sorry,I know I'm new here but shouldn't we be chatting about the current Scotland Today?! while I agree Shereen was great, I don't think we should lose sight of how fantastic it is now. Really stylish with a great presenting team of John and Heather.
sorry,I know I'm new here but shouldn't we be chatting about the current Scotland Today?! while I agree Shereen was great, I don't think we should lose sight of how fantastic it is now. Really stylish with a great presenting team of John and Heather.
I have to admit, if you look at ST in January - big orange desk, cramped studio with three different colour schemes, and look at it now with a stylish set compare it with BBC One and you wouldn't ahve a clue what programme was the scottish national news. The set and content (most of the time) is really top notch.
As much as I like the Scotland Today set, I do think that those blue walls look like a CSO screen that's broken. But apart from that, I think the set does look quite trendy and fresh.
As much as I like the Scotland Today set, I do think that those blue walls look like a CSO screen that's broken. But apart from that, I think the set does look quite trendy and fresh.
Anybody else agree?
The bluw would be nice toned down a tad, liek NT's
Yikes - what happened to Scotland Today? It's awful today. It led off on a UK story, albeit with a good local angle.
However a story about pensioners travelling down to London to protest about pension problems (another UK story with tenuous local angle), a story about neds working in youth groups that could have come straight from the press release, and an awful 'in-depth' look at the tourist industry (do they want to be Reporting Scotland or something?)
Is it a quiet news day or has there been a policy change? Or are the recent cuts starting to hit the output?
Friday's Scotland Today was a typical example of a programme with not enough staff and not enough experienced staff either. On a quiet news day they should be able to pull an investigative story out of the bag with a big shocking lead. This is what they would have done a few years ago and if you watch local news in the US it's what the big markets do every day (it's worth remembering that based on the US market system Scotland Today is the equivalent sized market to Washington DC!!!)
STV needs to address a profound problem. They have paid off too many experienced members of staff. The solution is not to now hire lots of low paid journos - get in one or two experienced people and fix the problem!
I think there are quite a few young faces but there are still some very experienced journalists as well - David Cowan, Bernard Ponsonby, Mike Edwards, Michael Crow, Suzy Mair. They might have lost a few old faces but I think it's fresher and more stylish and still is MILES better than Reporting Scotland. In studio, the onscreen partnership is better, John and Heather are much better together and warmer than Jackie and David.
I think there are quite a few young faces but there are still some very experienced journalists as well - David Cowan, Bernard Ponsonby, Mike Edwards, Michael Crow, Suzy Mair. They might have lost a few old faces but I think it's fresher and more stylish and still is MILES better than Reporting Scotland. In studio, the onscreen partnership is better, John and Heather are much better together and warmer than Jackie and David.
I agree. To be fair to Scotland Today, it is normally 100 times better than Reporting Scotland despite having a millionth of the budget. Reporting Scotland is the one that normally relies on Scottish Executive press releases and does its best to box-tick the regions instead of concentrating on what is the best story. I was just disappointed to see STV struggling this particular day, and I suppose it's the inevitable consequence of so many cutbacks. But to be fair the appearance of new younger faces has generally been a boost to the programme. I'd rather have someone young and enthusiastic, who clearly has wanted to do this forever and still has some enthusiasm, over someone who's been on the box forever and gives the impression of being bored.
I think there are quite a few young faces but there are still some very experienced journalists as well - David Cowan, Bernard Ponsonby, Mike Edwards, Michael Crow, Suzy Mair. They might have lost a few old faces but I think it's fresher and more stylish and still is MILES better than Reporting Scotland. In studio, the onscreen partnership is better, John and Heather are much better together and warmer than Jackie and David.
I rate the above reporters at stv.
Although, I would say that all these rumours about Jackie Bird are really unfair and must be very hurtful to her. She seems a lovely woman and a consumate professional.
The sooner the press leave her alone the better. However, I aint a fan of David Robertson.
