Robin's Diary
Robin Luscombe
Managing Director Luscombe Motors Ltd | 2022 Car Dealer Lifetime Achievement | 4 x Suzuki Dealer of the Year | 5 x AM Award Winner | Auto Trader Retailer of the Year 2018 & 2020 | 5 x Motor Trader Award Winner
Create news or report news?
Following last week’s crazy fuel shortages, it makes you wonder what the role of news media is!
It’s not unusual to drive down a UK motorway and see signs saying a service station has run out of fuel, but no hysteria. Yet, news media reporting a few petrol stations running out of fuel caused a mass panic! Everyone wanted fuel, and inevitably chaos was created!
So, my question is, was it in the public interest- a phrase we hear often from the media?
It must be difficult filling 24 hour news channels - it’s hard enough for me writing a short diary every week! But should they create news or report it? If this was an isolated incident, it would be easier to accept, but I’m not sure it is. It did however give them plenty to talk about for the next week, and single-handedly pushed the price of fuel even higher!?
“The whole idea of television news or any kind of news is to inform people about things they need to know about.” Ted Turner
Group Aftersales Manager
3 年Hi Robin, I fully agree. If as a nation we were not told “don’t fill up” would we have? I think not. We like most other households have two vehicles one petrol one diesel. The petrol vehicle is more of a second car in truth, however we have used it more regularly due to the fact we could not find any diesel for a week or so. I visited a number of automotive businesses in London last week, the first fuel station I visited in Weat Sussex had lines of vehicles filling all manner of containers as well as their tanks! Insanity, on a lighter note it would be good to catch up soon.