Fair enough, but I'd argue my last post is valid. Do we really need them to speculate on the killer for us? I find asking for submitted pictures abhorrent along with the special coverage of different victims purely where they came from (no doubt to the joy of that particular news desk). BBC News 24 is as guilty of this as any channel or website.
Fair enough, but I'd argue my last post is valid. Do we really need them to speculate on the killer for us? I find asking for submitted pictures abhorrent along with the special coverage of different victims purely where they came from (no doubt to the joy of that particular news desk). BBC News 24 is as guilty of this as any channel or website.
Whatever reasonable point you have expressed there is negated by you behaving like an ar$e.
If you want to be taken seriously then behave in a more responsible way.
Fair enough, but I'd argue my last post is valid. Do we really need them to speculate on the killer for us? I find asking for submitted pictures abhorrent along with the special coverage of different victims purely where they came from (no doubt to the joy of that particular news desk). BBC News 24 is as guilty of this as any channel or website.
Whatever reasonable point you have expressed there is negated by you behaving like an ar$e.
If you want to be taken seriously then behave in a more responsible way.
Well said, Gavin.
NerdBoy, you may have valid points about the techniques employed by broadcasters, but your comments relating to this news story are very insensitive. From your posts today, it seems you are not interested in news unless it directly affects you. Well, one day (and I sincerely hope it doesn't) a news story like this might affect you. I'm sure you would want to hear about your loved ones.
From your posts today, it seems you are not interested in news unless it directly affects you. Well, one day (and I sincerely hope it doesn't) a news story like this might affect you. I'm sure you would want to hear about your loved ones.
err no, fortunately. I wouldn't want to find out by radio/television though, that would be ghastly. I see little more reporting to be done with this story. No one is on the loose, political ramifications are slight if any and I assume it is clear who is injured or dead. Fine, give brief details of the news, but it needn't go past that. The rest is morbid titillation for the vast majority.
Examples:
-Was subsequent 11/09/2001 reporting helped by the broadcast of last minute phone calls to loved ones? Get a real sense of what was happening, right?
-The Morecambe bay cocklers phoning the coastguard -- added an emotional edge to the story, yes?
Or both simply a fascination with what people do when they're going to die that they couldn't resist putting out. Same with this, grizzly detail here, speculative guess work there and shaky generated user content as well. Even get Matt Frei dishing out the fact one of the dead was a holocaust survivor as if it were a pub quiz question. If they want to have the world's wildest gun rampages, label it as such, not news.
I'm not certain, but it looks like N24 is showing the BBC World ticker, but with the N24 DOG and clock laid over it. The ticker title text - "HEADLINES", "BUSINESS" etc - is appearing beneath the clock, visible through the translucent black backing to the clock itself. The white ticker backing itself seems to be a couple of pixels lower than the N24 DOG.
Additionally, the bbcnews.com address and international phone numbers are being used.
I've also just noticed that two sets of supers are being shown, with the second set visible through the translucent lower black information line of the supers. It appears that there is a simulcast with BBC World at the moment, but I don't understand why a) two sets of graphics need to be shown, rather than a single set for both outputs; b) why, if a seperate set of graphics is indeed needed for each output, N24 isn't showing its own ticker; and c) why the World graphics are noticeably lower than those on N24.
I'm not certain, but it looks like N24 is showing the BBC World ticker, but with the N24 DOG and clock laid over it. The ticker title text - "HEADLINES", "BUSINESS" etc - is appearing beneath the clock, visible through the translucent black backing to the clock itself. The white ticker backing itself seems to be a couple of pixels lower than the N24 DOG.
Additionally, the bbcnews.com address and international phone numbers are being used.
I've also just noticed that two sets of supers are being shown, with the second set visible through the translucent lower black information line of the supers. It appears that there is a simulcast with BBC World at the moment, but I don't understand why a) two sets of graphics need to be shown, rather than a single set for both outputs; b) why, if a seperate set of graphics is indeed needed for each output, N24 isn't showing its own ticker; and c) why the World graphics are noticeably lower than those on N24.
BBC World doesn't have a clock like N24. So our ticker's on screen space is wider. However, during the nighttime simulcast we take the N24 ticker, with the clock obscured by a red extension to the 'BBC World' white on graphic. Goodness knows what has happened. There still seem to several ghosts in the machine, although I can say that as a BBC World viewer, the graphics are overall much improved since the introduction of Vizrt. All we need now is to see the new breakfiller, which is on the way following consumer research, and a new set, especially a new second set.
Went off on one about Barclays new PinSentry system when doing a 1:1 with Julia Caesar, and implored his bank HSBC not to introduce a similar device for it's customers.
Went off on one about Barclays new PinSentry system when doing a 1:1 with Julia Caesar, and implored his bank HSBC not to introduce a similar device for it's customers.
He's gone up significantly in my estimation now.
Yes - Huw's a great character. I nearly met him however a meeting came up.
