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14th January 2013 - The Worlds Newsroom (January 2013)

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HB
HarryB
With GMT being finished for the year, Nik Gowing brings you a generic bulletin still in Studio C rather than Studio B
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bazinga
CNA posted:
Why is Aaron Heslehurst constantly shouting when he presents World Business Report? He's really REALLY loud and animated for a business presenter.

Business Presenter Alice Baxter is also shouting when she presents on BBC World News.
Here's video of Heslehurst and Baxter shouting (0:40) Wink
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yU7w8HzFBE

She is utterly dreadful.

Goodness me, I would have to agree. I don't see much of BBC World these days (the pitfalls of full time work and no VCR any more!) so I didn't realise quite what Alice's style was like. The way she placed too much emphasis on words like "suffer" and "devastation" made me cringe. It's sad to see BBC World being reduced to this sort of tabloid CNN-style presentation - can you imagine the great Anita McNaught or Keshini Navaratnam presenting like this and waving bits of paper around?


Alice Baxter is terrible, the 'wavy hand moving' and shouting doesn't suit her.
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harshy Founding member
CNA posted:
Why is Aaron Heslehurst constantly shouting when he presents World Business Report? He's really REALLY loud and animated for a business presenter.

Business Presenter Alice Baxter is also shouting when she presents on BBC World News.
Here's video of Heslehurst and Baxter shouting (0:40) Wink
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yU7w8HzFBE

She is utterly dreadful.

Goodness me, I would have to agree. I don't see much of BBC World these days (the pitfalls of full time work and no VCR any more!) so I didn't realise quite what Alice's style was like. The way she placed too much emphasis on words like "suffer" and "devastation" made me cringe. It's sad to see BBC World being reduced to this sort of tabloid CNN-style presentation - can you imagine the great Anita McNaught or Keshini Navaratnam presenting like this and waving bits of paper around?


Alice Baxter is terrible, the 'wavy hand moving' and shouting doesn't suit her.


Maybe Aaron has been giving her tips I don't remember as shouty or wavy in her presentation, I presume studio b is out of use for the Christmas period?
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mirage7
Never seen her quite as mad as Aaron...
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harshy Founding member
She fluffed her lines today and her hands were a bit wavy.
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all new Phil
I think she seems quite fabulous.
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JamesWorldNews
She's a hit with Global viewers of BBC World News. Viewer feedback has been very positive.
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AdamABC
She's a hit with Global viewers of BBC World News. Viewer feedback has been very positive.


She's very easy to understand. She's clear, concise and authoritative. No wonder why she's a hit!
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harshy Founding member
She's a hit with Global viewers of BBC World News. Viewer feedback has been very positive.

What about Aaron Hazlehurst is he popular too? maybe this is what viewers like just not the UK ones but our views are irrelevant arent they since BBC World News is aimed at overseas.
CR
Critique
Where has all this dislike from Aaron Heslehurst has come from? I thought everyone loved him.
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JamesWorldNews
Yes, both Aaron and Alice are very popular with the audience. But for different reasons.

Aaron for his lively and interesting presentation of business. Connects well with his audience.

Alice for being very British! Although she worked in Eastern Europe and grew up in South Africa, she is perceived as being an English Rose! In a similar manner that Dobbie, Eades and Embley are perceived as British stiff upper lip command!

In many parts of the world, such 'Britishness' is very highly regarded and, although they possibly don't admit it publicly, it's a selling point for BBC World in equal measure alongside their nationality diversity.

The above comments from a very good source, by the way.
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ginnyfan
I was annoyed by Alice at first but over time I started warming up to her and quite like her now. She seems to really enjoy presenting.

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