SM
Where is Rageh's normal reporting country?
I remember seeing him in Africa a few years ago (I remember thinking he looked about 14) but he's World Affiars Correspondent , so I guess that means that the world is his oyster but it tends to be the middle-east and Africa that World Affairs people report from.
RTS posted:
James Hatts posted:
Obviosuly he hasn't been reporting continuously from Baghdad for 6 years, but he has done several stints in the city.
Where is Rageh's normal reporting country?
I remember seeing him in Africa a few years ago (I remember thinking he looked about 14) but he's World Affiars Correspondent , so I guess that means that the world is his oyster but it tends to be the middle-east and Africa that World Affairs people report from.
LO
More at www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/biographies/biogs/news/ragehomaar.shtml
Quote:
Rageh Omaar was most recently BBC News' Africa Correspondent, based in Johannesburg.
Previously he was Developing World Correspondent from 1998 and covered stories ranging from drought in Ethiopia to devastating floods in Mozambique.
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He was appointed Amman correspondent in March 1997.
Previously he was Developing World Correspondent from 1998 and covered stories ranging from drought in Ethiopia to devastating floods in Mozambique.
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He was appointed Amman correspondent in March 1997.
More at www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/biographies/biogs/news/ragehomaar.shtml
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A former member
Rageh was awful reading the news - the shirt and tie didn't suit him, and he was forever stumbling over his words.
RE
He looks very young for a newsreader though doesnt he. Dont think he will have problems with going bald.
Jamez posted:
Rageh was awful reading the news - the shirt and tie didn't suit him, and he was forever stumbling over his words.
He looks very young for a newsreader though doesnt he. Dont think he will have problems with going bald.
PE
URRGH, I forgot how horrible that www.bbc.co.uk dog used to be.
I've noticed that there is more and mroe normal news creeeping into the bullitins now. Any idea when they will go back to normal and out of "War Mode"?
Pete
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Isonstine posted:
URRGH, I forgot how horrible that www.bbc.co.uk dog used to be.
I've noticed that there is more and mroe normal news creeeping into the bullitins now. Any idea when they will go back to normal and out of "War Mode"?
MS
Yesterday News 24 used their normal pre-war headline bed, probably by mistake and I only saw it one and then it went back to the current war bed later. Anyway I then half-expected them to play what is affectionately known on here as the 'elephant sting', but it ended with the usual Iraq war titles.
Weather forecasts still seem to be spilling over into the top of the hour, leaving no time for a countdown. That probably won't reappear until events in Iraq start to settle down a bit...weeks away. I haven't seen Peter Coe for a month or so, what's happened to him?
I'd like Sky News to start bringing back some other news. They seem happy to leave all the non-Iraq content on SN Active, which is useless for Freeview and cable viewers, and indeed any digital satellite viewers not using a Sky box.
Hymagumba posted:
I've noticed that there is more and mroe normal news creeeping into the bullitins now. Any idea when they will go back to normal and out of "War Mode"?
Yesterday News 24 used their normal pre-war headline bed, probably by mistake and I only saw it one and then it went back to the current war bed later. Anyway I then half-expected them to play what is affectionately known on here as the 'elephant sting', but it ended with the usual Iraq war titles.
Weather forecasts still seem to be spilling over into the top of the hour, leaving no time for a countdown. That probably won't reappear until events in Iraq start to settle down a bit...weeks away. I haven't seen Peter Coe for a month or so, what's happened to him?
I'd like Sky News to start bringing back some other news. They seem happy to leave all the non-Iraq content on SN Active, which is useless for Freeview and cable viewers, and indeed any digital satellite viewers not using a Sky box.
NG
The BBC Six O'Clock News tonight contained a full sports report, and a number of non-war stories. Also the UK TV News Pool in the Middle East is no longer in full operation. I would imagine that from the weekend, or next week, you will begin to see more normal news bulletins, albeit with a hefty chunk of Middle East news.
noggin
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Lee Stanley posted:
Sky covered Catherine Zeta Jones' court case this morning quite extensively, going live to the court a few times - first time in htree weeks I've seen a non-war story on Sky News.
The BBC Six O'Clock News tonight contained a full sports report, and a number of non-war stories. Also the UK TV News Pool in the Middle East is no longer in full operation. I would imagine that from the weekend, or next week, you will begin to see more normal news bulletins, albeit with a hefty chunk of Middle East news.