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Ah, we seem to be talking about different things then. When it's happening live, then it's perfectly justifiable, and even necessary. What I was referencing was the same technique, being used in pre-recorded packages, as though the report was actually happening then, instead of some hours earlier. I don't think that adds anything, where as actual live reporting from an event happening at that moment, is perfectly justifiable.
Most of the "pointless lives" are done because the pre packaged report has been put together in the satellite van at the location.
Doing a quick two way before the package is played out costs next to nothing extra and gives the viewer a sense that it is the most up to date information, compared to a pre rec package that could have been in the can for several hours.
Wasn't even referencing "pointless lives". What I was talking about was an "as-live" piece to camera that had been recorded hours earlier, as part of the pre-recorded package, as though they were literally reporting live, even though they weren't, and often these are done in very close proximity to the event. What would have been so wrong with waiting until the hall quietened down, or doing it from a balcony overlooking, why do they have to be like 6 feet or less from it, that adds nothing.
Did you actually watch this edition of C4 News? There was a reason for him being there, he was digesting the speech (which was happening live) and reporting on it. If he hadn't been there, it probably would have been unreported altogether.
Ah, we seem to be talking about different things then. When it's happening live, then it's perfectly justifiable, and even necessary. What I was referencing was the same technique, being used in pre-recorded packages, as though the report was actually happening then, instead of some hours earlier. I don't think that adds anything, where as actual live reporting from an event happening at that moment, is perfectly justifiable.
Most of the "pointless lives" are done because the pre packaged report has been put together in the satellite van at the location.
Doing a quick two way before the package is played out costs next to nothing extra and gives the viewer a sense that it is the most up to date information, compared to a pre rec package that could have been in the can for several hours.
Wasn't even referencing "pointless lives". What I was talking about was an "as-live" piece to camera that had been recorded hours earlier, as part of the pre-recorded package, as though they were literally reporting live, even though they weren't, and often these are done in very close proximity to the event. What would have been so wrong with waiting until the hall quietened down, or doing it from a balcony overlooking, why do they have to be like 6 feet or less from it, that adds nothing.