Big news this evening . . . numerous big stories in progress, with the palace arrivals/meetings, the protests in The City and the helicopter crash . . . but we still have time for E24.
Sky News on top today IMO . . . by far.
It was quite funny how it went a little wrong from the 6:30pm opt in to N6.
It seemed like poor old Nicholas Owen didn't know what was going on because they cut back to him to early after the 'Coming Up' segment with him pulling a very bemused and strange facial expression... I hope someone recorded it because it had me cracking up!
Was quite surprised when they took the 1pm news today - Sky News were absolutely whipping their arses with coverage of the G20. At times early this afternoon it kind of appeared as if the BBC were ignoring the protests as while Sky were at the heart of the action, from what I was the BBC seemed really distant.
What is going on with the News Channel today? C-team presenters (Ellie Crisell/Julian Worricker) and (after about 2pm) a willingness to duck out of showing live protest pictures. They just did a boring personal finance chat
Julian Worricker is hardly C-team. Probably one of the best presenters on the channel!
Yea, I agree....Julian's better than some. And Ellie's improved a lot since she first appeared and while they have some of the main presenters out on location,
there's nothing wrong with having other (possibly less experienced) in the studio
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this was always going to be a big, newsworthy afternoon...so they should be using the big names to impress the casual viewers and make them return. Ben Brown aside it was all very threadbare.
I actually thought that the BBC coverage of the protests was actually far more in the action. Ben Brown and Robert Hall were at the frontline of the police cordons, while the Sky reporter was largely perched nearby relying on pixellated handheld cameras. I actually couldn't watch Sky for long periods of time as they relied on such poor quality images for so long. The actual reporting was ok though.
There was point during the afternoon yesterday when the News Channel cut away to Robert Hall, on the other side of the police cordon - probably about a half-brick's throw away. He said the police had been asking them to move away and try not to overplay the protests, which really just had a few hundred troublemakers. Shortly afterwards, they cut away to Ben Brown, back in the thick of it, interviewing people who didn't seem to have a clue what they were protesting about.
Apparently the Climate Camp near Bishopsgate was very good-natured. Obviously not exciting enough to lead with, though.
There was point during the afternoon yesterday when the News Channel cut away to Robert Hall, on the other side of the police cordon - probably about a half-brick's throw away. He said the police had been asking them to move away and try not to overplay the protests, which really just had a few hundred troublemakers.
I think that's a very valid point. From watching Sky's coverage for most of the day, you could be led to think that there was full-scale civil unrest on the streets of London, when in fact they focused on a small minority of protesters who had turned violent.
So although the BBC's coverage looked a lot less dramatic and visually exciting, I'd say their reporting was probably more responsible and reflected the situation better.
I'm just watching last night's 6.30pm London news (presented from the balcony of City Hall), and its got a much more balanced view on the protests. (And cripes! I actually find myself agreeing with Boris)
Am I the only person to have noticed, but at 07:00hrs the BBC News Channel ditched the usual BBC 1 Breakfast Simulcast and went with what I assume to be BBC World's output. I'd like to think it's a permanent arrangement, but I doubt it ?
I think that's a very valid point. From watching Sky's coverage for most of the day, you could be led to think that there was full-scale civil unrest on the streets of London, when in fact they focused on a small minority of protesters who had turned violent.
The commentary did emphasise that the violence was just from a minority of people
Pretty sure it was a World simucast this morning. There was a clock in the top left hand corner of the screen, the sort World would use to show what the local time were they are broadcasting from
At 9am they simucast with World for the first 10 minutes or so then went back to the studio
Luisa Baldini is anchoring a World simulcast (for the first five minutes of the hour) from L'Aquila in Italy, reporting on the earthquake - has she presented bulletins before, or just reports?
