When a big story breaks like the man trying to blow up a US plane, it shows just how lax new orgs become on holidays and weekends. I don't think I've seen anything on CNN yet about it, same with Fox News ( a station which I thought would be all over it).
Nice to see the tradition of Quest doing Christmas mornings is still alive.
Yes, I like Richard reading the "normal" news bulletins. Although it was a tad Quest-ish when he brought the producer onto the set to pull a Christmas Cracker!!
Errol Barnett is on today doing the terrorist story, aided by Nic Robertson in London. As the correspondent mentioned above, CNN was a little bit thin with the coverage initially, although now seem to have it under control, whereas BBC World has done the exact opposite (heavy early coverage but thinning rapidly.)
Ali Velshi seems to do quite a bit of relief anchoring as well as his business reporting. Also with it being Christmas Day it may well have a been a case of getting whoever was prepared to wrok
CNN Deployments To Haiti
As dawn begins to break over Haiti, CNN correspondents and anchors are already enroute to report on location.
CNN correspondents deployed so far:
- Jonathan Mann (CNN International Anchor)
- Ivan Watson (CNN International Correspondent)
- Anderson Cooper (CNN Anchor)
- Susan Candiotti (CNN Correspondent)
- Gary Tuchman (CNN Correspondent)
- Dr. Sanjay Gupta (CNN Chief Medical Correspondent)
In addition to continuing coverage on air, CNN has created a special webpage featuring the latest news from the Haiti. It can be accessed at: cnn.com/haiti
Gotta say I think CNN have been top class with the news out of Haiti. From the first reports in Tuesday's BackStory through to the current coverage, they have been on top of it the whole way. CNN has easily outstripped MSNBC and Fox News on this one, and even beaten BBC and Sky on this as well.
Totally agree, they are on top of this story from the first second, they had first live reports from their reporters on the ground and they sent so many of them. Gupta is even helping the local doctors in treating injured people.
I'm on vacation in the US and CNN Domestic have been superb; from the minute it broke in the Situation Room to today (Thursday). Non stop and rolling coverage, and really informative, and totally moving. They've got it spot on.
CNN Domestic is building a new studio in the Atlanta HQ. It's a shame really, since the current set is quite iconic with the 'CNN' logos above the presenters, the view on the atrium also.
