BBC News Channel Presentation - 21/03/16 onwards

The aston had a brain fart when Jeremy Hunt was confirmed to remain as Health Secretary. It tried to "type out" the news two or three times before it actually fully appeared on screen. Or perhaps someone couldn't believe the news!

Well Jeremy Corbyn was mis-Aston'd as Boris Johnson and George Osborne as Jeremy Corbyn a little earlier too.

Some interesting shots on the Papers tonight, including this from the newsroom camera mid discussion, which I've not seen during a programme before:



Always nice when they get more creative!

Incidentally, for no apparent reason the Papers started a bit late this evening meaning they didn't have time for the short edition of Click scheduled, and so just carried on. They then overran on the Papers, skipping the end titles to go straight to the weather, before cutting back to the studio straight away as presumably they had just missed the TOTH.

Those screens at the top normally show a bunch of other channels like Sky News and CNN and it seems they go to a special effort to blank them out when that camera is in use.

Must be annoying for those in the newsroom keeping an eye on what other networks are doing although I guess there feeds available internally anyway.

Are The Papers at 23:30 a repeat or a live discussion? Asking for a friend.

I love Martine Croxall as a presenter, she's brilliant and sassy.

Live discussion.

That shot's been used before on The Papers.

I found The Papers very difficult to watch tonight. All the front pages were focussed on the fire, and rightly so. Digby Jones acknowledged the loss of life at the outset, but was then keen to criticise Corbyn, and talk about the difference between profit and costs. He ignored the presenter and talked over the other guest. Discussion and debate are important, but he was a poor choice of guest for tonight. It struck an uncomfortable tone, in my view.

[quote:0249818268="Willow7" pid="1065734"]I found The Papers very difficult to watch tonight. All the front pages were focussed on the fire, and rightly so. Digby Jones acknowledged the loss of life at the outset, but was then keen to criticise Corbyn, and talk about the difference between profit and costs. He ignored the presenter and talked over the other guest. Discussion and debate are important, but he was a poor choice of guest for tonight. It struck an uncomfortable tone, in my view.[/quote:0249818268]

If you want someone to spout the liberal views that the BBC normally loves then yes Digby was a poor choice however a paper review needs to pick up on major errors made in the front pages and Corbyn's comments are frankly ludicrous and deserve criticism.

What a ludicrous statement. First off, if the paper reviews job was to do that, they'd be there all night.

Second, what statement did Jeremy Corbyn make that you thought was ludicrous?

Does anyone think when the BBC Business presenter speaks to a guest in the BBC Newsroom, that the guest should be in the studio instead? The background noise is distracting.

Have never noticed the background noise, TBH. I always thought those "newsroom" interviews were just green screen.