Sky were very slow off the mark this evening. They had the most awful pictures that they kept replaying for what seemed like half an hour.
As so often seems to happen, although they don’t have a Paris based correspondent Dominic Waghorn happened to be in Paris and is now in vision with smoke and fire dominating the background.
Sky's twitter feed was a bit poor tonight as well - reported stuff slowly and very cautiously( saying reports of the spire collapsing when footage of it happening was around.)
Sky were very slow off the mark this evening. They had the most awful pictures that they kept replaying for what seemed like half an hour.
As so often seems to happen, although they don’t have a Paris based correspondent Dominic Waghorn happened to be in Paris and is now in vision with smoke and fire dominating the background.
Not sure it was that bad. The first half hour was ok and they had as far as I could see the best angle of the spire on fire just before it collapsed.
Dominic W was on air as it collapsed and commentated / but it seemed the pictures were a minute or so behind, as the spire still stood.
After they lost those pictures it was pretty poor for 30-45 mins, but they have managed to get in vision reports.
Thought CNN were really great until Chris Cuomo came on.
Never would I thought that shouty Ros Atkins would be an improvement on the hockey sticks delivery of Geeta.
If Geeta wasn't thrown into a somewhat unfamiliar studio probably after waiting outside for several minutes unable to keep on top with developments quite possibly only expecting to do the headlines before throwing to Salford (and not even allowed to get to the desk before going on air) and expected to just get on with it she would almost certainly have been able to do a much better job.
Admittedly I didn't see much of Geeta's presenting but I think you're clutching at straws a bit there. She's presented in E before I'm sure and it's hardly that different from Studio C - it's just a newsroom behind her rather than a screen showing a London backdrop. And she'd have been sat at the desk for most of that half hour I'd assume especially given she wasn't on camera most of the time.
When GGM came on initially, I didn't realise it was her and thought they thrown a junior behind the desk with a lack of broadcasting experience, not a long term World stalwart who was well out of her comfort zone.
Interesting to hear Martin Bashir on BBC News, didn't realise he was their religion editor now.
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Reports now is the north bell tower might collapse at some point tonight. Implication is if it collapses they will be nothing to restore (So a new modern building would probably be built there.)
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When GGM came on initially, I didn't realise it was her and thought they thrown a junior behind the desk with a lack of broadcasting experience, not a long term World stalwart who was well out of her comfort zone.
Well I suppose the NC is out of her comfort zone as I've rarely seen her do any bulletins on the NC. Was Geeta due to be on the NC this evening?
Never would I thought that shouty Ros Atkins would be an improvement on the hockey sticks delivery of Geeta.
If Geeta wasn't thrown into a somewhat unfamiliar studio probably after waiting outside for several minutes unable to keep on top with developments quite possibly only expecting to do the headlines before throwing to Salford (and not even allowed to get to the desk before going on air) and expected to just get on with it she would almost certainly have been able to do a much better job.
Admittedly I didn't see much of Geeta's presenting but I think you're clutching at straws a bit there. She's presented in E before I'm sure and it's hardly that different from Studio C - it's just a newsroom behind her rather than a screen showing a London backdrop. And she'd have been sat at the desk for most of that half hour I'd assume especially given she wasn't on camera most of the time.
Something as simple as not having access to the preferred form of notebook or paper to write on or being logged into the studio computers is likely to make the coverage of developing breaking news significantly more difficult. Presumably, each presenter needs a few minutes to get the resources in the studio set up in the way that they personally find most useful for taking notes and gathering information that is coming into them through their earpiece and interviews and logging into the studio computers. Every other presenter change is usually accompanied by a lengthy weather forecast or a studio change giving the presenter to do this but the evening presenter usually has about 30 seconds after the end of the six before going on air so will usually have to do this during Sportsday. If the presenter unexpectedly doesn't get this opportunity these simple tasks are likely to take much longer and once behind on taking notes it becomes more and more difficult to catch up.
Fergal Keane appears to be in Paris, and the BBC have shown a brief piece-to-camera from him already. I expect he's already back at the bureau to file an emotive piece for the top of the Ten.
I caught a little bit of Channel 4 News earlier, and they led with the story and dropping into it between other packages - they appeared to be taking a pretty solid approach, without too much flapping.