I know a very select group of people are considered to be so well-known that they are never name captioned when appearing on the news, for example The Queen or Tony Blair.
Gordon Brown is being referred to as Prime Minister Delegate or the Next Prime Minister on name captions at the moment, I'm wondering when he becomes PM (barring an unfortunate incident) will he instantly become so well known that we don't need to be told who he is, or will we get Gordon Brown, Prime Minister graphics and, if so, for how long?
On CNNI and BBC World, no matter how long they have been serving, even the most famous of famous still get name tags on screen, including TB and GWB. The only person who I have noticed does not get these on screen astons is Her Majesty.
Usually, on domestic services like BBC One, BBC Two, BBC News 24, the BBC don't aston the British Prime Minister, Her Majesty the Queen, and the US President.
There have also been phases when they don't aston the leader of the opposition (i.e. The Conservatives) and sometimes the leader of the Lib Dems have not been astoned - though recently when Cameron and Campbell both took over they were both astoned as people weren't familiar with them.
I think Pope John Paul II was generally not given an aston. As with the examples of party leaders given by noggin, I don't suppose Benedict XVI is yet sufficiently familiar to justify the omission of a caption.
On a similar tack, it is usual for channels like CNN and AJ to aston Gordon Brown as something like 'UK Finance Minister', the term 'Chancellor of The Exchequer' meaning nothing to the rest of the world
I think Pope John Paul II was generally not given an aston. As with the examples of party leaders given by noggin, I don't suppose Benedict XVI is yet sufficiently familiar to justify the omission of a caption.
Although captioning the Catholic Pope as 'Pope' is technically wrong as there is more than one Pope!
Gordon Brown is being referred to as Prime Minister Delegate or the Next Prime Minister on name captions at the moment, I'm wondering when he becomes PM (barring an unfortunate incident) will he instantly become so well known that we don't need to be told who he is, or will we get Gordon Brown, Prime Minister graphics and, if so, for how long?
This is horifically incorrect of the BBC, and it has been annoying me for some time.
The Queen is under no obligation to choose Brown as the next Prime Minister (even though there is almost no chance that she would pick somebody else) but the BBC are implying that Brown now has a contitutional right to become PM, which is misleading.
The Queen is under no obligation to choose Brown as the next Prime Minister (even though there is almost no chance that she would pick somebody else) but the BBC are implying that Brown now has a contitutional right to become PM, which is misleading.
Not really, it's not as if 'Next Prime Minister' or 'Prime Minister Delegate' have any official status.
The constitution (not that we have a proper one) works on precedent, to which thre is none in this case - I don't think even Thatcher/Major had this sot of changeover period
IMO, until he officially takes up the role, GB should still be labelled as the COTE or FM. It is silly that he is being announced on tv as Prime Minister Designate.
On RTÉ it tends to be basically the Taoiseach, the President, the British Prime Minister, the Queen (on the rare occasions she would be on RTÉ), the Pope, and the US President who don't get astons, I think just about everyone else does.