[Jamesypoo]

Of all the things associated with this new modus operandi, the flipper and associated “reasoning” for it seemingly not being used are just perplexing.

If it’s apparently too small to read, why bother keeping the website address there? Surely by their own definition that’s too small as well?

It’s nonsense anyway because most people viewing the stream on their phone will be viewing in full screen, which is likely to be a similar sized screen to a TV from the viewers perspective as even though it’s smaller than a TV, you view it much closer to your face, as opposed to a larger TV screen across a room.

Size aside, people viewing the live streams on their mobile device will be doing so *via the website or app* and therefore surely don’t need pointing towards the website they are likely to be on?

The lack of active flipper, and the loss of the secondary line of story text just smack me as a result of cuts to behind the scenes staff (text editor?). See also the new “reporter hubs” in the newsroom or whatever they’re called along with the lack of anyone bar the presenter being in the studio, which I have a strong suspicion are a result of cuts to floor managers.

Call them inventive solutions to problems caused by cuts or imaginative thinking, but this doesn’t feel like the kind of innovation that would be happening were they not being forced to radically scale back operations in my view.