10-09-2023, 11:13 AM
(09-09-2023, 10:09 PM)AaronTV Wrote: Clearly the clip in isolation is not fantastic, but I find the relentless whinging about the channel, in place of actually discussing the presentation, so tiresome.With respect, I think it’s you who is allowing their political views and support for GBNews to cloud your judgement.
Whilst watching the clips this week of the moment news of the Queen’s death was announced on the different channels, I was struck by the blip ITV News had when the moment came - Mary built up to reading the statement, only for it not to be on the autocue, and to not have a paper copy either. After quite a few seconds it looks to have been relayed to her by earpiece and then read to us. Sky News didn’t have the statement ready as they announced the Queen’s passing either.
My point, therefore, is that mistakes happen - even when it really matters. No live TV channel is immune from them.
With the added context two posts above yours, the clip doesn’t seem so bad - this was not the moment the news was broken to viewers, as had been suggested. I highly suspect you didn’t check the context before commenting this.
The anchor from the following hour was put on air 10 minutes early and had probably not heard the actual news update itself. With that in mind, you can certainly see how it happened, although it’s clearly not fantastic.
More broadly, however, GB News exists, whether you like it or not - these kinds of passive aggressive comments are not going to change that.
People are rightly criticising the segment as it’s reflective of a lack of preparedness and quality. Breaking news is the point when media is truly tested and exposed.
Criticism is both valid and essential for the success of GBNews. If people don’t flag up failings or are silenced and called ‘woke anti GBNews types’ for simply calling out poor output, the channel will NEVER push itself to improve and its team of producers will become lazy and accept the failings. In other words “it’s fine guys. Nobody noticed. Don’t worry about it”.
This is EXACTLY what happened at Sun News in Canada. The channel was designed to stir up controversy and opinion. Eventually viewers got bored and stopped watching. This included the critics. The result was that output was gradually stripped right back alongside resources and the channel eventually vanished without any fanfare or noise.
If you support GBNews, please don’t justify its problems!