On Laura Kuenssberg, part of the problem is that Laura seems to treat Twitter as akin to a personal notepad of thoughts. A lot of the material that she tweets does not end up in broadcast reports. Laura also often doesn't help herself with poor drafting of tweets.
The BBC really should insist that the same standards should be applied to individual tweets as are for broadcast reports and on the same standards of writing as would be required when writing for BBC News Online.
I usually watch BBC on my main TV and keep across other coverage on my iPad
I think it's fair to also say that social media will play a big part in my election coverage too. The usual suspects such as the BBC, but other accounts, such as Britain Elects on Twitter are excellent at posting local constituency results.
Surprised to see no mention on here of Peston and Kuenssenberg's big faux pas yesterday about the protestors. I think it's important to try and give journalists the benefit of the doubt where you can but they don't come out of brilliantly. Especially Peston passing off such a serious allegation as fact based on what 2 Tory sources told him - rather than getting an independent source.
I do feel ITV made a mistake going with Peston as political editor over the brilliant Chris Ship. A case of going after the bigger name rather than the better reporter at least in my views.
Whilst that wasn't great, it doesn't exactly help, and it is rather disturbing, when the leader of the Labour Party posts a tweet implying that this means *all media* is biased against him, for a story that was retracted within an hour.
I've always switched between channels to see how presentation goes -sometimes Sky gets something a little quicker than the BBC, other times the BBC are a bit ahead or more accurate. But also depends who is on during each slot - inevitably one of them will have an MP/pundit you simply can't stand for whatever reason or it's that quiet portion between counts so it's more fun to see how each presenting team manages to fill for time.
I will say in the past I've always found I go between BBC and Sky rather than stop by ITV's coverage. I'm a sucker for the VR House of Commons, virtual floor maps and poll graphs. But the ITV Political team have been making steps towards more infographs as of late, so maybe their coverage will stand out a bit more this year?
I usually watch BBC on my main TV and keep across other coverage on my iPad
if you don't have at least a second telly set up in your living room for an election night are you even a real TV Forumer?
I had three tellies set up NYE 1992. One on TVS, another on Thames, and a third showing Oracle P100 which I recorded with a Video 8 camera shooting the screen.
Think for the first time I'll be watching coverage on Sky One with Russell Howard and then the Sky News simulcast from 11.
Considering we're all here because we have some interest in presentation do any of us really stick with just the one broadcaster throughout the night. Yes, we probably lean towards one but with the length of the broadcasts there are plenty of opportunities to get a flavour of what all three of the main broadcasters are doing.
Of course I'll flick over to BBC1 and will watch the intro and exit poll result. Can't say I've watched an ITV election programme in years.
I can't remember what year it was, but there was a behind the scenes show that Sky had online which was more interesting than Boulton or Dimbleby.
Yes, with Martin Stanfield IIRC. I'd guess 2015 if I had to put a date on it, but they've all kind of blended into one now.
I did have a 2 TV situation set up for the last election, both responded to the same remote though, so it got a bit complicated when I wanted to change channels.
Sadly I’ll have 0 TV’s this year due to the terrible timing, it clashes with the works Christmas party.
