Ooops, they left the tower on!
No 'Sadam Captured' round globe - just |B|B|C| News - globe
did
start spinning from Iraq
Generic tower was awful - globe didn't spin at all and didn't line up with N24 astons
Why the URL not clock - IMO all BBC News programmes should carry clocks
Glad they left the N24 tower on for the joint with One - good promo!
I hate it when they completely forget about other news at times like these! There is other news! USE THE TICKER for other stories, N24!
The BBC World ticker has been on since about 11am. The orange box on the left has been alternating from Latest/Headlines/Coming Up/Saddam (but not necessarily in that order). Talking about tickers on Fox News I saw that while someone was berating the French Govt for its former relationship with Saddam and the Ba'ath Party, Jacques Chirac was spelt Chiraq.
OK, ladies and gentlemen, it's happened-he's been captured-Praise the Lord, Hallelujah and all that-now can we PLEASE get back to normal programmes, or is this going to be a situation like the war-programmes disrupted! At least the vast majority CARED about the war!
Indeed, this is suffering from 'Queen Mother's Death' syndrome a bit. It's a big story, so the broadcasters want to devote more or less all their air time to it, but it's also a concise story; Saddam's been captured and is being held at an undisclosed location. There's not really anything more to say than that for the time being, and most likely will not be anything more to say for several days. And the meat of the story - his trial and inevitable execution, could be months away.
This is a stop-start story, not an unfolding one. Therefore, there is no need to continually cover it like this when all the news channels are doing nothing more than drag on person after person to give their opinions. It does of course deserve to lead the news, but it doesn't deserve to *be* the news at the expense of everything else which is largely how it's being treated. But of course any broadcaster not doing that would be accused of not treating the story with importance.
Couldn't the US military have arranged to give the broadcasters a direct feed of the Saddam footage (or even a copy of the tapes after). Surely it would be better than close up camera shots of plasma's.
If they'd had a direct feed they could have mixed all the maps shown in with speakers as the spoke about it. We had the slightly strange press conference with the speaker talking about locations we couldn't see.
Is it usual or ever done to give direct feeds at news conferences like this. A big multi distributions panel out the back that everyone could plug into.
Even now we have no better quality pictures than the news conference ones.
OK, ladies and gentlemen, it's happened-he's been captured-Praise the Lord, Hallelujah and all that-now can we PLEASE get back to normal programmes, or is this going to be a situation like the war-programmes disrupted! At least the vast majority CARED about the war!
Indeed, this is suffering from 'Queen Mother's Death' syndrome a bit. It's a big story, so the broadcasters want to devote more or less all their air time to it, but it's also a concise story; Saddam's been captured and is being held at an undisclosed location. There's not really anything more to say than that for the time being, and most likely will not be anything more to say for several days. And the meat of the story - his trial and inevitable execution, could be months away.
This is a stop-start story, not an unfolding one. Therefore, there is no need to continually cover it like this when all the news channels are doing nothing more than drag on person after person to give their opinions. It does of course deserve to lead the news, but it doesn't deserve to *be* the news at the expense of everything else which is largely how it's being treated. But of course any broadcaster not doing that would be accused of not treating the story with importance.
There's sod all else going on today, and they've collared the one guy who has been the thorn in the American/Brit's side for the past decade. Of course it's big news, and of course it should be on continually.
Would you like to suggest some other news that's going on today that you think is more worthy?
True, but while I can see this dominating News 24, CNN, Fox News-even the ITV News channel- for days (and it deserves to) my original point actually was I hope-and now I don't think it will- dominate the terrestrial channels e.g. 3-4 BBC News Specials per day etc. Hope I've made things a bit clear (To MYSELF as much as anyone else!)
Ooops, they left the tower on!