Wow, lucky NBC, what an exclusive. Although accordign to Emily on Newsnight the other broadcasters are complaining to the auhorities about the fact that the material hasn't been pooled
I've just been watching the opening moments of NBC Nightly News via their website. Thoroughly chilling stuff. The lad was clearly very very ill. Has it been shown on any channel in the UK yet apart from CNBC? BBC News 24 have done a two way with Washington and mentioned via their ticker that the footage has been shown, but has now actually moved on to other stories.
On a completely presentation related point, I am totally impressed with the quality of NBC's webstream - and it looks like they produce NN in HD...
I was watching the second half of NBC NN on my slingbox, and they had the opening of itv and c4 news to show the international reaction. They went hd about 3 weeks ago.
Yep - NBC Nighly News has joined NBC's Today and ABC's Good Morning America and is now shot partially in HD.
The NBC NN Studio and some live shots from Washington are HD. Field reports and lives from elsewhere are still shot 4:3 SD and upconverted with pillars added left and right.
Both ABC's GMA and NBC's Nightly News have had a lot of criticism about the quality of their HD - as it looks like the main close-ups of their presenters are being "softened" or "filtered" to flatter the presenters. There is a suggestion that there are "HD clauses" in some presenters contracts...
Nice lecture by Matt Frei on why the media were right (not just the BBC) to show the 'multimedia manifesto' (?) and the continuing coverage. Hardly a neutral tone and stance taken, almost had a go at the students that didn't want it shown!
Nice lecture by Matt Frei on why the media were right (not just the BBC) to show the 'multimedia manifesto' (?) and the continuing coverage. Hardly a neutral tone and stance taken, almost had a go at the students that didn't want it shown!
The self importance and arrogance of the media regrettably knows no bounds.
Perhaps Mr Frei and all his contemporaries would like to clear off now, and leave that poor community alone.
N24's ticker says many US networks have now agreed to cut back the amount of footage they are showing from the "multimedia manifesto". This after getting in almost 24 hours of saturation coverage. Can you say PR stunt?
I've been watching Fox quite a bit the last few days and quite honestly have never laughed so much in my life. It really is a spoof of itself at times.
The dramatic violin music over "lets remember now the victims" and photos of the people who got shot was my favourite moment.
At first I thought it was a wee bit irresponsible of the networks to screen this "murder manifesto" as it may serve to 'glorify' the killer and encourage copycats to come out of the woodwork, but after having seen it and realised what an utter knob he sounds like with his crap Arnold Schwarzenegger impression, it's probably unlikely any other borderline nutjobs out there would adopt him as a role model.
Whether NBC used the same rationale in their decision to release the footage I'm not sure.
I've been watching Fox quite a bit the last few days and quite honestly have never laughed so much in my life. It really is a spoof of itself at times.
The dramatic violin music over "lets remember now the victims" and photos of the people who got shot was my favourite moment.
And what it makes it even worse is that 170 odd people died the other day in Iraq and it only got a few minutes of airtime.
Not so much irresponsible as unjustified? The only reason it ran was because it was a bit of 'oo have you seen this' + NBC wanted a tagged photo the world over. All this insight and evidence crap is such an appalling excuse for some cheap entertainment.
I did smile though at one point when, as the earnest voice-over whittered on about media intrusion (from the scene), the camera panned signs of 'media -- go away!'.