29-05-2023, 05:01 AM
I supppse that’s logical, and as you say an American audience just wouldn’t care about another country’s election, regardless of how historic it may be. They especially wouldn’t care if it wasn’t a key ally of the US.
So rolling international-focused coverage probably wouldn’t be appropriate, but I was thinking it was implied that they hadn’t covered it at all (when I would expect them to). If it was covered throughout other bulletins then that is probably the correct level of coverage for the audience. I also wasn’t really thinking about the time zone angle. I was thinking simplistically there as an either/or all or nothing situation - which, in reality, it clearly wasn’t.
Perhaps I am used to that thinking in terms of coverage now as that’s the logic the BBC do use on their new channel!
Anyway, I retract my earlier comments because CNN probably did make the right calls here, on reflection.
PS: The debt ceiling, yes stuff is happening although the text isn’t out yet so there’s really nothing to say other than “we think there’s a deal, there’s going to be a vote in a few days, the text will be released soon”. Anything more than basic reaction from Democrats and Republicans is just talking heads in the name of analysis. I know cable news loves to have their panels, but the stage to start poring over it (in my view) is once the text of the deal is released.
So rolling international-focused coverage probably wouldn’t be appropriate, but I was thinking it was implied that they hadn’t covered it at all (when I would expect them to). If it was covered throughout other bulletins then that is probably the correct level of coverage for the audience. I also wasn’t really thinking about the time zone angle. I was thinking simplistically there as an either/or all or nothing situation - which, in reality, it clearly wasn’t.
Perhaps I am used to that thinking in terms of coverage now as that’s the logic the BBC do use on their new channel!
Anyway, I retract my earlier comments because CNN probably did make the right calls here, on reflection.
PS: The debt ceiling, yes stuff is happening although the text isn’t out yet so there’s really nothing to say other than “we think there’s a deal, there’s going to be a vote in a few days, the text will be released soon”. Anything more than basic reaction from Democrats and Republicans is just talking heads in the name of analysis. I know cable news loves to have their panels, but the stage to start poring over it (in my view) is once the text of the deal is released.