[Kojak]

Plus this resource-intensive UK output on a UK story featured extensive contributions from guests in…Geneva and New York.

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.

It’s dire, isn’t it? I did half-jokingly muse earlier on in the thread about there being some sort of sabotage going on. You could easily believe it from what we’ve been subjected to over the last few weeks. In reality, I suppose it’s that there is that little money left that there are no longer enough people to oversee things like the flipper. All these things - which are small individually, but all add up - are being overlooked, which results in what looks like (but obviously isn’t!) a very amateurish operation.

Hopefully it will all gradually be fixed in due course, but part of me fears it will take a catastrophic foul-up for this to happen.