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I didn't see the BBC one on the front page at all, and it's currently well below the fold of the Science & Health section, despite being two days more recent th
by gravescale 2y ago
I didn't see the BBC one on the front page at all, and it's currently well below the fold of the Science & Health section, despite being two days more recent than "plant with biggest genome found" (most of the rest is health science and generic "health content" like TV shows). There's even an article about SAR radar satellites above it, so it's not even the top space story today.
It's certainly false to say that it's not in the mainstream media, but I think it's also fair to say it's not exactly top of the bill.
For comparison, Chandrayaan-3 was below only Prigozhin's death last August (https://web.archive.org/web/20230823204015/https://www.bbc.com/news https://web.archive.org/web/20230823204015/https://www.bbc.c...) and the Chandrayaan programme has its own subcategory. To be fair that was the first Indian landing of any kind, so yes, a bit different.
Not sure Chandrayaan-3 made CCTV top bill either, though! (It was reported, under the Chinese translated name 月船3号, just I don't know how high up it was on the day).
- seanmcdirmid 2y agoIt really depends how it compare to Trump’s conviction. The news is politically dominated these days by that and Gaza. CCTV 7PM news cast will always spend half the news cast detailing what Xi did that day, so it crowds out all the room for science topics. It’s a side story in China daily, and a top story on global times, which is about what I would expect.
- prawn 2y agoI was surprised to not see it on the Guardian's front page. It's prominent on the World News sub-page though.