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Sophie , the new Queen of BBC News Goodbye Moira!

(November 2004)

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TE
TELEVISION
BBC WORLD posted:
Look out for Monday 20th December, when Moira Stuart will co-present the Six!!!!!!!


Are you being serious ?
BN
Breakfast News
BBC WORLD posted:
Look out for Monday 20th December, when Moira Stuart will co-present the Six!!!!!!!


If true, is this to ensure she goes out in style?
SO
southwales
I dont think the bbc WOULD sink as low to have a non journalist reading the news on its most watched programme.... bless but we will lkeave Moira to her little news bulletins on breakfast and well keep Sophie for the professional programmes.


What next ... Ed the duck on Newsnight?

Come on lads...
LO
LONDON
Natasha did the Six a few weeks ago, and she is not a qualified Journalist. Moira has done the six before, during the virtual era and was very good. Its about time she gets to go back to where she belongs.
LO
LONDON
Natasha did the Six a few weeks ago, and she is not a qualified Journalist. Moira has done the six before, during the virtual era and was very good. Its about time she gets to go back to where she belongs.
BN
Breakfast News
LONDON posted:
Natasha did the Six a few weeks ago, and she is not a qualified Journalist.


Yes she is - you do not need to have filled a report to be a jounalist - Sian never. Do you really think the BBC would have signed a young person to read the news who is not a journalist?
LO
LONDON
I was not saying that Natasha is no good as a presenter, i was just stating that Natasha has no formal qualifications to say that she is a journalist, she has a degree in English. But she has had the training of a journalist. Much to the same extent as Moira.
BN
Breakfast News
LONDON posted:
I was not saying that Natasha is no good as a presenter,


I never said you did.

LONDON posted:
i was just stating that Natasha has no formal qualifications to say that she is a journalist, she has a degree in English. But she has had the training of a journalist .


Is that not condtadictory - she has had the training - but she isn't a jounrnalist??? - so you say
PE
Pete Founding member
southwales posted:
I dont think the bbc WOULD sink as low to have a non journalist reading the news on its most watched programme.... bless but we will lkeave Moira to her little news bulletins on breakfast and well keep Sophie for the professional programmes.

What next ... Ed the duck on Newsnight?

Come on lads...


*AIMS GUN*

Taking into account she copresented the news for years and has worked at BBC News for 20 years I'd certainly trust her to tell me the news. Plus why do they even need journalists presenting the six, it's not as if they have any good interviews on it.
LO
LONDON
Breakfast News posted:
LONDON posted:
I was not saying that Natasha is no good as a presenter,


I never said you did.

LONDON posted:
i was just stating that Natasha has no formal qualifications to say that she is a journalist, she has a degree in English. But she has had the training of a journalist .


Is that not condtadictory - she has had the training - but she isn't a jounrnalist??? - so you say


Well my point is Moira has had the same training. So you can't call Natasha a journalist and Moira not.
BN
Breakfast News
LONDON posted:
Breakfast News posted:
LONDON posted:
I was not saying that Natasha is no good as a presenter,


I never said you did.

LONDON posted:
i was just stating that Natasha has no formal qualifications to say that she is a journalist, she has a degree in English. But she has had the training of a journalist .


Is that not condtadictory - she has had the training - but she isn't a jounrnalist??? - so you say


Well my point is Moira has had the same training. So you can't call Natasha a journalist and Moira not.


Yes i can. Natasha is a journalist. Moira is not.
IT
itsrobert Founding member
Breakfast News posted:
LONDON posted:
Breakfast News posted:
LONDON posted:
I was not saying that Natasha is no good as a presenter,


I never said you did.

LONDON posted:
i was just stating that Natasha has no formal qualifications to say that she is a journalist, she has a degree in English. But she has had the training of a journalist .


Is that not condtadictory - she has had the training - but she isn't a jounrnalist??? - so you say


Well my point is Moira has had the same training. So you can't call Natasha a journalist and Moira not.


Yes i can. Natasha is a journalist. Moira is not.


How could anybody who has worked in broadcast news for the length of time Moira has not be classed as a journalist? Just because she hasn't got a journalism qualification doesn't mean she isn't a journalist. Many have told me that experience goes a long way in that field, not just academia. Moira has more experience than all of the current Six co-presenters put together!

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