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CA
cat
Oh, bloody hell, The Mope is outside Parliament.

Just had another ''So, James, tell us what we know so far''... again.

Does Jon Sopel actually have any sort of remit for being outside Parliament? He's spent five minutes bumbling around talking nonsense.

Oh... here we are again. ''So, James, what do you make of it?''
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AdamP
cat posted:
It's a good point.

I'm confused as to why it is that when there has been no official confirmation whatsoever of his resignation that News 24, supposedly the bastions of caution, are not attributing their story to anyone.

Whilst Sky are quoting MPs, and ITV are saying 'we know', News 24 are just saying he's gone and that's that... without any official confirmation. Seems a bit of a backtrack on their supposedly rigid policies on sources.


BBC tends only to attribute when there's only one outside source. If it comes via our own correspondents, we just go with it. In this case, MPs on the Work and Pensions Select Committee told BBC Pol Corrs that they'd been told Blunkett had gone. News 24 and Five Live immediately went with it.
NG
noggin Founding member
cat posted:
Oh, bloody hell, The Mope is outside Parliament.

Just had another ''So, James, tell us what we know so far''... again.

Does Jon Sopel actually have any sort of remit for being outside Parliament? He's spent five minutes bumbling around talking nonsense.

Oh... here we are again. ''So, James, what do you make of it?''


If you're asking if Jon has any political background - then he was News 24's Chief Pol Corr for a while, I think he took over from Nick Robinson, who in turn had taken over from Huw Edwards in that role. Jon was a Pol Corr prior to moving over to presenting - he presented the 2001 Election coverage for the One, so is pretty well qualified to anchor a political story as he has the background.
CA
cat
I meant ''what's the point of him being there?''

It looks like it's about to piss it down; all of the guests are doing the 4 Millbank tour between studios so he has only spoken to one person out there; he doesn't have access to wires down there so can't really follow news as effectively as someone in a studio... as he's just illustrated brilliantly with the strap saying ''Statement from Blunkett at 12.30'' and Sopel saying ''presumably there's going to be a statement from David Blunkett at some point''

And they're talking to Stephen Pollard and James Lansdale. Again.
PH
phil-g
Just saw over at TV Newsroom a screenshot of James Landale breaking that Hilary Benn had got the Work and Pensions job, how did that pass the BBC's Breaking News tests? Oh well, they weren't wrong for long.
AP
Aphrodite007
With Me, Tim Wilcox posted:
jamej posted:
jamej posted:
Whos presenting the sport on News 24 at the moment?


Here she is - any ideas?

http://jolnetwork.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/who1.JPG


I think she is called Rebecca Lowe (?). I remember noticing her too. Interestingly, on Chris Lowe's profile, I seem to remember it mentioning that his son and daughter are "sports journalists"...

I wonder if she is the daughter of our weekend presenter friend with the rather large bifocal spectacles?


So that's what she looks like! She also does reports for Football Focus and Final Score.
MO
Moz
noggin posted:
cat posted:
Oh, bloody hell, The Mope is outside Parliament.

Just had another ''So, James, tell us what we know so far''... again.

Does Jon Sopel actually have any sort of remit for being outside Parliament? He's spent five minutes bumbling around talking nonsense.

Oh... here we are again. ''So, James, what do you make of it?''


If you're asking if Jon has any political background - then he was News 24's Chief Pol Corr for a while, I think he took over from Nick Robinson, who in turn had taken over from Huw Edwards in that role. Jon was a Pol Corr prior to moving over to presenting - he presented the 2001 Election coverage for the One, so is pretty well qualified to anchor a political story as he has the background.

Jon (one of the best presenters of the moment in my opinion) was excellent the other day from the Green while they were covering the first Tory leadership vote. Made it quite entertaining. In complete contrast the wooden Philippa Thomas (who should be sent back to the US where she was quite good) was dull as hell in the coverage of the second vote.
JA
jamesmd
phil-g posted:
Just saw over at TV Newsroom a screenshot of James Landale breaking that Hilary Benn had got the Work and Pensions job, how did that pass the BBC's Breaking News tests? Oh well, they weren't wrong for long.


Hilary Benn, work and pensions Laughing
DV
DVB Cornwall
WBR tonight - second part News24 Tower not on. Still showing the recorded BBC World Tower (and no clock either)
HA
harshy Founding member
DVB Cornwall posted:
WBR tonight - second part News24 Tower not on. Still showing the recorded BBC World Tower (and no clock either)


I thought News 24 took a clean copy, clearly that can't be the case then.
WI
william Founding member
noggin posted:
cat posted:
Oh, bloody hell, The Mope is outside Parliament.

Just had another ''So, James, tell us what we know so far''... again.

Does Jon Sopel actually have any sort of remit for being outside Parliament? He's spent five minutes bumbling around talking nonsense.

Oh... here we are again. ''So, James, what do you make of it?''


If you're asking if Jon has any political background - then he was News 24's Chief Pol Corr for a while, I think he took over from Nick Robinson, who in turn had taken over from Huw Edwards in that role. Jon was a Pol Corr prior to moving over to presenting - he presented the 2001 Election coverage for the One, so is pretty well qualified to anchor a political story as he has the background.


Ah - that explains a lot (although surely it must have been *before* Nick Robinson? - as I remember Guto Harri effectively shadowed Nick while he was still at 24 and then took over his various duties (including Straight Talk) when Nick went to ITN. Then a while afterwards James Langdale turned up.

Anyway I was very impressed yesterday during the Blunkett coverage with his numerous historical / political references and his knowledge of London streets.

It was nice to see Nick phoning the story through to 24 first and giving them a fair bit of time during the morning.

Edit: Sopel's News 24 biography clears most of this up - didn't realise he'd written a book about Blair as well.
NG
noggin Founding member
harshy posted:
DVB Cornwall posted:
WBR tonight - second part News24 Tower not on. Still showing the recorded BBC World Tower (and no clock either)


I thought News 24 took a clean copy, clearly that can't be the case then.


News 24 and World shows can no longer be recorded without the Dog+Clock (i.e. the tower) but with name supers - as they come from the same source. You can only mask the tower if you want to record the studio output with name supers etc.

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