I saw ITV News as a channel trying too hard to milk this story to grab viewers. When a reporter was interviewing one of the victims, he showed no compassion and remorse, when the victim was clearly struggling and did not want to speak, and yet he persisted in demanding more information. It was good coverage at lunchtime, but when the story continued, it was obvious milking.
BBC News 24 I found had a lack of live images, and tended to use the same material over and over again. However the coverage from presenters such as Hayton, Amroliawala, Edwards, Raworth, Sopel etc showed how much experience and quality the BBC has. Tended to be the slow, but the most reliable source. Failed to cut in to live conferences such as Tony Blair giving the press conferences with the world leaders, him leaving Gleneagles etc. Interviews with experts as well, whereas I found ITV News to be interviewing unnecessary people, they may as well have interviewed Uri Geller. Why bring one of the victims or the driver to the studio for a 1-minute chat? It would have been interesting to hear what the driver would say. Frank Gardner should have been used more by the BBC, instead of 2 minute interviews.
Sky News was quality, and managed to get reporters quickly at location. I often switched between News 24 and Sky. No adverts, plenty of updates, lots of live coverage from cameras across the scene, plenty of public sending in photoes. Good use of the ticker as well for worried people, whereas News 24 just wanted to know your experiences. However I felt Stanford and Etchingham were on for ages...I would have used Jeremy Thompson earlier. At times the information was unreliable and they interviewed the same person again and again.
I've critisized Five for the way they dropped two of their flagship programmes for a C-List film, however they gave the best coverage today as terrestial goes.
A 150 minute bully this morning as it happened, stopping at 2pm to go back to the normal schedule. They then had a 35 minute report at 5.30pm, which told viewers what has happened today in a much more dignified, consisce and clear way than the other networks did.
ITV were very guiilty of over-reporting, and I felt dropping everything between 10.30 and 7pm was rather extreme. Much better to have regular updates that gave you the facts rather than the milk.
Allan King and Steve Gaisford have just taken over from Mark Longhurst and Chris Roberts over on Sky News. ITV News is continuing its live coverage with Rachel McTavish.
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were todays news special the longest ever in the bbc and itv history
itv news 10:12-1900 does anyone have the start of the news special on itv 1. i recorded todays events but missed 4 hours of live coverage as i had to go out
There are certainly some odd faces doing the location reporting tonight on the ITVNC, who are these people ?
Well Christopher Peacock is a TVS and LNN legend - since the demise of LNN he has resurfaced on Central South. Nick Walton freelances on ITV London. I forget the name of the other person.
I'm watch ABC World News Tonight on News 24 right now - compared to our coverage, this is - without wanting to sound insensitive - hilariously overdramatic.
They've even got little animated flames to represent the explosion locations on a 3D map - complete with 3D Big Ben and Tower Bridge.
EDIT: And this is a complete transcript of how much of Tony Blair's speech at the G8 they showed in the report:
I'm watch ABC World News Tonight on News 24 right now - compared to our coverage, this is - without wanting to sound insensitive - hilariously overdramatic.
They've even got little animated flames to represent the explosion locations on a 3D map - complete with 3D Big Ben and Tower Bridge.
