time allowed for reports from South Africa has meant that news from around the world has also has been squeezed out. Maybe it’s the perfect story for the BBC considering their appetite for any type of celebrity ‘news’.
For example
here’s a recent story that didn't even merit a mention by BBC :
In the
months after the 2010 earthquake, the United Nations deployed troops to Haiti
who are believed to have brought with them the cholera bacterium from overseas.
The U.N. has publicly stated that substandard sanitation at one of its barracks
may have led to the outbreak that resulted in the deaths of 8000 people. Another half a million people
were made ill by the polluted water.
United
Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says that the United Nations will not
compensate families affected by the 2010 cholera outbreak that has claimed
thousands of lives, despite evidence that the organization was responsible for
the outbreak.
“Our case is about the U.N. dumping contaminated sewage in Haiti’s waters
that has caused thousands of deaths. On
Friday, Ban Ki-moon phoned Haitian president Michel
Martelly to inform him that the United Nations has no intention, or
legal obligation, to pay compensation to the families of Haiti's cholera
victims. 
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