Monday, 23 November 2009

Press release: Rolling news

Rolling news is just getting too daft.  Too many hours of broadcast time and not enough people to do it.  The journos are so busy standing there talking endlessly to camera that they don't have the time to do a proper journos job - ie check the facts, pull the story together.  Instead its rambling hyperbole to dress up the same pictures as there is not enough staff to get the latest.

Just look at the flood story.  The same pics endlessly repeated, the same rolling news reporter spewing out the same endless words on every quarter hour.

Where's the story behind the story. The only development comes when the police, fire, ambulance etc release a press statement.  Where's the contacts?  Where's the exclusives?  Drone drone drone..........

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