Basically the flash fooding in Cornwall has trapped up to 50 people in cars.
Anyway I think the news was broken in the following order... Sky, BBC, ITV
Interesting looking at each channels interviews seeing how their presentation differs. When Sky did a phone interview they just showed a screen saying "Sky News Live" above the astons. ITV used a more colourful 'ITV squares' background above the astons. In comparision BBC showed a map focusing on Cornwall as their background for the phone interview.
Oops - I think we created a thread at the same time, so I've deleted mine.
Regardless, will repeat my original post...
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Right, this is a source of continual annoyance for me.
Why is it that British TV networks are so unutterably dire at getting pictures out of locations across the UK, including central London. Rhetorical question, perhaps.
About half an hour ago or so the news networks starting reporting about floods in Cornwall, people trapped in cars, cars flying all over the road, village needing to be evacuated, massive search and rescue operations going on... enough for them to lend themselves to about 20 minutes of on-going coverage.
And yet none of them have any pictures. There are crappy little maps up, and in fairness to Sky and News 24 they have both had a fair few phone interviews - Sky probably more so than the others. But what use are they without pictures?
Were this the US, much though I hate local tv networks there, we would be seeing pictures and from helicopters and reports from local correspondents. Over here, the best we can manage is interviews with local publicans. So much so that both ITV and Sky (and News 24 probably when it get round to it) are appealing on air for people to email in photos.
Curious that they are taking audio coverage from Five Live.
Not sure whose helicopter it is, or if the Beeb have rented it out, or something. Quite good pictures, though; just a shame they came two hours after the reports broke, and that they aren't live.