How come Sky News is covering the SkySports sexism story so much this evening. They've even dragged up further off camera footage where Gray & Keys are discussing the female assistant referee. I thought Sky would have tried to bury this story, but Sky News appear to be putting the boot in!
How come Sky News is covering the SkySports sexism story so much this evening. They've even dragged up further off camera footage where Gray & Keys are discussing the female assistant referee. I thought Sky would have tried to bury this story, but Sky News appear to be putting the boot in!
I was quite surprised that Sky News are devoting a lot of time to this story, you'd think this not being their area to report on their own problems in such a matter. Although to no surprise at all Sky Sports (News, .com and the Apps) haven't touched this story at all.
Sky are lucky that this weekend is an FA Cup weekend, so there'll be no football back on until the end of next weekend.
How come Sky News is covering the SkySports sexism story so much this evening. They've even dragged up further off camera footage where Gray & Keys are discussing the female assistant referee. I thought Sky would have tried to bury this story, but Sky News appear to be putting the boot in!
It's very odd, isn't it. I wonder who leaked the audio to the Daily Mail in the first place. The rehearsal footage seems to have been quite easy for Sky News to get hold of too. I wonder if that was via Sky Sports or from another source. Covering the story might be a good thing for Sky News as it could be used to show that they are not biased and add to their credibility (see also the News of the World phone hacking story) but I doubt Sky Sports would benefit from it at all.
The rehearsal footage seems to have been quite easy for Sky News to get hold of too. I wonder if that was via Sky Sports or from another source.
I would imagine the footage was taken from Sky News itself.. Usually on Saturday Live they go live to the first game and the pitchside reporter interviews the co-commentator for the game, which is usually Alan Smith..
BBC News has just used this footage with Sky News branding in Dan Roan's report..
The rehearsal footage seems to have been quite easy for Sky News to get hold of too. I wonder if that was via Sky Sports or from another source.
I would imagine the footage was taken from Sky News itself.. Usually on Saturday Live they go live to the first game and the pitchside reporter interviews the co-commentator for the game, which is usually Alan Smith..
Is it normal procedure to record and keep this unbroadcast footage for two days?
BBC News has just used this footage with Sky News branding in Dan Roan's report..
I've not heard anyone put a ridiculous conspiracy theory forward yet, so let me try. This footage was leaked to the Daily Mail by Sky/Rupert Murdoch himself (who is in the country at the moment, I believe) to covered up a bigger story, quite possibley to do with phone hacking.
I suppose from Sky News' point of view it would have looked very bad had it emerged that they knew about the recorded footage of Gray's remarks in Andy Burton's interview with him and not aired it
How come Sky News is covering the SkySports sexism story so much this evening. They've even dragged up further off camera footage where Gray & Keys are discussing the female assistant referee. I thought Sky would have tried to bury this story, but Sky News appear to be putting the boot in!
Not unusal at all. If a news organisation is to have any credibility at all, it has to report the news regardless of how it reflects on their parent organisation.
The rehearsal footage seems to have been quite easy for Sky News to get hold of too. I wonder if that was via Sky Sports or from another source.
I would imagine the footage was taken from Sky News itself.. Usually on Saturday Live they go live to the first game and the pitchside reporter interviews the co-commentator for the game, which is usually Alan Smith..
Is it normal procedure to record and keep this unbroadcast footage for two days?
BBC News has just used this footage with Sky News branding in Dan Roan's report..
I've not heard anyone put a ridiculous conspiracy theory forward yet, so let me try. This footage was leaked to the Daily Mail by Sky/Rupert Murdoch himself (who is in the country at the moment, I believe) to covered up a bigger story, quite possibley to do with phone hacking.
Don't be ridiculous David. Sky have given the phone hacking story every bit of coverage it deserves. It was discussed on Murnaghan yesterday and had been their lead story all weekend. When Coulson's resignation broke Sky gave it wall-to-wall coverage on what was an already busy news day so any conspiracy theories about Murdoch are simply untrue.
SOME puzzling editorial choices have been afoot at Sky News this week.
On Sunday, Gordon Brown’s disclosure that he asked the police to look into whether his phone was hacked by the News of the World topped its agenda all day. And yesterday the attack of foot-in-mouth disease that afflicted Sky Sports’ Andy Gray and Richard Keys – during which they saw fit to question whether a female referee’s assistant might need the intricacies of the offside rule pointing out to her – also headed the news list (at least until the Moscow airport bombing knocked it from the airwaves).
The interesting point about these stories is that they both involve companies controlled by media mogul Rupert Murdoch, who owns the News of the World and covets 61 per cent of the chunk of Sky that isn’t already in his clutches.
So why has Sky News turned on its brethren with such gusto? Could it be that the channel wants to prove just how impartial it is, and not at all a threat to media plurality?
Not so says Sky News editor Chris Birkett: “These are the stories of the day. We’ve covered the phone hacking scandal from day one. We play it straight.”
Much better map of land now, a vast improvement on the cold map they have been using. From the forecast just now, it looked like the newswall was being used - I could see the panels on the UK-wide view.
Maybe we'll be seeing the Sunrise forecasts from the newswall later this week?
Yes much better we don't just have those blobs of colour moving over the country now it actually looks like rain, I thought those panels were just an effect they had added on top of the map?
Sky are seeking to hold a Leaders Debate during the upcoming election campaign in the Republic of Ireland. While Sky News have a strong following in Ireland I am not sure Adam Boulton is a strong enough authority on Irish politics to chair a debate and indeed with the demise of Sky News Ireland many years ago it is questionable whether it would make sense for Irish political leaders to appear on a debate on a foreign tv station.
Sky are seeking to hold a Leaders Debate during the upcoming election campaign in the Republic of Ireland. While Sky News have a strong following in Ireland I am not sure Adam Boulton is a strong enough authority on Irish politics to chair a debate and indeed with the demise of Sky News Ireland many years ago it is questionable whether it would make sense for Irish political leaders to appear on a debate on a foreign tv station.
It depends on his role. I would assume Vincent Browne from TV3 would like to interrogate each of the leaders and question them vigorously whereas if Adam's leaders debate was like his one in Bristol where he played the 'moderator' role he would be suitable in just asking pre-registered questions.
