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BBC World News | 30th October 2017 Onwards
Notice the lack of a poppy at TOTH and it’s appearance at the BOTH, standby for daily mail meltdown 🙄
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Indeed, when noticing the unfortunate choice of clothes I did also think that she seemed quite awkward presenting in BBC News mode. The headline sequence rambled a lot and spoke of what was coming up in the same way it would have if it was the normal Victoria Derbyshire programme - there was no 'this is BBC News, I'm Victoria Derbyshire, the headlines' stuff, it was if she'd never seen the news channel before and was guessing at how it works! Obviously I joke, but it did seem as if she was unsure to ditch the style of her normal programme or not.
Like I said, I don't think she was the right person to send, Ben Brown & Anita McVeigh did an excellent job this afternoon. As has been suggested before, surely Louise Minchin could have stayed on? She is an experienced on location presenter, where Victoria Derbyshire showed her weaknesses this morning.
Manchester Terror Attack
Victoria Derbyshire...much has been said on this forum about her appearance, but nothing about her broadcasting. In my opinion the weakest hours of BBC News today were 9.30-12.00. She was clearly uncomfortable broadcasting live within the BBC News brand, at one point during the headline sequence at 11am she started reading the headlines but diverged so much they dropped the headline bed and titles. Surely the BBC News presenter who would have been scheduled to do the newsroom updates (presumably Joanna Gosling or Anita McVeigh could have made it to Manchester in the same time as Victoria Derbyshire did? She does soft and fluffy 9-11 in her studo, this was anything but soft and fluffy...
Indeed, when noticing the unfortunate choice of clothes I did also think that she seemed quite awkward presenting in BBC News mode. The headline sequence rambled a lot and spoke of what was coming up in the same way it would have if it was the normal Victoria Derbyshire programme - there was no 'this is BBC News, I'm Victoria Derbyshire, the headlines' stuff, it was if she'd never seen the news channel before and was guessing at how it works! Obviously I joke, but it did seem as if she was unsure to ditch the style of her normal programme or not.
Like I said, I don't think she was the right person to send, Ben Brown & Anita McVeigh did an excellent job this afternoon. As has been suggested before, surely Louise Minchin could have stayed on? She is an experienced on location presenter, where Victoria Derbyshire showed her weaknesses this morning.
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Piers Morgan...no one knew anything about the perpetrators of this hideous crime yet on ITV breakfast he is allowed to get away with speculating that this attack is linked to Donald Trump visiting Saudi Arabia, no facts just pure unfiltered speculation! Surely less than 12 hours into a serious situation like this we should expect our public service broadcasters not to be broadcasting basix racism, actually, we should expect this at all times.
Victoria Derbyshire...much has been said on this forum about her appearance, but nothing about her broadcasting. In my opinion the weakest hours of BBC News today were 9.30-12.00. She was clearly uncomfortable broadcasting live within the BBC News brand, at one point during the headline sequence at 11am she started reading the headlines but diverged so much they dropped the headline bed and titles. Surely the BBC News presenter who would have been scheduled to do the newsroom updates (presumably Joanna Gosling or Anita McVeigh could have made it to Manchester in the same time as Victoria Derbyshire did? She does soft and fluffy 9-11 in her studo, this was anything but soft and fluffy...
Manchester Terror Attack
I woke up at 4.30am this morning, looked at my phone and quickly turned on the tv. Since then I feel I have seen the good, the bad and the ugly of TV news...Piers Morgan...no one knew anything about the perpetrators of this hideous crime yet on ITV breakfast he is allowed to get away with speculating that this attack is linked to Donald Trump visiting Saudi Arabia, no facts just pure unfiltered speculation! Surely less than 12 hours into a serious situation like this we should expect our public service broadcasters not to be broadcasting basix racism, actually, we should expect this at all times.
Victoria Derbyshire...much has been said on this forum about her appearance, but nothing about her broadcasting. In my opinion the weakest hours of BBC News today were 9.30-12.00. She was clearly uncomfortable broadcasting live within the BBC News brand, at one point during the headline sequence at 11am she started reading the headlines but diverged so much they dropped the headline bed and titles. Surely the BBC News presenter who would have been scheduled to do the newsroom updates (presumably Joanna Gosling or Anita McVeigh could have made it to Manchester in the same time as Victoria Derbyshire did? She does soft and fluffy 9-11 in her studo, this was anything but soft and fluffy...
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BBC News Channel General Discussion
Apologies if I've missed it but is World News Today normally shown on the NC at 9pm on a Sunday?
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BBC North West Tonight
Has Dianne left NWT? We seem to have been stuck with Eno forever!
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BBC Scotland News Thread
BBC Scotland are currently showing Salmond's speech from the start so running on a 10-15 minute delay whilst the BBC News Channel shows it live - subconscious message from the BBC? Stay with us and you'll get it LIVE lol
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BBC News: Presenters & Rotas
It's the Sopel and Maitlis show again this afternoon! We're already having tennis and pizza banter, who knows what else to expect........
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BBC News: Presenters & Rotas
Tim Willcox has just tweeted that he's in Turkey so Simon's possibly covering Tim's shift last minute?
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No, I think that's the point. The BBC would never and will never ask its journalists to put themselves in harms-way for the sake of a story. Frankly I suspect the likes of Matthew Price, Rupert Wingfield-Hayes and Alex Crawford see the public's take on this, at this moment in time, as a useless anomaly. They are there to report on a story and they will do so in the best, safest way they can. And ultimately that's all anyone, broadcaster or members of the public, can ask of them.
I agree that it is more important to get the news out rather than mae it look pretty for the 6 or 10 and I also agree that they are also taking a risk by being in Tripoli at such a dangerous time. I'm simpyl wondering whether the ongoing conversation/debate over the BBC's lack of lives and Sky's courageous coverage will influence either the journalists or other staff at the BBC. Will they feel like they have to take extra risks to get one over on Sky?
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I'm not asking them to take more risks, just manage their time better. Cover the story, let London put the package together!
No, I think that's the point. The BBC would never and will never ask its journalists to put themselves in harms-way for the sake of a story. Frankly I suspect the likes of Matthew Price, Rupert Wingfield-Hayes and Alex Crawford see the public's take on this, at this moment in time, as a useless anomaly. They are there to report on a story and they will do so in the best, safest way they can. And ultimately that's all anyone, broadcaster or members of the public, can ask of them.
I agree that it is more important to get the news out rather than mae it look pretty for the 6 or 10 and I also agree that they are also taking a risk by being in Tripoli at such a dangerous time. I'm simpyl wondering whether the ongoing conversation/debate over the BBC's lack of lives and Sky's courageous coverage will influence either the journalists or other staff at the BBC. Will they feel like they have to take extra risks to get one over on Sky?
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Which one had the bee in the bonnet?
BBC News Channel: Presentation
Kate Adie being interviewed on the BBC News channel by Joanna Gosling, being pretty rude and abrupt to her Joanna to be honest. What's she got a bee in her bonnet about?
Which one had the bee in the bonnet?
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