25-04-2023, 06:52 PM
(25-04-2023, 05:24 PM)Stuart Wrote:I'm not debating editorial decisions - suffice to say that each one of those stories are significant, breaking lines. Harry Belafonte is also one of the most important civil rights campaigners of the age. It's been a busy news day and the teams have done their best to provide adequate coverage a few shots of a plane leaving Khartoum, whilst also a developing line, could wait 40 minutes.(25-04-2023, 05:08 PM)Matrix Wrote: To be fair, there are about four or five lines of quite big breaking news coming out. William's compo claim, for sure, but also then Biden, Lola James, and Harry Belafonte.William's compo claim is not breaking news, Biden is international news about a US election in 18 months, and I don't even know who Harry Belafonte is.
The first flight leaving was covered, albeit it did take about 30 minutes for it be a stand alone item. FCDO advice to get to the outskirts of the airfield has been covered for days now and features prominently in both pre-packaged reports and during live ad-libs.
The FCDO was telling everyone to stay put for days. It was only this afternoon that they suddenly told them to go to the airfield. That was more important breaking news than anything else. Evacuating up to 4,000 people (far more than the few hundred moved by other European countries) takes planning. It's the most important news story of the day.