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Seb
dragonhhjh posted:
alarsne53 posted:
Breakfast News posted:
Is it just me, or have they stopped using the story dogs now on the National News bulletins?


They have been missing for about a fortnight


No they haven't


I don't recall seeing them for nearly two weeks .... how long have they been absent then?
JA
Jamesypoo
alarsne53 posted:
dragonhhjh posted:
alarsne53 posted:
Breakfast News posted:
Is it just me, or have they stopped using the story dogs now on the National News bulletins?


They have been missing for about a fortnight


No they haven't


I don't recall seeing them for nearly two weeks .... how long have they been absent then?


Well they were certainly on the 10 last night, but on watching bits of the 6 again online, I can say that they weren't there tonight,
SE
Seb
Ok, wasn't paying attention to the ten, definitely have been missing on the one and six for a while, they are using the left had screen a lot more instead.
HA
harshy Founding member
itsrobert posted:
BBriscoe posted:
Media Boy posted:
BBriscoe posted:
gregmc posted:
Evan Davies' report was so badly edited on the ten. The graphics werent in the safe areas, and it even included an out-take of reading something and then saying, once more... and starting again!!


This is just sloppy and really irritates me considering I'm paying all this money in licence fee

Did the editors/producers/reporter not watch the report before it went out?!


It's more to do with the constant battle with technology. When the technology fails, as it does with alarming regularity at the moment, these problems occur. That and the fact that most of BBC News' editing suites are tapeless, this only adds to compound the issue.
Perfect display was earlier today when The One ran a package with picture freezes and black holes in it. Then the package after failed to run. You could imagine the added stress in the gallery that caused!
And beautifully - it ran with exactly the same errors on N24 an hour later!!


So as BBC LDN says, a one off?! I think not.

Maybe I was being slightly melodramatic talking about the licence fee, but the bottom line is this is sloppy journalism and should have not slipped through the net on one of the flagship bulletins of one of the largest news organisations in the world. Thank god he only said 'let's do that again'!

I don't know if you've ever been in a transmission gallery but it is a very stressful place. I sat in the gallery for a Six O'Clock News bulletin a few years ago and it was tense in there at times. With the numbers of staff in galleries being slimmed down over the years each person has more responsibilities. This is obviously going to affect output to some extent. You have to remember that the people controlling everything are only human and we all make mistakes. Obviously in the heat of the moment, this report was cued up in the wrong place. It's not really the end of the world.


Another of the BBC departments under pressure is the department which handles all the incoming feeds to all the BBC News outlets, with cutbacks there further adding to the problem and pressure.
MA
mansoor
dragonhhjh posted:
alarsne53 posted:
dragonhhjh posted:
alarsne53 posted:
Breakfast News posted:
Is it just me, or have they stopped using the story dogs now on the National News bulletins?


They have been missing for about a fortnight


No they haven't


I don't recall seeing them for nearly two weeks .... how long have they been absent then?


Well they were certainly on the 10 last night, but on watching bits of the 6 again online, I can say that they weren't there tonight,


I watched the Ten last night and I'm certain they were NOT use, I don't think I have seen them since the weekend, maybe long.
CA
calum141
NerdBoy posted:
No, Natasha and Emily are still there


I hope this isn't too much to ask - could you please be polite?

Who do you think you are calling them, I certainly don't know. Judging on your title I presume you're the 'dog'. Natasha and Emily are attractive middle aged woman and I don't have a particular "thing" for them, but they're not ugly.
M
M@ Founding member
It was a joke you spanner.
CA
calum141
M@ posted:
It was a joke you spanner.


Yep.. but a lot of Natasha and Emily bashing goes on around here.
AP
Aphrodite007
I do think some of the insults on here get far too personal. Wonder how many would say it to the presenter's face!
JR
jrothwell97
Oops... Natasha just called the famous physicist Dr. Stephen Hawking "Steven Hawkins". Oh dear...
ST
Standby
One would think speculation over the future home of Neighbours would be the preserve of The Sun and Inside Soap, yet this gossip is also considered important enough for the Six.
Tabloid rag.
DD
DarkestDreams
Standby posted:
One would think speculation over the future home of Neighbours would be the preserve of The Sun and Inside Soap, yet this gossip is also considered important enough for the Six.
Tabloid rag.


Well it's important to
millions of BBC viewers so therefore it's an important story for BBC News to cover

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