US Shootings - Coverage

That is nonsense, of course. Sending someone to a scene means that they can organise interviews, shoot footage, get a sense of the feel and reaction to an event. I realise that not all remote anchorings operate in this way, but not all programmes are the same...

I meant for sending an anchor, all those roles can be done by the masses of reporters they have sent.

On The Day Today point, some of the American coverage almost makes you want to vomit. The "headlines" for World News Tonight on ABC was like a trailer for a blockbuster movie with huge graphics and booming voiceover "Massacre on Campus" along with strings music on Good Morning America while talking about victims. American TV seems to be senselessly turning this into a drama to boost ratings rather than reporting the real life tragedy. And the way journalists have reportedly been hassling students for stories via internet sites and camping outside the gunman's parents' house is sickening.

I'm sure Emily is organising interviews and shooting footage! They probably have a few producers and reporters out there...that's their job! Granted she may go out on a "earlier I spoke to students to gauge their reaction" type thing, but it really is style over substance and journalistically speaking does not add anything.

However from a TV production point of view it does add some 'gravitas' to the bulletin.

I agree. The start of yesterday's ABC World News, which I saw on News 24, was particularly awful: Target graphics and hundreds of melodramatic and pointless sentences:

"Monday morning classes became a Monday Morning massacre", or something like that. Hideous.

Emily Maitlis is now performing well, she has handled this afternoon's press conference coverage well and is now working imo as one of the site team rather than simply as a figurehead.

It'll be interesting to see how she handles things in the three evening bulletins, the Five, Six and Ten. It's inevitable bearing in mind today's further significant bloodshead in Baghdad that coverage of VTech will be much reduced in these 'flagship' bulletins.

Emily was great on the 6. Well delivered, thought out...I don't get what the crit is all about.

Emily and Sophie looked like sisters on the 1.

Emily has been great all day, which proves that last night's 10 was rushed and she'd have probably been on the scene a couple of hours before, not giving her time to gage the mood of the scene. I hope the BBC use her more often for anchoring on location.

Do any news channels take the NBC Nightly News? Or is either the BBC or SKY affiliated to NBC?

Curious to know as they are airing the 'multimedia package' sent by the gunman within the hour?

it airs on CNBC

Yep, at 23.30 UK time.

Doh!

Thanks Luke, CNBC is one of those channels you forget about. Thanks again!