Anyone seen the press release out today? Just as we thought but one VERY interesting thing... right at the bottom it says the Six will be presented by George Alagiah and CURRENTLY Natasha Kaplinsky. So why did they feel the need to add the word currently in there?? I think theres something we dont know
Something which always irratates me about the six is that there is absoloulty no interaction and informality between the two presenters. Its just far too rehearsed and samey. So i was rather surprised to see them trying to do a bit tonight. I dont know if anyone saw it but it failed completley in my opinion and appeared to throw poor old George. The problem with it was that it wasn't actually spontaneous - it was totally rehearsed.
There is a running order, and a cameraman. I was under the impression that Nationals didn't use a cameraperson, that the cameras were remotely operated by the gallery.
The barcodes are used for the virtual reality stuff that is seen on Nationals. There is often one cameraman for certain bulletins to do the sweeping shots.
Ah. Well, thats that answered. You really do learn something new each day, don't suppose you know how many cameras there are in the Breakfast/Newsnight/Working Lunch/Newsround studio do you? I count about 7 (see "Studio Cameras" in the main forum)
Anyone seen the press release out today? Just as we thought but one VERY interesting thing... right at the bottom it says the Six will be presented by George Alagiah and CURRENTLY Natasha Kaplinsky. So why did they feel the need to add the word currently in there?? I think theres something we dont know
Let's hope that its not permanent and that it will be someone else (Sian, or if not her, Jane) PLEASE. Although the word probably isn't relevant and I'm just clutching at straws.
Journalism, like pizza chains, loves a formula. This week we've been debating those phrases used on news programmes which really grate. "The deadly H5N1 virus" came up. It is indisputably pretty deadly, or at least, as our science editor says, highly pathogenic, but very quickly the words start to wash over you in a meaningless way, like "the radical cleric Moqtada Sadr" or in an earlier time "mainly Muslim West Beirut".
My own pet hate is the phrase they use on BBC1 bulletins before the regional programmes, "now the news where you are", which always sounds to me like "wherever the hell you are". I'm told the problem is you can't use the form "across the country" because that alienates the Channel Islanders. But there must be a better way - perhaps you know it.
The Ten would not work on World as it has to much of a UK bias. They often lead on stories which do not rate even an OOV on World as the story is purley of interest to domestic viewers. The 10 programme is one of those taken by WLIW in America and is thus on of the important american programmes on World.
Anderson Cooper airs on CNNi for an hour each weeknight.
