As long as Natasha is given fewer rather than more airtime I for one will be extremely happy. I don't think she has the skills to ask questions that the viewer wants to hear or be able to understand the story further. I wouldn't be at all surprised if she isn't being coached in her ear about what to ask!!
Most interviews between presenter and reporter, the reporter has already written out the questions that they will be asked, so the questions will be on both script and autocue.
I do like Reporting Scotland in this respect though, although the main show is "press release nightly" when they do the chatty interviews it always seems very natural.
It's probably scripted but there's effort put into it. Makes it nicer to watch
(course RS @ 6.30 still use that horrid sting instead of the full titles but ho hum)
And I'm not a huge Kaplinsky 'fan', but she does have a degree from Oxford, so she can hardly be described as too thick.
steven hawking would be an excellent newsreader in your opinion then?
I'd quite like to see that actually! But the point I was making is that Kaplinski seems to be reguarly portrayed as rather vain and thick, when the facts would suggest otherwise.
***Herebelow, dragging-up a post that I originally made over two years ago, in a thread entitled "BIG MOIRA - The Queen of BBC News". Sentiments still stand today.....
Kind regards to you all,
Moira Stu.....er......sorry,......James***
Being relatively new to this forum, I may be touching on an age-old subject. But, I've done several searches, and cannot find answers to my questions.
I no longer live in the UK, but remeber Moira vividly and still reckon her to be the most professional of broadcasters, because:
a) She has being doing it for years;
b) She has had a wide exposure on all of BBC News' network output;
c) She is known and recognised by all of the British Viewing Public;
d) She does her job. Reads the news. Goes home. Doesn't get involved in publicity seeking stunts and Hello! and OK! Style interviews and other tabloid tat that several other presenters (Dermots / Trevors / Natasha's / Sophies) of this world seem to get involved in. She doesn't present quiz shows, appear with Bruce Forsyth on Dancing Competitions, not does she allow herself the indignation of being savaged by the likes of Trinny and Susannah. She reads the news. Does it well. Short and sweet.
I know that Moira is not strictly from a journalistic background, and some feel that all she does is read the autocue, but why the heck to BBC News have Moira hidden away on a couple of days presenting two minute bulletins on the mediocre "Breakfast" and also on "Breakfast with Frost", whilst the rest of the BBC "Senior" news journalist presenters are lampooning and having a whale of a time dabbling in the world of celebrity??????
Why doesn't the BBC - which prides itself in being a serious global news broadcaster - have rules for this sort of thing.
I cannot feel that news delivery is serious if it is being done by someone who has just danced across the screen the night before dressed in sequins, or who has been in the jungle with Peter Andre (Jennie) or dressed from tip to toe by trinny and Susannah, or who gets involved in tabloidy investigations about builders and plumbers (Kate Sanderson and Fiona Bruce) and so on and on.
I wish they were more like Moira and I really wish Moira was given a "real" job in the network's output. I think more of us are likely to listen and believe a story being read to us by Moira behind a desk, than by Natasha fluttering her eyelashes on a sofa!
As long as Natasha is given fewer rather than more airtime I for one will be extremely happy. I don't think she has the skills to ask questions that the viewer wants to hear or be able to understand the story further. I wouldn't be at all surprised if she isn't being coached in her ear about what to ask!!
Most interviews between presenter and reporter, the reporter has already written out the questions that they will be asked, so the questions will be on both script and autocue.
That isn't always the case on the BBC One bulletins.
Whilst the reporters and presenters may have discussed the interview, and guide questions MAY be written in the script, they are seldom read from autocue, as the presenter needs to look at the down the line screen or studio guest, and can't look to camera to read the autocue.
Certainly on shows like the Ten O'Clock News there aren't usually questions on autocue...
But the point I was making is that Kaplinski seems to be reguarly portrayed as rather vain and thick, when the facts would suggest otherwise.