Afternoon Live goes some way of being a bit more laid back with personality. If anything both Sky and the NC have realised that having a personality newscaster in the mid-afternoon slot works well.
True, but he is still wearing a full suit, in the not very friendly and warm studio. Victoria Derbyshire works better for that IMO
Afternoon Live goes some way of being a bit more laid back with personality. If anything both Sky and the NC have realised that having a personality newscaster in the mid-afternoon slot works well.
True, but he is still wearing a full suit, in the not very friendly and warm studio. Victoria Derbyshire works better for that IMO
I’m not sure a topless Simon McCoy would have quite the same level of gravitas.
Afternoon Live goes some way of being a bit more laid back with personality. If anything both Sky and the NC have realised that having a personality newscaster in the mid-afternoon slot works well.
True, but he is still wearing a full suit, in the not very friendly and warm studio. Victoria Derbyshire works better for that IMO
I’m not sure a topless Simon McCoy would have quite the same level of gravitas.
Maybe the L!VE TV news bunny would come out of retirement to spice things up then, or even Tomasz Schafernaker presenting the weather whilst jumping on a trampoline.
It does always strike me as a bit of an anachronism that female newsreaders will often wear something towards the casual end of smart casual and that is deemed to be acceptable, but men always wear a suit.
True, but he is still wearing a full suit, in the not very friendly and warm studio. Victoria Derbyshire works better for that IMO
I’m not sure a topless Simon McCoy would have quite the same level of gravitas.
Maybe the L!VE TV news bunny would come out of retirement to spice things up then, or even Tomasz Schafernaker presenting the weather whilst jumping on a trampoline.
I'd be happy to see Tomasz shirtless and jumping on a trampoline
It does always strike me as a bit of an anachronism that female newsreaders will often wear something towards the casual end of smart casual and that is deemed to be acceptable, but men always wear a suit.
Or shirt, jacket and ditch the tie, particularly now that even the House of Commons has said that MPs needn't wear a tie - although I seem to recall some controversy when Paxman did that.
There's obviously an "accepted" way of presenting the news these days - announcing something like "Breaking News - Six dead in massacre in Outer Monglia" doesn't have the same gravitas of seriousness coming from somebody in T-Shirt, shorts and flipflops than it would have coming from a suited chap with a blue tie.
Of course there was the infamous situation on TV-am in 1987 where Anne Diamond presented coverage of the Great Storm from Thames in a red Bugs Bunny jumper, though in fairness to her that was a result of the circumstances and she did turn the jumper round once Camden Lock was back up and running again.
I'm not suggesting that a suit is inappropriate, although arguably they could lose the tie.
My point - and I'm going to word this carefully - was more that what some of the female newsreaders wear on screen is more casual than what men wear. But in saying that I do understand that for men putting on a suit is both established convention and a very safe option that (Jon Snow's ties excepted) is unlikely to attract critique or comment. There isn't quite such a default, go to safe option for women.
But if the convention is that we expect male newsreaders to wear suits, why do we not expect their female colleagues to wear something similarly formal?
Last edited by Steve in Pudsey on 4 November 2017 1:58pm
