Sky News: Presentation Discussion

Yes this music drove me mad as well. It only appears now at the end of each hour for the weather. But what I meant is that there is no summary of news business and sports anymore and I think this is important.
Or another solution to this problem could have been, that they use a more varied music bed ,like in 2006.

I think they should use GLITS as the breakfiller backing music.

Excuse me, can you please take this topic seriously?

Yes, dosxuk you are really cheapening the valuable input brought to the the thread by phil94.

The summary of news and sport was pitiful, and is hardly a major loss. Look at the video above, 2 lines on a news story is hardly giving you indepth coverage...

By the way, for those with access to the Sky News for iPad app, you can watch the international stream of Sky News HD every evening from about 10pm- which means you can see the new breakfiller for yourself

The Sky News virtual set 'extensions'/backdrops, the gallery and newsroom images, along with the graphical design for the Sky News Leaders Debate, were created by designer who created the fictional landscape to replace Daybreak's purple abstract animation.

Who?

Laurie Griffiths

I guess this comment was inevitable and we need to be very careful not to cross the fine line......

.....Sky News covering the "New Addington" story end to end this evening, as I'm sure many other news organisations are. But Sky is the only one I have access to at the moment.

In the case of Sky, it's the excellent and well experienced Anna Jones in the seat tonight. There seems to be an awful lot of compassion, speculation and newsroom grief about the unfolding events.

Now, you and I, as Joe Public, may be entitled to say so. It's a terrible tragedy and a very seriously sad story. It's human nature to be touched by the ingredients of this unfolding story.

But Anna is overly indulgent in the outpouring of sorrow and grief for the family and the tragedy surrounding them. In some cases, almost flirting with the electric fence that is "impartiality".

What happened to the days when the newsreader would just deliver the story, devoid of emotion as far as possible, and let the viewer make up his own mind.

Don't perceive me as a thoughtless ogre. But, the coverage I've just watched was almost one sided.

But what other side are you looking for? A side where the newsreader doesn't look bothered or shows virtually no emotion about a news-story that we all know is a sad and emotional one? There is also a human element involved as well which, in my opinion (in this story), makes it better, rather than a stern-faced presenter saying that Tia Sharpe's body has been found.

Your first sentence just proves that you've completely missed the point.

I am not looking for, nor expecting, any "side". News delivery is about impartiality. It's up to you and me and the everyday guy in the street to get emotional about it. Not the news presenter. He or she should be totally impartial.

Impartial for the news bulletins, certainly, as there's little chance to dwell and it'll get replaced with another story after a piece of VT.
For rolling news: Maybe not, bearing in mind there's all this time to fill and more opportunity/padding to explore a story from every angle under the sun, get views of residents, visitors, next door's dog, etc and if you're going to do that, emotion is inevitable if you've been speaking the story for the last two and a half hours.