ST
JSP talks sense at last - I can actually see her point.
CMS posted:
Perhaps though the damage has been done and maybe Moira should reconsider her options as Janet Street Porter comments:
"To talk of Moira Stuart "presenting" the news as if she wrote it, produced it, and decided on the running order is to misunderstand the task in hand. How can reading out a script once a week on a Sunday morning be your main job in life? The BBC have offered her other presenting work, and quite frankly, the woman is far too intelligent and dignified to demean herself by participating in the threadbare circus that now constitutes prime-time news. She would be better off carving out a role as a presenter of factual programmes, making sure the older generation is adequately represented on television - something I am doing very well out of, and I would expect her to as well.
Moira should not allow herself to be "saved", because the job itself is a joke."
"To talk of Moira Stuart "presenting" the news as if she wrote it, produced it, and decided on the running order is to misunderstand the task in hand. How can reading out a script once a week on a Sunday morning be your main job in life? The BBC have offered her other presenting work, and quite frankly, the woman is far too intelligent and dignified to demean herself by participating in the threadbare circus that now constitutes prime-time news. She would be better off carving out a role as a presenter of factual programmes, making sure the older generation is adequately represented on television - something I am doing very well out of, and I would expect her to as well.
Moira should not allow herself to be "saved", because the job itself is a joke."
JSP talks sense at last - I can actually see her point.
ST
She of course presented BBC Breakfast Time/News for over a decade, was also offered the Six (don't know when, but i read about that in an interview with her), did the predecessor to the Six...'Sixty Minutes', and has done numerous current affairs shows, and at present is one of the main anchors on BBC Reporting Scotland...
She also presents Songs of Praise from time to time.
I know I am heading for a lynch mob here but what is Sally Magnusson doing on this thread?
itsrobert posted:
Breakfast News posted:
Jonathan posted:
Sally Magnasson...I've seen a number of her daytime shows she presents, I was wondering what her background was. She's very good on ''missing.''
She of course presented BBC Breakfast Time/News for over a decade, was also offered the Six (don't know when, but i read about that in an interview with her), did the predecessor to the Six...'Sixty Minutes', and has done numerous current affairs shows, and at present is one of the main anchors on BBC Reporting Scotland...
She also presents Songs of Praise from time to time.
I know I am heading for a lynch mob here but what is Sally Magnusson doing on this thread?
IT
She of course presented BBC Breakfast Time/News for over a decade, was also offered the Six (don't know when, but i read about that in an interview with her), did the predecessor to the Six...'Sixty Minutes', and has done numerous current affairs shows, and at present is one of the main anchors on BBC Reporting Scotland...
She also presents Songs of Praise from time to time.
I know I am heading for a lynch mob here but what is Sally Magnusson doing on this thread?
Good point, actually! I hadn't realised which thread we were in.
itsrobert
Founding member
Anne MacKenzie Fan posted:
itsrobert posted:
Breakfast News posted:
Jonathan posted:
Sally Magnasson...I've seen a number of her daytime shows she presents, I was wondering what her background was. She's very good on ''missing.''
She of course presented BBC Breakfast Time/News for over a decade, was also offered the Six (don't know when, but i read about that in an interview with her), did the predecessor to the Six...'Sixty Minutes', and has done numerous current affairs shows, and at present is one of the main anchors on BBC Reporting Scotland...
She also presents Songs of Praise from time to time.
I know I am heading for a lynch mob here but what is Sally Magnusson doing on this thread?
Good point, actually! I hadn't realised which thread we were in.
)
CM
BBC boss defends Stuart's removal
Looks like Moira won't be coming back to BBC News. There seems to have been some mixed messages recently with the press reporting that it was reviewing its decision to axe her from Sunday AM.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6587667.stm
Looks like Moira won't be coming back to BBC News. There seems to have been some mixed messages recently with the press reporting that it was reviewing its decision to axe her from Sunday AM.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6587667.stm
LO
More from Media Guardian:
http://media.guardian.co.uk/broadcast/story/0,,2064532,00.html
http://media.guardian.co.uk/broadcast/story/0,,2064532,00.html
GE
Give me an experienced, respected newsreader above some squeaky-voiced, children's presenting 'journalist' any day.
No disrespect to anyone in particular, just illustrating the point.
Media Guardian posted:
He added that the BBC now used journalists across all its news programmes who could switch between the role of presenter and correspondent.
Give me an experienced, respected newsreader above some squeaky-voiced, children's presenting 'journalist' any day.
No disrespect to anyone in particular, just illustrating the point.
JW
Crivvens.
Although we all know (whether we accept it or not) exactly why Moira was removed from presenting the news, surely:
a) The whole situation has been further mishandled by the BBC's most senior company officer (DG) going public and admitting that her style is of a bygone era and it's time to move on. Talk about sticking the knife in! Why not just let the matter drift gracefully into obscurity, as opposed to further underlining that the lady's style is no longer desired by BBC News?????
b) The argument used is entirely nonsense - he speaks of more versatile journalists being used to front the news, rather than just a "reader". The Sunday AM slot is purely that, i.e. reading the news. The short news slot does not contain any two way interviews or any other rolling breaking news scenarios, cited as the reasons why Moira Stuart's style no longer befits current TV news. Do any of the other presenters who read the news on Sunday AM do it any differently than Moira did during the five minutes it lasts?????
Move on to better things, Moira - your management have belittled you by their public statements.
Although we all know (whether we accept it or not) exactly why Moira was removed from presenting the news, surely:
a) The whole situation has been further mishandled by the BBC's most senior company officer (DG) going public and admitting that her style is of a bygone era and it's time to move on. Talk about sticking the knife in! Why not just let the matter drift gracefully into obscurity, as opposed to further underlining that the lady's style is no longer desired by BBC News?????
b) The argument used is entirely nonsense - he speaks of more versatile journalists being used to front the news, rather than just a "reader". The Sunday AM slot is purely that, i.e. reading the news. The short news slot does not contain any two way interviews or any other rolling breaking news scenarios, cited as the reasons why Moira Stuart's style no longer befits current TV news. Do any of the other presenters who read the news on Sunday AM do it any differently than Moira did during the five minutes it lasts?????
Move on to better things, Moira - your management have belittled you by their public statements.
BN
But surely that is the point...there is no need to employ an extra newsreader, just to do some headlines, with nothing much else involved, when you can have someone doing that slot, that has either done Breakfast, or is going to do a later News 24 slot?!
BBC WORLD posted:
b) The argument used is entirely nonsense - he speaks of more versatile journalists being used to front the news, rather than just a "reader". The Sunday AM slot is purely that, i.e. reading the news. The short news slot does not contain any two way interviews or any other rolling breaking news scenarios, cited as the reasons why Moira Stuart's style no longer befits current TV news. Do any of the other presenters who
read
the news on Sunday AM do it any differently than Moira did during the five minutes it lasts?????
But surely that is the point...there is no need to employ an extra newsreader, just to do some headlines, with nothing much else involved, when you can have someone doing that slot, that has either done Breakfast, or is going to do a later News 24 slot?!
HO
It's hard really - I dont think Moira should be on those slots - but I think the headlines (which they are) should be read by Andrew/ Jon instead of a seperate newsreader - like on Breakfast! I would like to see Moira attempt a slot on News 24 (try it out), maybe the five o'clock. The problem with that is it was meant to be analyisis and in-depth but I can't tell the difference between that and Jon and Louise before (except an anchor who still feels like he's making it all up as he goes along to me! 
) Why not give Moira a try on that!
) Why not give Moira a try on that!