Sky News: Presentation Discussion

My complaints of bias, are not necessarily constant on the channel's coverage, and not necessarily personal on the part of the presenter. It's The questions prompted over the earpiece, or suggestions from the editors on how to give context to coverage.

I like Kay Burley and Adam Boulton, but during this election they have behaved in a poor fashion with regards to impartiality and appropriate questions for appropriate spokespeople. This could be personal for them, or them being directed to do what they have.

Also NewsCorp have made it clear they want to remove impartiality regulations on television news, and want a full controlling position in the boardroom of BSkyB.

Anna Botting taking over now.

He has no trouble in discussing the possibility of the Tories being in power with the BBC or ITV. It's only when Boulton interviews him he can't get such an admission out of him.


That's no bloody excuse though - leading presenters, political editors and reporters on all channels have been working from dawn to dusk in recent days and even weeks and no one else is acting like Adam Boulton.

This might tip him over the edge but Boulton and Brown seem to be pretty much two peas in a pod. Both may know their stuff and be able to get the job done, but neither are really presentable to the public and both are only ever one step away from a gaffe when their tempers boils over.

What separates them though is Brown knows when to quit - Boulton doesn't! If he cared for the reputation of Sky News as much as Brown cares for the Labour party he'd be handing in his resignation today too.

So self important, thinking his own actions deserve airtime amidst such significant developments.

Well Boulton is trending above Brown on Twitter.

Good to see ex Labour Home Secretary John Reid, actually making the same points that Adam was making to Campbell and later on Lord Faulkener.

Boulton/Campbell aside I think Sky have been superb today and the HD continues to impress me greatly.

Them side panels look so pointless though - I bet they'll be quietly dropped sooner or later.

I bet they're not!!

I have a 40inch Samsung TV in a pretty small living room and I cant read the side panels. The font is way too small. The scrolling news/Breaking news text is readable.

Agreed. The stats about the deficit across the Eurozone and the relative penis lengths of the party leaders is all very interesting, but I can't see them wanting to keep spending the effort on sourcing and designing content which is so peripheral to their output for too long.

On a totally unrelated point, this is a bit dry, but is there perhaps a slight bug in the logic for the current graphics set? It seems that instantiating a name strap forces the whole 'BREAKING NEWS' sequence to play out. When I'm only watching it muted out the corner of one eye, it makes a conversation between three people seem implausibly dramatic.

I don't wish to be flippant, but it's probably one of three things:-

You're sitting too far from the screen - HD is best viewed from 2 x screen size, so for you about 6'6".

Your set up is incorrect, picture settings/connected by SCART and not HDMI.

Your eyesight.