I'm with you there. I switch them off, too. Last week I heard an interview with one of the Beeb's top female reporters, whose distressing memory of 9/11 was that she had booked a day off and wasn't in the studio telling us all about it. Uugh.
Missing Girl in Wales...
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ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
There are some presenters who relay news items to the public from their autocue or earpiece without any obvious sign that they have any emotional connection with it at all. Tales of tragic accidents, torture, disappearances, incredible suffering ... it all passes them by, but they remember to tilt their head to look good on camera, adopt a fake grave tone, even worse, actually smile as they relate the ghastly story of a tourist being beheaded!
You get the occasional newsreader who looks a bit shaken, or pauses when reporting something horrible. I'm talking a genuine human pause, not a staged professional one ... I've seen them gulp, gather themselves and then carry on. That is professional! George Alagiah is a good example - shocked by the shocking, touched by the moving, amused by the funny!
Silver Fox
Guru
That was particularly evident on wednesday when the BBC were covering the funeral of PC Nicola Hughes. When they cut back to the studio Fiona Armstrong was clearly holding the tears back.
Beebo
Firm and Fruity
- Location
- Hexleybeef
unfortunately in a number of cases it is the parents that have done it, the police suspect them and put them infront of the cameras to see how they react.
Not in this case though.
Mad Doug Biker
Banned from every bar in the Galaxy
- Location
- Craggy Island
As far as we know.
asterix
Comrade Member
- Location
- Limoges or York
They are anxious to find people who can verify his movements. Such evidence might work for or against him. Obviously they must publicise his photo as such people may have seen him but not know who it was by name.
I would let the professionals do their job and don't trust the media to get it right. Remember Hillsborough?
Mad Doug Biker
Banned from every bar in the Galaxy
- Location
- Craggy Island
Yep, put, the pitchforks, away!!
mrandmrspoves
Middle aged bald git.
- Location
- Narfuk
[QUOTE 2078325, member: 1314"]lol. Me and my 2 kids don't wear helmets.
mrandmrspoves - your kids play any contact sports. Not trying tocatch you out. My kids play rugby and have already have had plenty of head-knocks (one concussion), one hospital visit, two lost toe-nails between them.[/quote]
Son who had the Volvo played rugby at University.....and has been bungee jumping from some incredibly scary bridge while traveling Asia/Africa (where he was mugged - but then convinced the mugger to return his wallet!)/Australia. He cycles and doesn't wear a helmet, drinks more than recommended, and is an incredibly happy, well rounded and likable chap (if I say so myself) I don't like all the decisions/choices he makes - but he is old enough to make his own decisions. He does however still risk assess situations.....and makes his choices based on how he perceives the risk.
mrandmrspoves - your kids play any contact sports. Not trying tocatch you out. My kids play rugby and have already have had plenty of head-knocks (one concussion), one hospital visit, two lost toe-nails between them.[/quote]
Son who had the Volvo played rugby at University.....and has been bungee jumping from some incredibly scary bridge while traveling Asia/Africa (where he was mugged - but then convinced the mugger to return his wallet!)/Australia. He cycles and doesn't wear a helmet, drinks more than recommended, and is an incredibly happy, well rounded and likable chap (if I say so myself) I don't like all the decisions/choices he makes - but he is old enough to make his own decisions. He does however still risk assess situations.....and makes his choices based on how he perceives the risk.
mrandmrspoves
Middle aged bald git.
- Location
- Narfuk
Mmmm..... not quite sure what your point about Hillsborough was? Yes the press did report things badly - but largely based on the lies fed to them by the police who were far from professional
asterix
Comrade Member
- Location
- Limoges or York
Nevertheless, Kelvin McKenzie wrote the headline that did the damage, not the police. He wrote it because he thought it was what would make people buy the newspaper. He has recently demanded that the police apologise for causing him to write it and they have point-blank told him to go and .... If the police needed someone to tell lies on their behalf I guess they knew their man.
It seems to me that the police in Machynlleth are acting professionally whereas we still have same media standards to put up with.
It seems to me that the police in Machynlleth are acting professionally whereas we still have same media standards to put up with.
asterix
Comrade Member
- Location
- Limoges or York
So why the Volvo?
ComedyPilot
Secret Lemonade Drinker
- Location
- The Kingdom of Yorkshire
To Kay Burley - "You are a scum-sucking cow of the highest order"
That is all.
That is all.
mrandmrspoves
Middle aged bald git.
- Location
- Narfuk
I don't disagree with anything you have written here. Sadly though, our media behave in the way they do because society behaves the way it does and pays for their products.
mrandmrspoves
Middle aged bald git.
- Location
- Narfuk
Beebo
Firm and Fruity
- Location
- Hexleybeef
I'm prepared to offer her the benefit of the doubt, she was probably receiving loads of information in her ear piece and had 5 mins of live TV to fill, so came out with a standard "what do you think" question without thinking about the outcome. I bet she feels pretty crappy about herself right now.
This is the problem with live rolling 24 news, they have to be the first for a scoop. Did you see Fox News last week broadcast a man commit suicide live on TV by shooting himself in the head with a pistol. What do Fox and Sky have in common?
