DO
The diffrence being that in Broken News it was an incident that didn't actually happen (a missing plane that turned out not to be)... but this has happened.
It has huge news value, both in terms of the area that it is affecting, the rareity of the event and the excellent pictures of the fire and smoke
Thats the problem, when all's said and done all we are talking about here is a big bang and a lot of smoke, all right for a slow news day but let's not pretend this will have any historical importance.
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dodrade posted:
I think the news channels have got a litle over excited over this one. Once it was clear it was not terrorism and nobody had died I think they should have returned to normal. Broken News parodied this sort of reaction only last week.
The diffrence being that in Broken News it was an incident that didn't actually happen (a missing plane that turned out not to be)... but this has happened.
It has huge news value, both in terms of the area that it is affecting, the rareity of the event and the excellent pictures of the fire and smoke
Thats the problem, when all's said and done all we are talking about here is a big bang and a lot of smoke, all right for a slow news day but let's not pretend this will have any historical importance.
GE
thegeek
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biggest peacetime explosion the country's seen? It'll probably make it into the Guinness Book of Records.
I heard a big boom in the office in Shepherd's Bush this morning, but since we're right next to the A40 and the building's goods entrance, it's not unusal to hear lorries being loud; it just didn't occur to me that it might have been from so far away - and that 6am on a Sunday would be an odd time for it.
For the first hour or so, Sky were stomping all over News 24; they may have been first to break it, but they just dipped in and out of the story until 0630, when they went to a 15 minute edition of Reporters. Halfway through, they put a Breaking News aston up.
Meanwhile, Sky were live on the phone with Geoff Meade (who lives in Hemel), and after speaking to him, had a steady stream of eyewitnesses and other locals on the phone, presumably while Geoff went and jumped in the car. They had a second reporter (Enda somebody) on the scene within half an hour.
Sometime before 8, Geoff Meade got to the Ramada hotel, and gave his phone to an evacuated resident to speak live on air (she could be heard laughing a bit when he asked the rhetorical question "I'm from Sky News, would you like to go on air?"), while he went and did some fact-finding from other people.
News 24 getting Daniel Corbett in the studio at 0720 was an interesting touch; he was explaining the weather conditions that would have caused the sound wave to have travelled so far.
The first mention of terrorism I heard was on the ITVNC, just after 8am. They were ruling it out, mind.
I heard a big boom in the office in Shepherd's Bush this morning, but since we're right next to the A40 and the building's goods entrance, it's not unusal to hear lorries being loud; it just didn't occur to me that it might have been from so far away - and that 6am on a Sunday would be an odd time for it.
For the first hour or so, Sky were stomping all over News 24; they may have been first to break it, but they just dipped in and out of the story until 0630, when they went to a 15 minute edition of Reporters. Halfway through, they put a Breaking News aston up.
Meanwhile, Sky were live on the phone with Geoff Meade (who lives in Hemel), and after speaking to him, had a steady stream of eyewitnesses and other locals on the phone, presumably while Geoff went and jumped in the car. They had a second reporter (Enda somebody) on the scene within half an hour.
Sometime before 8, Geoff Meade got to the Ramada hotel, and gave his phone to an evacuated resident to speak live on air (she could be heard laughing a bit when he asked the rhetorical question "I'm from Sky News, would you like to go on air?"), while he went and did some fact-finding from other people.
News 24 getting Daniel Corbett in the studio at 0720 was an interesting touch; he was explaining the weather conditions that would have caused the sound wave to have travelled so far.
The first mention of terrorism I heard was on the ITVNC, just after 8am. They were ruling it out, mind.
PT
This sounds awful - althought nobody was fatally injured. Mark Austin is doing the Sunday ITV News bulletin.
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rts
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It's being covered well by the continent, mainly Germany's ZDF and France's TF1. Also being covered by al Jazeera.
BR
It often is in my opinion, generally as ITV1 usually have ITV News Specials while the BBC simulcast News 24, which doesn't seem to special.
We've talked about this before, but today is an illustration of how channels use the term "Breaking News".
When I first turned on the TV this morning (about 10am) all the news channels were using it - though I think the BBC were only using it on the ticker.
The last time I tuned into ITV News was about 2pm, and they were still using it - while Sky News were still using it at 6pm.
P.S. Love the wideshot of the weather - be nice if it could be incorporated at the beginning or end of the bulletins!
Andrew posted:
There's an extra news bulletin on now on ITV1.
The best terrestrial coverage has surely been on ITV1 this time
The best terrestrial coverage has surely been on ITV1 this time
It often is in my opinion, generally as ITV1 usually have ITV News Specials while the BBC simulcast News 24, which doesn't seem to special.
We've talked about this before, but today is an illustration of how channels use the term "Breaking News".
When I first turned on the TV this morning (about 10am) all the news channels were using it - though I think the BBC were only using it on the ticker.
The last time I tuned into ITV News was about 2pm, and they were still using it - while Sky News were still using it at 6pm.
P.S. Love the wideshot of the weather - be nice if it could be incorporated at the beginning or end of the bulletins!
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ohwhatanight
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But surely those weather graphics have been superimposed and 'stuck-on' behind the presenters to give the illusion of the actual wether graphics?
Also - seems this website has been affected by the explosions http://www.asos.com/pgeHolding.html
Also - seems this website has been affected by the explosions http://www.asos.com/pgeHolding.html