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No more than usual really, he's totally unable to say anything that isn't scripted on autoque. That amount of times I've seen him mess up the "You can also watch on the interactive news multi screen..."
To be fair to him, the vast majority of his career has been spent presenting scripted, practised, highly polished, fixed bulletins. He's only been in the rolling news game for a few years. I have to admit, that it is fair to expect a lot of progression during a few years, but I do think he has improved a little.
itsrobert
Founding member
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gregmc posted:
With Sissons stumbling over his words too.
No more than usual really, he's totally unable to say anything that isn't scripted on autoque. That amount of times I've seen him mess up the "You can also watch on the interactive news multi screen..."
To be fair to him, the vast majority of his career has been spent presenting scripted, practised, highly polished, fixed bulletins. He's only been in the rolling news game for a few years. I have to admit, that it is fair to expect a lot of progression during a few years, but I do think he has improved a little.
BA
No more than usual really, he's totally unable to say anything that isn't scripted on autoque. That amount of times I've seen him mess up the "You can also watch on the interactive news multi screen..."
To be fair to him, the vast majority of his career has been spent presenting scripted, practised, highly polished, fixed bulletins. He's only been in the rolling news game for a few years. I have to admit, that it is fair to expect a lot of progression during a few years, but I do think he has improved a little.
So he's just an American news anchor in effect then, a puppet who reads what he's told to? From what I understand the beeb makes a point of not doing that, that all of their reporters, newsreaders are all fully qualified journalists... If Peter was one, it seems like he's lost his touch...
Edit: And also he's fronted question time very well, which I suspect is somewhat harder than telling people the phone number/text/email for N24... Yet he's unable to do it.
Bail
Moderator
itsrobert posted:
Bail posted:
gregmc posted:
With Sissons stumbling over his words too.
No more than usual really, he's totally unable to say anything that isn't scripted on autoque. That amount of times I've seen him mess up the "You can also watch on the interactive news multi screen..."
To be fair to him, the vast majority of his career has been spent presenting scripted, practised, highly polished, fixed bulletins. He's only been in the rolling news game for a few years. I have to admit, that it is fair to expect a lot of progression during a few years, but I do think he has improved a little.
So he's just an American news anchor in effect then, a puppet who reads what he's told to? From what I understand the beeb makes a point of not doing that, that all of their reporters, newsreaders are all fully qualified journalists... If Peter was one, it seems like he's lost his touch...
Edit: And also he's fronted question time very well, which I suspect is somewhat harder than telling people the phone number/text/email for N24... Yet he's unable to do it.
IT
No more than usual really, he's totally unable to say anything that isn't scripted on autoque. That amount of times I've seen him mess up the "You can also watch on the interactive news multi screen..."
To be fair to him, the vast majority of his career has been spent presenting scripted, practised, highly polished, fixed bulletins. He's only been in the rolling news game for a few years. I have to admit, that it is fair to expect a lot of progression during a few years, but I do think he has improved a little.
So he's just an American news anchor in effect then, a puppet who reads what he's told to? From what I understand the beeb makes a point of not doing that, that all of their reporters, newsreaders are all fully qualified journalists... If Peter was one, it seems like he's lost his touch...
Edit: And also he's fronted question time very well, which I suspect is somewhat harder than telling people the phone number/text/email for N24... Yet he's unable to do it.
I've no doubt that he's handled Question Time well, as that's really about chairing discussions and doing interviews. My point is that young presenters who have emerged over the last few years started off in rolling news, then progressed to fixed, heavily scripted bulletins. Peter Sissons' generation of presenters did it the other way around. They aren't as used to having breaking news, flexible schedules, hardly any notice of interviews, not to mention listening to a news channel gallery in their ear. I really feel the BBC made a mistake in putting Peter on News 24. They really should have left him where he was on BBC One. He was far better on the Ten O'Clock News.
itsrobert
Founding member
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itsrobert posted:
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gregmc posted:
With Sissons stumbling over his words too.
No more than usual really, he's totally unable to say anything that isn't scripted on autoque. That amount of times I've seen him mess up the "You can also watch on the interactive news multi screen..."
To be fair to him, the vast majority of his career has been spent presenting scripted, practised, highly polished, fixed bulletins. He's only been in the rolling news game for a few years. I have to admit, that it is fair to expect a lot of progression during a few years, but I do think he has improved a little.
So he's just an American news anchor in effect then, a puppet who reads what he's told to? From what I understand the beeb makes a point of not doing that, that all of their reporters, newsreaders are all fully qualified journalists... If Peter was one, it seems like he's lost his touch...
Edit: And also he's fronted question time very well, which I suspect is somewhat harder than telling people the phone number/text/email for N24... Yet he's unable to do it.
I've no doubt that he's handled Question Time well, as that's really about chairing discussions and doing interviews. My point is that young presenters who have emerged over the last few years started off in rolling news, then progressed to fixed, heavily scripted bulletins. Peter Sissons' generation of presenters did it the other way around. They aren't as used to having breaking news, flexible schedules, hardly any notice of interviews, not to mention listening to a news channel gallery in their ear. I really feel the BBC made a mistake in putting Peter on News 24. They really should have left him where he was on BBC One. He was far better on the Ten O'Clock News.
AP
I'm an American bloke, but I tend to watch the BBC World block on BBC America and the 30-min bulletin on PBS.
Anyways, on to the real intent of my post..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NP6BrDE4mOQ
Came across this on YouTube and thought if any of you had seen it or not.
Just a little clip of Newswatch explaining the new look.
Anyways, on to the real intent of my post..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NP6BrDE4mOQ
Came across this on YouTube and thought if any of you had seen it or not.
Just a little clip of Newswatch explaining the new look.
JO
I dislike Newswatch for many reasons.
I don't like the presenter (he nods his head a lot). But of course that's a personal opinion.
It's full of people who don't understand television complaining about the smallest things, with the BBC doing their best to try and tell them of things like digital switchover. But those people still dont understand.
With regards to the man moaning about not having a widescreen set - go and get one! Simple enough. If not, go and set your box to 14:9. If you can't do that, get a better box.
I don't like the presenter (he nods his head a lot). But of course that's a personal opinion.
It's full of people who don't understand television complaining about the smallest things, with the BBC doing their best to try and tell them of things like digital switchover. But those people still dont understand.
With regards to the man moaning about not having a widescreen set - go and get one! Simple enough. If not, go and set your box to 14:9. If you can't do that, get a better box.
DV
Can someone confirm please that the clock has actually been moved by roughly the equivalent of one digit towards the BBC News element of the ticker strap?
I 'think' it has but need confirmation.
I 'think' it has but need confirmation.
PR
That video stops after 11 secounds for me, and the timer says its over 4minutes long.
Managing to watch the first 11secounds of the video (due to some sort of problem) I too noticed he nods his head alot.
AutisticPsycho posted:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NP6BrDE4mOQ
Just a little clip of Newswatch explaining the new look.
Just a little clip of Newswatch explaining the new look.
That video stops after 11 secounds for me, and the timer says its over 4minutes long.
Jugalug posted:
I don't like the presenter (he nods his head a lot). But of course that's a personal opinion.
Managing to watch the first 11secounds of the video (due to some sort of problem) I too noticed he nods his head alot.
AP
Eh, worked fine for me.
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That video stops after 11 secounds for me, and the timer says its over 4minutes long.
Eh, worked fine for me.