TV
The BBC News headlines on television just now were longer than the entire Sky News Radio hourly bulletin.
EE
Extremely poor judgement from Sophy Ridge on Sky trying to get into the politics of what happened and trying to get Emily Thornberry to comment on it and criticize political decisions and the politics of it all.
Today is not the day for that and is the kind of sensationalism we do not need, election campaigning has been suspended, lets respect the dead and injured rather than getting into political arguments.
Today is not the day for that and is the kind of sensationalism we do not need, election campaigning has been suspended, lets respect the dead and injured rather than getting into political arguments.
NE
To be fair, campaigning by Labour is restarting later this evening and the Conservatives are re-starting tomorrow, and given how close the general election I'm not surprised that there is still talk about politics despite the terrible events.
Extremely poor judgement from Sophy Ridge on Sky trying to get into the politics of what happened and trying to get Emily Thornberry to comment on it and criticize political decisions and the politics of it all.
Today is not the day for that and is the kind of sensationalism we do not need, election campaigning has been suspended, lets respect the dead and injured rather than getting into political arguments.
Today is not the day for that and is the kind of sensationalism we do not need, election campaigning has been suspended, lets respect the dead and injured rather than getting into political arguments.
To be fair, campaigning by Labour is restarting later this evening and the Conservatives are re-starting tomorrow, and given how close the general election I'm not surprised that there is still talk about politics despite the terrible events.
EE
Can we not just leave the politics until later this evening then when people do campaign?
I realise Sophy has only been a presenter for a short amount of time but honestly her lack of experience is for all to see this morning, both with her line of questioning and her sensitivity, this is where the loss of Jeremy Thompson and others is really apparent.
Sophy is excellent what she does on her own show, political analysis and political interviews etc, but her inexperience of breaking news, her choice of questions and sensitivity and delivery really are not suitable to events like this and it shows.
I realise Sophy has only been a presenter for a short amount of time but honestly her lack of experience is for all to see this morning, both with her line of questioning and her sensitivity, this is where the loss of Jeremy Thompson and others is really apparent.
Sophy is excellent what she does on her own show, political analysis and political interviews etc, but her inexperience of breaking news, her choice of questions and sensitivity and delivery really are not suitable to events like this and it shows.
NE
You only get experience through practice, and while there are more experienced presenters, I don't think Sophy's done a bad job and I don't think that she's been insensitive at all. Jeremy Thompson is a loss to Sky and it's sad to see him go, but it's nice to see new presenters taking the lead.
Can we not just leave the politics until later this evening then when people do campaign?
I realise Sophy has only been a presenter for a short amount of time but honestly her lack of experience is for all to see this morning, both with her line of questioning and her sensitivity, this is where the loss of Jeremy Thompson and others is really apparent.
Sophy is excellent what she does on her own show, political analysis and political interviews etc, but her inexperience of breaking news, her choice of questions and sensitivity and delivery really are not suitable to events like this and it shows.
I realise Sophy has only been a presenter for a short amount of time but honestly her lack of experience is for all to see this morning, both with her line of questioning and her sensitivity, this is where the loss of Jeremy Thompson and others is really apparent.
Sophy is excellent what she does on her own show, political analysis and political interviews etc, but her inexperience of breaking news, her choice of questions and sensitivity and delivery really are not suitable to events like this and it shows.
You only get experience through practice, and while there are more experienced presenters, I don't think Sophy's done a bad job and I don't think that she's been insensitive at all. Jeremy Thompson is a loss to Sky and it's sad to see him go, but it's nice to see new presenters taking the lead.
EE
That's a strawmans argument with all due respect though, you could use that argument for every person who had been out of their depth to any degree in any kind of situation in any job in history, for example, you could say it's unfair to criticise Trump because he's not had experience in politics and he will only get it through practice and it's nice to see new people take the lead etc.
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A former member
Crumbs people on here just want to use presenters until there I wont use that phrase, but still Jeremy is 69, I also have no quams with Sophy's, Simpe fact is life has to go on, yes we pay our respects but there is an election in a few days.
LL
London Lite
Founding member
IsleOfIreland didn't like Sophy either.....
Kay Burley has replaced Sophy at noon.
Kay Burley has replaced Sophy at noon.
IT
itsrobert
Founding member
Just a comment regarding the criticism of ITV News which I feel I have to defend. I cannot say this enough times -
ITN no longer has the resources in place overnight to sustain all-night rolling coverage
. It's as simple as that. How people can expect a team to stay all night at work having been there for a 12 hour shift already is beyond my comprehension. And people forget time and time again that it is not just the TV presenters and journalists, but also the directors, lighting directors, sound mixers, technical directors, production assistants, programme editors, MCR engineers....... these people will all have done very long shifts over the weekend and there is no plan for new staff to come and relieve them overnight because there is no 24 hour news channel or ITV Morning News anymore. The BBC and Sky have massive resources already in place - how you can expect ITN to compete with that operation at the drop of a hat is beyond me. ITN these days has a very skeletal staff in overnight to meet its usual obligations (e.g. NBC News, GMB etc.) and without planning beforehand cannot easily mount open-ended rolling coverage anymore. Even back in ITN's heyday of the 80s and 90s, they rarely went into open-ended coverage - they would usually do short newsflashes.
I'm sorry if that comes over as a bit of a rant, but I feel quite strongly about this. For what it's worth, I was watching when all this unfolded last night and watched excerpts of BBC News, Sky News, Al Jazeera, CNN - and when ITV News came on the air I thought it was easily the best of the bunch. The BBC had the same pictures for ages and were very cautious, Sky News was frankly scaring the life out of people - and for me, ITV News struck the right balance. It had enough urgency but you could tell it had been properly planned and resourced appropriately. I can't argue with that.
I'm sorry if that comes over as a bit of a rant, but I feel quite strongly about this. For what it's worth, I was watching when all this unfolded last night and watched excerpts of BBC News, Sky News, Al Jazeera, CNN - and when ITV News came on the air I thought it was easily the best of the bunch. The BBC had the same pictures for ages and were very cautious, Sky News was frankly scaring the life out of people - and for me, ITV News struck the right balance. It had enough urgency but you could tell it had been properly planned and resourced appropriately. I can't argue with that.