An extremely wasteful morning on Breakfast (and seemingly across the other TV networks as well).
Pointless lives this morning from: Colette Macbeth, live at Ipswich Mag - WHY!?!; Ben Ando, live at Heathrow (telling us what we know already); Satnav someone, live at the RAC's HQ in Walsall - again, why?! - although it did remind me of ITV NC's good old travel updates; Roderick Stuart, from our very own Look North, live at our very chilly Central Station. A pointless one if ever I saw one, surely one correspondant could have handled all three sources from live within the studio?
To cap it all off, there was an excellent question from some reporter on GMTV this morning, asking a random family at Heathrow whether 2 days of waiting for a cancelled flight would ruin their Christmas. Well, DUH!?
An extremely wasteful morning on Breakfast (and seemingly across the other TV networks as well).
Pointless lives this morning from: Colette Macbeth, live at Ipswich Mag - WHY!?!; Ben Ando, live at Heathrow (telling us what we know already); Satnav someone, live at the RAC's HQ in Walsall - again, why?! - although it did remind me of ITV NC's good old travel updates; Roderick Stuart, from our very own Look North, live at our very chilly Central Station. A pointless one if ever I saw one, surely one correspondant could have handled all three sources from live within the studio?
To cap it all off, there was an excellent question from some reporter on GMTV this morning, asking a random family at Heathrow whether 2 days of waiting for a cancelled flight would ruin their Christmas. Well, DUH!?
Well, by that logic, even having a correspondent coming into the studio would be frivolous nonsense when the presenter could put forward the same information by reading it off a piece of paper.
Technically everything could be handled from the studio on almost any story. With camera feeds from a location and commentary and updates coming from a studio-based presenter, there would almost never be any need for on-scene correspondents. Useless vox-pops would be cast aside, updates from the scene which are seemingly irrelevant could be ditched, and a single presenter could narrate everything from the studio.
But this would make for a pretty dull approach to news broadcasting. There may not be any real need to have a live two-way between College Green and the studio to report that Lembit Opek may or may not looked into his girlfriend's deportation case, when the same information could be imparted by one person simply reading it from a screen in the studio, but it provides variety to proceedings. Different scenery provides more visual interest, and by adding another person with whom to interact, information can be presented in a more varied way than having one voice reading ALL of the information for every story.
It may not be perfect, and not suited to all tastes - and I for one hate those tedious vox pops where the Great Unwashed are asked for their opinions on a situation that they clearly know nothing about - but I personally prefer having the variety of multiple correspondents on location than to rely so heavily on studio-based presentation.
An extremely wasteful morning on Breakfast (and seemingly across the other TV networks as well).
Pointless lives this morning
Thing is though, that they block lease transponders on the satellites, so that won't have cost anything, and they would have had to have some SNG crews on duty so that they were available to cover any breaking news if there had been any.
An extremely wasteful morning on Breakfast (and seemingly across the other TV networks as well).
Pointless lives this morning from: Colette Macbeth, live at Ipswich Mag - WHY!?!; Ben Ando, live at Heathrow (telling us what we know already); Satnav someone, live at the RAC's HQ in Walsall - again, why?! - although it did remind me of ITV NC's good old travel updates; Roderick Stuart, from our very own Look North, live at our very chilly Central Station. A pointless one if ever I saw one, surely one correspondant could have handled all three sources from live within the studio?
To cap it all off, there was an excellent question from some reporter on GMTV this morning, asking a random family at Heathrow whether 2 days of waiting for a cancelled flight would ruin their Christmas. Well, DUH!?
If they were using regional reporters, was it Midlands Today's Satnam Rana at the RAC ?
Kate Silverton has been getting stick for her choice of blouse again this morning. I think it's pretty innocuous, but one might say it puts the Rough into Ruffles:
Nonsense. It's nice to see someone with some style and not looking like the frumpy tarts most people on BBC News seem to be. Give her a break - she's young and actually dresses in a manner suitable for her age and her job. It's not offensive. It's not distracting in a set that's bright orange. Leave her alone I say!
Nonsense. It's nice to see someone with some style and not looking like the frumpy tarts most people on BBC News seem to be. Give her a break - she's young and actually dresses in a manner suitable for her age and her job. It's not offensive. It's not distracting in a set that's bright orange. Leave her alone I say!
STYLE!!! it looks like something Ivy Tilsley would have worn in Corrie way back when.
She has a very interesting site. Someone obviously keeping it bang up to date with what she's up to. Lots on there about where she was over Xmas, what bulletins she presented prior to, and upon her return.
