On Nov 23, 6:00*pm, MIG wrote:
On Nov 23, 3:21*pm, Fat richard wrote:

On Nov 23, 8:06*am, MIG wrote:

On good form today with reports of South Eastern services suspended
between Shepherds Bush and Milton Keynes.

If you will indulge me, I will rewind a bit back to the beginning.

snip interesting explanation of how the chain becomes broken just to
stop this being too long

I was in a hurry, but to put it into context ...

I was listening to a news report (TV in fact) and I heard "Major
disruption ... South Eastern ..."

I was already cursing before I cottoned on that this was, in fact, a
story about disruption on the WCML (or perhaps that's not a story any
more).

I was not taking the PIS out of them getting the TOC wrong, because
I'm all in favour of not even advertising the TOC.

And I'm not criticising those in the chain that got broken. *I am
critisicing people in a local newsroom who seem to have bugger all to
do except read out sixty seconds of the same script every half hour
and don't seem to give a sh*t that the script is nonsense with respect
to a local area that they are supposed to know about.

This time, I think they started getting the TOC right after an hour
and a half, but still didn't bill it as a story about the WCML.

I appreciated that you was just stating the obvious from the outset
and the chain is often broken at then end where the names of TOCs and
locations involved tend to be unknown by the pretty face / voice.
Their lack of knowledge of the system is, to be honest, undertsandable
as they tend to be the journos at the star of the process to becoming
a top flight presenter with brains, that said the appalling offerings
on Skys rolling news does not instill confidence that the (w)anchors
have a clue what they are "on about".



Richard

Fat richard wrote:

I appreciated that you was just stating the obvious from the outset
and the chain is often broken at then end where the names of TOCs and
locations involved tend to be unknown by the pretty face / voice.
Their lack of knowledge of the system is, to be honest, undertsandable
as they tend to be the journos at the star of the process to becoming
a top flight presenter with brains, that said the appalling offerings
on Skys rolling news does not instill confidence that the (w)anchors
have a clue what they are "on about".


I think the Sky News anchors/presenters are probably chosen to be less
than totally bright in order not to make the channel's target audience
feel that they are being talked down to.

On Nov 23, 10:13*pm, Bruce wrote:

Fat richard wrote:

I appreciated that you was just stating the obvious from the outset
and the chain is often broken at then end where the names of TOCs and
locations involved tend to be unknown by the pretty face / voice.
Their lack of knowledge of the system is, to be honest, undertsandable
as they tend to be the journos at the star of the process to becoming
a top flight presenter with brains, that said the appalling offerings
on Skys rolling news does not instill confidence that the (w)anchors
have a clue what they are "on about".

I think the Sky News anchors/presenters are probably chosen to be less
than totally bright in order not to make the channel's target audience
feel that they are being talked down to.

Kay Burley... shudder!

Mizter T wrote:
On Nov 23, 10:13*pm, Bruce wrote:

Fat richard wrote:

I appreciated that you was just stating the obvious from the outset
and the chain is often broken at then end where the names of TOCs and
locations involved tend to be unknown by the pretty face / voice.
Their lack of knowledge of the system is, to be honest, undertsandable
as they tend to be the journos at the star of the process to becoming
a top flight presenter with brains, that said the appalling offerings
on Skys rolling news does not instill confidence that the (w)anchors
have a clue what they are "on about".

I think the Sky News anchors/presenters are probably chosen to be less
than totally bright in order not to make the channel's target audience
feel that they are being talked down to.

Kay Burley... shudder!


I think you meant Ms Whiplash. ;-)

She's the exception that proves the rule. She talks down to (and
upsets) everyone, especially politicians, celebrities and famous
people.

The worst possible thing to happen was for Bill Clinton to let it be
known (on a visit to the UK) that he fancied her, having seen her on
breakfast TV. It went completely to her head. Perhaps no-one had the
heart to tell her that Bill Clinton fancies anything in a skirt, and
completely loses all self-control when a blue dress is involved. ;-)