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I'm sorry but that's bullsh!t- try getting caught in an explosion before making grandiose statements about how noble you would be..
Erm, sorry, she is a reporter. Her job is to report the news. She works for an international news organisation.
Do you not think, therefore, that she might've phoned up and mentioned that a bloody great bomb had gone off in her hotel relatively swiftly (given this is her job, and she is on standby 24/7/365) after the event, rather than not getting on air for about half an hour after the event.
It's not noble, it's what she's employed to do. If I were a BBC News hack, and knew I had a reporter available there and then who witnessed the incident I'd rather expect them to tell me about it ASAP, not in half an hour's time when Reuters have already done it for me.
If she didn't have the technology to do so, fair enough, but I imagine she carries a phone with her everywhere. She is an excellent reporter generally, from what I have seen of her in Iraq, but it does rather bring into question the system of production at the BBC when they have a correspondent witnessing an event and yet still rely on a wire service to report it.
I've just been talking to someone who knows. Caroline Hawley was on leave (from Baghdad!). She was in one of the public areas of the hotel, and her mobile was (and probably still is) in her room. You can't humanely have a go at her for pulling herself together, checking the people she was with were fine, then trying to find out a little of what happened before finding someone else's phone and filing. And it has to be said that if you were at the scene of one of these explosions you couldn't automatically assume it was a bomb (albeit easily the most likely). There doesn't seem to have been too much structural damage to the hotels, and I believe there were some reports of a "gas explosion".
Caroline though - poor thing - Lord only knows how her nerves are. She is a very brave lady!
I'm with Cat on this. She should have been on the phone to London quicker. Reporters who work in that region are the sort of people who often put 'the story' ahead of their own personal safety. Why the hell did she leave her mobile in her room? I bet she is as annoyed as anyone and will make sure she has a mobile on her at all times she's in the region from now on.
If John Simpson had been in that hotel, he'd have been live on air within minutes. Remember when he was bombed by the US in Iraq? I remember listening to Radio 4 when he barged on to the air with the shocking news. That's what makes a great reporter.
(Sorry, this is nothing to do with the Sky thread but I was just continuing the discussion)
w12 posted:
cat posted:
Dunedin posted:
I'm sorry but that's bullsh!t- try getting caught in an explosion before making grandiose statements about how noble you would be..
Erm, sorry, she is a reporter. Her job is to report the news. She works for an international news organisation.
Do you not think, therefore, that she might've phoned up and mentioned that a bloody great bomb had gone off in her hotel relatively swiftly (given this is her job, and she is on standby 24/7/365) after the event, rather than not getting on air for about half an hour after the event.
It's not noble, it's what she's employed to do. If I were a BBC News hack, and knew I had a reporter available there and then who witnessed the incident I'd rather expect them to tell me about it ASAP, not in half an hour's time when Reuters have already done it for me.
If she didn't have the technology to do so, fair enough, but I imagine she carries a phone with her everywhere. She is an excellent reporter generally, from what I have seen of her in Iraq, but it does rather bring into question the system of production at the BBC when they have a correspondent witnessing an event and yet still rely on a wire service to report it.
I've just been talking to someone who knows. Caroline Hawley was on leave (from Baghdad!). She was in one of the public areas of the hotel, and her mobile was (and probably still is) in her room. You can't humanely have a go at her for pulling herself together, checking the people she was with were fine, then trying to find out a little of what happened before finding someone else's phone and filing. And it has to be said that if you were at the scene of one of these explosions you couldn't automatically assume it was a bomb (albeit easily the most likely). There doesn't seem to have been too much structural damage to the hotels, and I believe there were some reports of a "gas explosion".
Caroline though - poor thing - Lord only knows how her nerves are. She is a very brave lady!
I'm with Cat on this. She should have been on the phone to London quicker. Reporters who work in that region are the sort of people who often put 'the story' ahead of their own personal safety. Why the hell did she leave her mobile in her room? I bet she is as annoyed as anyone and will make sure she has a mobile on her at all times she's in the region from now on.
If John Simpson had been in that hotel, he'd have been live on air within minutes. Remember when he was bombed by the US in Iraq? I remember listening to Radio 4 when he barged on to the air with the shocking news. That's what makes a great reporter.
(Sorry, this is nothing to do with the Sky thread but I was just continuing the discussion)
