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ASIA Disaster - Coverage & Discussion

150,000 Confirmed Dead (December 2004)

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LO
Londoner
william posted:
I was ever impressed by the astons as well.

Some of the text clashed with the tower on News 24 though...
LO
Londoner
Mark Austin is now in the region for tomorrow's ITV News special at 6pm

Has there been any more location presenting on the ITV News Channel today?
MO
Moz
James_h292 posted:
On N24 titles at the top of the hour the globe rotated so that asia and the affected area was shown. it was a clever touch but looked rubbish.


The globe always starts it's spin from where the headline story is happening on the N24 titles. Has done since relaunch last year. There are several choices, Europe, Africa, Middle East, SE Asia, USA, South America, that sort of thing.

Good to see you're so observant! Rolling Eyes
NS
NickyS Founding member
This is sad - from the Met Police ... one of the problems with email addresses being on public display I suppose ...

The Metropolitan Police Service is investigating a number of hoax e-mails which have been sent to friends and relatives of people involved in the S E Asian earthquake. The e-mails have been sent to a number of people who placed appeals for loved ones on the Sky News website. The messages, which purport to come from the "Foreign Office Bureau" in Thailand state that the missing person has been confirmed dead.
WI
william Founding member
Probably old news, but I note that Channel 4 have just run the *BBC* version of the DEC appeal (complete with a ceefax page number).
CO
cortomaltese
Moz posted:
James_h292 posted:
On N24 titles at the top of the hour the globe rotated so that asia and the affected area was shown. it was a clever touch but looked rubbish.


The globe always starts it's spin from where the headline story is happening on the N24 titles. Has done since relaunch last year. There are several choices, Europe, Africa, Middle East, SE Asia, USA, South America, that sort of thing.

Good to see you're so observant! Rolling Eyes


I saw it starting from the Noth Pole a couple of time! Which is quite weird...
AN
Ant
NickyS posted:
This is sad - from the Met Police ... one of the problems with email addresses being on public display I suppose ...

The Metropolitan Police Service is investigating a number of hoax e-mails which have been sent to friends and relatives of people involved in the S E Asian earthquake. The e-mails have been sent to a number of people who placed appeals for loved ones on the Sky News website. The messages, which purport to come from the "Foreign Office Bureau" in Thailand state that the missing person has been confirmed dead.

What idiots Rolling Eyes . Do these people have nothing better to do?
MA
Marcus Founding member
cortomaltese posted:
Moz posted:
James_h292 posted:
On N24 titles at the top of the hour the globe rotated so that asia and the affected area was shown. it was a clever touch but looked rubbish.


The globe always starts it's spin from where the headline story is happening on the N24 titles. Has done since relaunch last year. There are several choices, Europe, Africa, Middle East, SE Asia, USA, South America, that sort of thing.

Good to see you're so observant! Rolling Eyes


I saw it starting from the Noth Pole a couple of time! Which is quite weird...


Yea, that was on the story about Santa being taken into custody for abusing his elves
IM
its me
BBC News Special, 9.30am tommorrow.

More detailshere.
CO
cortomaltese
Marcus posted:
cortomaltese posted:
Moz posted:
James_h292 posted:
On N24 titles at the top of the hour the globe rotated so that asia and the affected area was shown. it was a clever touch but looked rubbish.


The globe always starts it's spin from where the headline story is happening on the N24 titles. Has done since relaunch last year. There are several choices, Europe, Africa, Middle East, SE Asia, USA, South America, that sort of thing.

Good to see you're so observant! Rolling Eyes


I saw it starting from the Noth Pole a couple of time! Which is quite weird...


Yea, that was on the story about Santa being taken into custody for abusing his elves


Yeah, something like that. Anita McNaught was presenting.
LO
Londoner
This piece in today's Observer about TV news coverage of the tsunami is worth a read.

Ironic that Five's Chris Shaw is commenting on the coverage, when his on channel has notably failed to offer a news service to speak of this past week.
NS
NickyS Founding member
thegeek posted:
Julie Etchingham in Phuket just passed over to Martin Stanford in Sri Lanka, who then interviewed two survivors who were in Millbank.

Sky's coverage is, dare I say it, very slick. I wonder if they'll be getting Bruce to record some "in Indonesia" and "in Thailand" tags for the top of the hour?

And the answer is yes they did get Bruce in ...

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