This is really horrible stuff. Reporters frustrated that the stand-off isn't like in films ("Are you SURE there's no shouting and imploring people not to do things?!"), harassment of a poor women, reduced to tears as her elderley mother is trapped in her house surrounded by snipers, BREAKING NEWS as a van speeds by ("Oh, it was a dog van"). What is it now? 6 hours coverage with 20 minutes worth of actual developments?
24 hour rolling news has it's uses, but flogging an armed horse isn't one of them.