What would Kay Burley have access to at a local radio station? I guess she would have gallery talk back - only telephone quality or would this also use ISDN? She must have had a Sky News feed - perhaps off air so slightly delayed? How would this compare to what the presenter at Sky News Centre had access to?
I didn't think she could be back at Sky Centre - seeing as she was LIVE from Rothbury during Afternoon LIVE upto 5pm, it would of been a mad dash south in 7hours with little sleep to come back on air, although I felt it did need a more high profile presenter even if it was overnight.
It only takes around five and a half hours driving according to Google and she may well have been flying.
Five and a half hours !? You've never been on the M1 on a Friday afternoon !
Probably flew, Newcastle airport is only about 12 miles from Rothbury, and Heathrow to Sky is a short taxi ride.
Did ITV or BBC have sound coverage of the shooting? Good coup for Sky if they didn't.
Media loved this story - a small rural village besieged by a "lunatic" gunman. From the interviews I've heard from the residents of the village, it seems like they didn't really care about what was going on. I love the way the media hype up the story - a village in shock and this sort of thing.
Media loved this story - a small rural village besieged by a "lunatic" gunman. From the interviews I've heard from the residents of the village, it seems like they didn't really care about what was going on. I love the way the media hype up the story - a village in shock and this sort of thing.
It's impossible for one person to
beseige
anywhere!
It's probably more like they felt beseiged by the Police.
Media loved this story - a small rural village besieged by a "lunatic" gunman. From the interviews I've heard from the residents of the village, it seems like they didn't really care about what was going on. I love the way the media hype up the story - a village in shock and this sort of thing.
It's impossible for one person to
beseige
anywhere!
It's probably more like they felt beseiged by the Police.
The gunman is the cause of all that. If this had of happened in 1988, I wonder what attention the story would have got...(I'm aware that I started this thread!)
Media loved this story - a small rural village besieged by a "lunatic" gunman. From the interviews I've heard from the residents of the village, it seems like they didn't really care about what was going on. I love the way the media hype up the story - a village in shock and this sort of thing.
It's impossible for one person to
beseige
anywhere!
It's probably more like they felt beseiged by the Police.
Or the media.
Serious questions to ask (that can probably not be answered) on the role the media played in this. Obviously the fear was by not giving him attention he could go on the rampage, but on the other hand it could have all ended a lot quicker had the media not been a willing accessory to his "siege".
And Friday night especially asked the question about rolling news. In these circumstances is it really appropriate to run the events (however uneventful) live, or is it just better - especially for those most directly affected - to just update the story everytime there is a development, rather than wait hours and hours in the hope that development will occur live.
Raoul was from the Fenham area of Newcastle-upon-Tyne which is also where the Newcastle General Hospital is.
Also if you listen to the sound on
that
clip you can hear two small 'pop' sounds before one gunshot sound. I take it this is the sounds of the TASERs being fired (although this still hasn't been proven).
The IPCC have said that two TASERs were fired at Raoul just before he shot himself, so I guess it was the TASER shots that made him flinch and pull his own trigger.
Odd we didn't hear anymore from Gazza throughout the night, although I'm sure he appeared on MetroRadio this morning.
Plus the images the BBC and Sky were getting, the night-vision ones, were from the same camera so I take it Sky shared their footage last night. The BBC were live at the hospital when Raoul arrived and, from how I understand it last night, gave Sky some footage.
900,000 viewers is really good for a breaking news story.
You're honestly going to be rude enough to ignore Schwing's post when (s)he's clearly taken the time to respond to your (rather silly) post in a careful manner?
