23-04-2023, 04:53 PM
(23-04-2023, 04:31 PM)LDN Wrote: With the emergency alert going off a minute early, BBC News (UK) was still in the middle of a guest interview. The alert klaxons could clearly be heard in the background as the guest waffled on, and the presenter evidently wasn't sure whether or not to interrupt for what seemed like a very long time. He eventually did so, precisely as the alert ended.Plus this resource-intensive UK output on a UK story featured extensive contributions from guests in…Geneva and New York.
And if that weren't enough, then comes the torture of members of the public being asked, at length, for their vacuous thoughts and reactions regarding this thrilling event, because the new BBC News loves opinions more than ever! More time on opinions means less time and money wasted on all that dreary, expensive journalism!
Lord (Reith), give me strength.
Have seen a fair bit of the Channel this weekend and it’s still so disjointed and poorly thought out with a focus on doing fewer stories worse. Yesterday most of the afternoon was spent trained on the same view of the Khartoum skyline with not much to see or say, today we had the heavily padded emergency alert stream with embarrassingly little to see or say - and when they did cover the only newsline to emerge (that a lot of people didn’t get the alert even though they should have done) they quickly moved on.
There’s still no attention being paid to the little details either - as someone else pointed out, the phone numbers for the Nicky Campbell phone-in were rotating continuously on the flipper during the Laura Kuenssberg simulcast.
It’s just all so slapdash.