To be honest Sky have been rightly panned recently for some of their changes, but this Inside Iraq week has been excellent. It has been very watchable and at times compelling broadcasting, and i think for once Sky News deserve our applause here. Tim Marshall has again been excellent from Baghdad, and one has to be impressed by the amount of resources and journalists they have sent to the region. Well done Sky. (That said, the graphics and 15 min headline thing are still sh*t)
To be honest Sky have been rightly panned recently for some of their changes, but this Inside Iraq week has been excellent. It has been very watchable and at times compelling broadcasting, and i think for once Sky News deserve our applause here. Tim Marshall has again been excellent from Baghdad, and one has to be impressed by the amount of resources and journalists they have sent to the region. Well done Sky. (That said, the graphics and 15 min headline thing are still sh*t)
Seconded. It's been a very good and insightful week from Sky News (and Five News to an extent).
It's just a terrible shame that their designers have ruined it!
Surely now the most time anyone is going to stay on the channel is 15 mins - doesn't make sense.
nobody watches a news channel for any more than a few minutes at a time.
I think you actually meant to say
not many people
rather than
nobody
- I often watch News 24 from 4.30pm to 6pm, then dip in again in the evening for possibly an hour or so. I actually find it relaxing (and more entertaining than most of the pap on the other channels).
I'm also sure that lots of people just have it on in the background for most of the day if working.
To be honest Sky have been rightly panned recently for some of their changes, but this Inside Iraq week has been excellent. It has been very watchable and at times compelling broadcasting, and i think for once Sky News deserve our applause here. Tim Marshall has again been excellent from Baghdad, and one has to be impressed by the amount of resources and journalists they have sent to the region. Well done Sky. (That said, the graphics and 15 min headline thing are still sh*t)
Seconded. It's been a very good and insightful week from Sky News (and Five News to an extent).
It's just a terrible shame that their designers have ruined it!
Thirded (!?). That Inside Iraq DOG they've been using, featuring the map of Iraq in red looks like something off a cheap Iraqi TV channel.
this Inside Iraq week has been excellent. It has been very watchable and at times compelling broadcasting
Its good to hear Sky News doing something well, but I have avoided it this week, as I am totally sick and tired of Iraq, the War on Iraq, Muslims, Muslim, Terrorists, "home-Grown" terror suspects, foiled plots, etc etc etc
Please excuse me if I use slightly strong words to describe my shock regarding the latest editorial string “Inside Iraq” on Sky News. I have been a bit critical of the lay-out changes in the past and I think my opinion was vindicated by the fact that time and date now spin at the same rate as the spinny logo thingie.
But, this morning, I saw a new weather graphic thingie in the bottom right-hand corner – where did that come from? Fox started that about 5 years ago! If you are going to do what they did you try and be a little more creative about it.
I now think there should be two Sky News channels.
Sky News - A news channel which brings you the news using cameras – sound – presenters and reporters telling a worthy story and the odd name graphic …… That’s all!
ISkyNews - A news channel which brings you the news using - snappy tabloid pictures and sound-bites which you are too distracted to watch because you are watching a ticker (which could have garish colours), the logo of the news channel spinning for no reason and the time and date being updated every 15 seconds.
BREAKING NEWS THE: TIME HAS CHANGED – AND THE DATE IS STILL THE SAME.
And now, for no extra cost – you don’t have to pay attention to the news for 12 minutes for the weather forecast to arrive, you can be distracted from the news to watch out for weather information! And, saying that, what is this information? Is it the weather now, is it the weather in 2 hours time, is it the weather in 6 hours time??
When I want to see a weather forecast for where I live - Ireland – I watch Lisa or Francis. It’s another bloody gimmick!!
Done with that rant.
Onto the next.
Inside Iraq.
You guys over in the UK are being force fed some very serious propaganda at the moment.
While the perception outside the UK usually is that the British Forces have been professional and, for the large part, respectful of those people whose country they were invading - they were still involved in a war (invasion) run by Bush and the US army, against the wishes of NATO, the UN and the EU, actually illegal under international law – and more about petrol, less a noble cause. A war/invasion which is actually failing guys!!
The technical/operations side seems to be working well - cameras - sound - lights - uplinks - graphics.
But, listen to the words which have been used and the message being broadcast please.
“Biased” would be an understatement!