31-05-2024, 01:47 PM
(31-05-2024, 01:41 PM)Moz Wrote: He was, as were the other guests - but my point was this shows the perils of a panel based news programme. If a major story breaks of which the panel have no knowledge, they’re useless. Last night they were lucky.
The news the verdict was coming in emerged about 45 minutes before the broadcast went on air. I’m not sure how you think they would have covered it differently in the old format - they got a North America correspondent on for several minutes and asked a political strategist about how he’d deal with the political fall out if he were working for Trump. They had a correspondent in studio providing analysis. I really don’t see what else they could have done when the whole running order went out at short notice?