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Moira Stuart, one of the best BBC News presenters they ever had....so naturally they got rid of her for no credible reason.
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She wasn't a news presenter, she is a news reader. She is a trained Actor and not a journalist, that's a pretty credible reason for her departure given that the newdreader role is now obsolete on BBC TV news. (Apart from 3 minutes on Marr each Sunday.)
She presented a few weekend bulletins before her TV departure where she clearly struggled asking follow up questions of correspondents. Which is probably why Sky, ITN and ITV Breakfast never rushed to offer her a job.
Lovely woman and delivery but that's not enough in the 21st Century.
I'd probably watch these if they were an hour long long. Worst thing is they're about
half an hour of content padded out to three hours by irrelevant talking heads
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Moira Stuart, one of the best BBC News presenters they ever had....so naturally they got rid of her for no credible reason.
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She wasn't a news presenter, she is a news reader. She is a trained Actor and not a journalist, that's a pretty credible reason for her departure given that the newdreader role is now obsolete on BBC TV news. (Apart from 3 minutes on Marr each Sunday.)
She presented a few weekend bulletins before her TV departure where she clearly struggled asking follow up questions of correspondents. Which is probably why Sky, ITN and ITV Breakfast never rushed to offer her a job.
Lovely woman and delivery but that's not enough in the 21st Century.
IS
She wasn't a news presenter, she is a news reader. She is a trained Actor and not a journalist, that's a pretty credible reason for her departure given that the newdreader role is now obsolete on BBC TV news. (Apart from 3 minutes on Marr each Sunday.)
She presented a few weekend bulletins before her TV departure where she clearly struggled asking follow up questions of correspondents. Which is probably why Sky, ITN and ITV Breakfast never rushed to offer her a job.
Lovely woman and delivery but that's not enough in the 21st Century.
But fine for Radio 2 though...
She wasn't a news presenter, she is a news reader. She is a trained Actor and not a journalist, that's a pretty credible reason for her departure given that the newdreader role is now obsolete on BBC TV news. (Apart from 3 minutes on Marr each Sunday.)
She presented a few weekend bulletins before her TV departure where she clearly struggled asking follow up questions of correspondents. Which is probably why Sky, ITN and ITV Breakfast never rushed to offer her a job.
Lovely woman and delivery but that's not enough in the 21st Century.
But fine for Radio 2 though...
IS
Record, and fast forward all the crap and you can whizz through the quite quickly. Not seen last night's yet but some of the others in the series have had some great unusual archive in them - stuff I've never heard of. Great research packaged badly
I'd probably watch these if they were an hour long long. Worst thing is they're about half an hour of content padded out to three hours by irrelevant talking heads.
Record, and fast forward all the crap and you can whizz through the quite quickly. Not seen last night's yet but some of the others in the series have had some great unusual archive in them - stuff I've never heard of. Great research packaged badly
SP
The Radio 2 role is just reading a script somebody else prepared though isn't it?
IT
Moira Stuart, one of the best BBC News presenters they ever had....so naturally they got rid of her for no credible reason.
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She wasn't a news presenter, she is a news reader. She is a trained Actor and not a journalist, that's a pretty credible reason for her departure given that the newdreader role is now obsolete on BBC TV news. (Apart from 3 minutes on Marr each Sunday.)
She presented a few weekend bulletins before her TV departure where she clearly struggled asking follow up questions of correspondents. Which is probably why Sky, ITN and ITV Breakfast never rushed to offer her a job.
Lovely woman and delivery but that's not enough in the 21st Century.
OK, but Moira actually did a lot more than just read the news - during the 1980s and 1990s she was actually a presenter of all of the main national bulletins, not just summaries. I take your point that modern bulletins probably require more of a journalistic background, but I think you may be surprised to learn that there are at least one or two current high profile international news presenters who don't actually have a degree in journalism. Instead they came through the experience route....so it's not just about having a qualification in journalism.
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I'd probably watch these if they were an hour long long. Worst thing is they're about
half an hour of content padded out to three hours by irrelevant talking heads
.
Moira Stuart, one of the best BBC News presenters they ever had....so naturally they got rid of her for no credible reason.
.
She wasn't a news presenter, she is a news reader. She is a trained Actor and not a journalist, that's a pretty credible reason for her departure given that the newdreader role is now obsolete on BBC TV news. (Apart from 3 minutes on Marr each Sunday.)
She presented a few weekend bulletins before her TV departure where she clearly struggled asking follow up questions of correspondents. Which is probably why Sky, ITN and ITV Breakfast never rushed to offer her a job.
Lovely woman and delivery but that's not enough in the 21st Century.
OK, but Moira actually did a lot more than just read the news - during the 1980s and 1990s she was actually a presenter of all of the main national bulletins, not just summaries. I take your point that modern bulletins probably require more of a journalistic background, but I think you may be surprised to learn that there are at least one or two current high profile international news presenters who don't actually have a degree in journalism. Instead they came through the experience route....so it's not just about having a qualification in journalism.