I took our car to the dealer for its annual service and MOT. Before I left the BBC started to show live pictures of a burning aeroplane on a Tokyo runway, at which point it was unclear if there were casualties.
Thirty minutes later I settled on a vinyl sofa in the dealership. The TV continued to show the live stream plus occasional highlight loops from Tokyo. The BBC found several people to speculate on this matter from their UK lounges. These people did seem to know something about flight, accidents and aircraft construction but knew no more than the viewer about the current incident. The BBC did find a person in the arrivals hall at the airport who at least provided on the spot context.
From memory this went on for at least two hours with almost no interruption. There was no discussion re Gaza, the government's announcement re asylum, the storms in the UK, the severe earthquake in Japan or even the sacking of Wayne Rooney. There was some footage of people leaving the aeroplane and distant pictures of the landing and collision with a smaller plane, but the only new information was the apparent death of 5 people in the smaller plane.
I guess that viewing figures re small at that time which may be used to justify what seemed to be lazy editorial decisions. My view was that to fill over 2 hours with pictures of an empty burning plane and rambling uninformed speculation was disappointing and unimpressive.