20-02-2024, 01:25 PM
The idea you can give the Prime Minister 3 or so minutes to make claims about and to tear into the leader of the opposition without a challenge from the audience or the host doesn’t sit right.
The audience weren’t providing balance, because they were just asking questions. They should have had an opportunity to respond or let the host make one two counters to what the PM had said each time.
Apart from the vaccine chaps and the lady asking about LGBTQ+ issues it was a friendly audience because even though they might not have been voting for Sunak they were all largely on board with with the stated aims of the PM.
With the same method of audience selection the leader of the opposition would likely automatically get a much more hostile audience so it’s difficult to suggest they could balance it by offering him a People’s Forum.
Now you can say it was representative of those undecided voters who applied in the area. You can even interpret that it was within Ofcom rules. I’m not that bothered. It just made for pretty rubbish TV.
Bringing it back to presentation and to be fair the production values were good though.
The audience weren’t providing balance, because they were just asking questions. They should have had an opportunity to respond or let the host make one two counters to what the PM had said each time.
Apart from the vaccine chaps and the lady asking about LGBTQ+ issues it was a friendly audience because even though they might not have been voting for Sunak they were all largely on board with with the stated aims of the PM.
With the same method of audience selection the leader of the opposition would likely automatically get a much more hostile audience so it’s difficult to suggest they could balance it by offering him a People’s Forum.
Now you can say it was representative of those undecided voters who applied in the area. You can even interpret that it was within Ofcom rules. I’m not that bothered. It just made for pretty rubbish TV.
Bringing it back to presentation and to be fair the production values were good though.