The Kate Adie syndrome

What do you suggest as an alternative?

Nah, sorry Yeldarb, can't get excited about them. They're just doing their job, what they're paid to do. They can't get paid for not doing their job can they?!

Stand in a dramatic pose, looking concerned in a windy place and point out that things are going to get much worse before they get better.

EW

Dear Brad,

The solution is to follow the radio news. It is far more detailed and considered, and as I don't have a TV it is how I have got the instant news for years. My favourite reports are the Six o'Clock and Midnight News on Radio Four. I don't enjoy the chatty stuff at Five PM, though the World Tonight is usually good. I don't tend to get the earlier news buletins.

Even when I had a TV I used to find the posed reporters looked pretty silly! So I gave up TV news before I gave up the TV...

Fredrik

I don't recall a thread calling for it to be stopped when a reporter or photographer / cameraman is killed doing their job ...........

It's just a sign of this modern age - that's why we now get to see modern day tradegies unfold live on TV before our eyes. Remember 9/11 ?

They do the fill-ins when they are not in the field doing the dangerous stuff.

I notice the US reporters often fill the frame but the British reporters are usually shot standing back with more of the scene visible to the viewer.

Actually, I think that was an observation of Sebastian Rich in his book about being an ITV (?) cameraman.

Do you remember when a reporter was sent home from Afghanistan for wearing a low cut, tight tee-shirt? It was when viewers complained that she was pulled off the air, not words from studio bosses. Priceless.
Generally it`s the tone of voice that has me turning off - full of faux gravitas. And the openning line is always the same format...."Daybreak in the western desert...."
I`ll stick to C4 news.

The point I am making is that they are potentially putting themselves in harm's way to report a story, and I am challenging the need for them to do so.

I don't think they are being dedicated journalists - they are being foolhardy - and I am being specific about reporters such as those who were filming in a clearly dangerous hotel foyer during Rita, along with other reports from roadsides. That wasn't cutting edge journalism - it was idiocy.

I see your point. I`m sure it`s an issue of bad management

That Claire Marshall looks luvverly...especially when windswept.

Jon, have a shower and put a CD on...

I've said it once and I'll say it again:

"Man in a rowing boat taken to extremes"

During the Torrey Canyon disaster the TV news reporter was shown bobbing precariously in a small rowing boat in a local harbour while gesticulating out to sea. Where (Quote) "17 nautical miles away" there had been a bit of a mishap.

The media persons never looked back form this Oscar-whining performance. I have spent the ensuing decades wishing the oaf/tart in front of the camera would stand asside (just once) to allow the viewer to judge the quantity and quality of the mayhem for themselves. I am still waiting.....

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The solution is to follow the radio news. It is far more detailed and considered

Must agree 100% and the pictures are so much better.