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The one difference, and a fairly important one, that I did notice was that GB news reported on the lockdown protest today in London, whereas I haven’t seen Sky or BBC report on it. They might have, I don’t watch news 24/7, but I doubt it.
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The one difference, and a fairly important one, that I did notice was that GB news reported on the lockdown protest today in London, whereas I haven’t seen Sky or BBC report on it. They might have, I don’t watch news 24/7, but I doubt it.
C4 News seem to be broadcasting from the centre of a noisy protest outside Downing St. , so it's hardly being hidden !
C4 News seem to be broadcasting from the centre of a noisy protest outside Downing St. , so it's hardly being hidden !
Reporting or giving a one sided biased opinion?
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Reporting. If you want one side biased opinions then do stick to the Express/GB News.
Closed minds are very much on the cranky hysterical right these days. Another Americanisation invading our Country. I blame Trump, Fox and UFOs playing with our brain waves.
Protests happen in London all the time. The news doesn't report on all of it. Last weekend there was a Palestine protest which went unreported because it wasn't new nor did anything apparently happen at it. People on the left moan all the time when 'their' protest wasn't covered. It's just a fact a lot of the time they don't.
C4 News seem to be broadcasting from the centre of a noisy protest outside Downing St. , so it's hardly being hidden !
It might as well be, C4 News is a non-entity ideally suited to leftist woke types.
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Reporting. If you want one side biased opinions then do stick to the Express/GB News.
Closed minds are very much on the cranky hysterical right these days. Another Americanisation invading our Country. I blame Trump, Fox and UFOs playing with our brain waves.
The technical problems will be fixed in time. Not a huge statement on the future of the channel, it'll be if they can find an audience for an opinion led TV channel.
The other thing they need to fix is the lighting and camera set-up. I watched a bit of their morning show which has four main presenters but they've chosen to frame the entire desk in shot throughout the show, rather than cutting to close-ups of the current speaker, so they look oddly distant from the camera. The lighting is very dark as well.
The thing is that these technical problems give a bad impression and people tuning in may decide not to return again.
If someone tried out a new restaurant and had issue after issue that was explained away by them being a new business I doubt they'd go again as they'd expect them to be professional from the start.
Andrew Neil hinted at the problems yesterday by more or less saying that they are to be expected with a new station, with new staff using new equipment.
They've had plenty of time to practice though, especially as their launch was delayed. What would it be like if they had launched on time!?
Personally, i'll continue to have it on in the background for a bit longer to see if it's for me or not.
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In a way it reminds me of the launch of Today in the mid 1980s. Made much, pre-launch, of the fact that it would substantially be printed in full colour, but when it came to it, most pages were slightly off-register (the four colour plates weren’t aligned properly, so the pictures looked muddy, with colourful haloes around the edges). Sometimes they were dreadfully misaligned. Correctly lining up the CMYK plates prior to rolling the printing press is basic stuff, but at launch they simply hadn’t managed to hire anyone good enough to get it bang on, first time, every time, under the pressure of daily newspaper deadlines.
Some of the stuff GBN is getting wrong at the moment is the sort of thing that a competent crew from a small production company would spot, correct and re-take, if they were out making a corporate video. The problem GBN has is it’s making its mistakes live on air. The lighting, costuming and audio shortcomings should be remedied within a few days, even if, as seems to be the case, they’ve been unable to attract hires with substantial experience of producing live news. If you can’t spot these sorts of mistakes and you don’t know how to correct them, you really shouldn’t be working with TV cameras in any context whatsoever.
The editorial direction is another matter entirely. This is obviously where all the money has been spent so you would hope they’d know what they’re doing. That remains to be seen.
I'm old enough to remember that. Innovative but underfunded. So, we had Shah Vision then and we have Neil Sound now.
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Don’t suppose you remember the slightly psychedelic sketch Spitting Image did, with Eddie Shah surrounded by shimmering kaleidoscope effects and insisting everything looked perfectly fine?
Don’t suppose you remember the slightly psychedelic sketch Spitting Image did, with Eddie Shah surrounded by shimmering kaleidoscope effects and insisting everything looked perfectly fine?
Watched a bit more. Neil is easily their star presenter. Some technical problems but doesn't seem to be as many today but the issues around lighting and camera positioning are still there although it does seem to be lighter.
It's just a bit boring though. The presenters are clearly trying to fill out the time with a discussion between them but it's unnatural and stilted.
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