[Margaret Pilkington]

yes, A-B you are absolutely right.......this terror group got 24 hours of free and unlimited publicity/propaganda...............I am sure that we could have had half hourly bulletins in text running across the bottom of the screen.......or certainly something much more discrete.
As you say the race for ratings is what motivates........I feel that the coverage on all stations was equally bad.... though I think we expect a bit more from the Beeb.