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Miners Rescue - Chile

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BR
breakingnews
dosxuk posted:
But, as others have said, the handful of people based in South America (which is not a tiny place) don't have the resources to allow them to fulfil all of the demands by the producers. Additional kit and personnel are going to need to be sent out anyway, so why not send a presenter / reporter who is experienced in those demands at the same time?

What exactly do you see as being an issue?


So why have correspondents based in South America if they can't cover stories? What do they do on a daily basis? Handy job I think.

The issue is the size of the BBC news department. I personally think it's outrageously big. And even when there's a news story in a foreign land, they end up sending London people to the cover story. Even in the States, they end up sending Gavin Hewitt to cover stories, despite the fact that they have endless US reporters. Doesn't make sense! Rant over.
DO
dosxuk
The normal correspondants are probably getting on with their normal jobs - covering other stories from the continent, and doing local research and working with local contacts to assist "the Londoners", rather than abandoning everything else and working solely on the one story. It's no different than the Raol Moat story being covered by the main presenters for BBC / ITN / Sky instead of their normal local correspondants - they're busy carrying on with covering the other minor stories from the region.
GE
thegeek Founding member
I noticed earlier the BBC had sent Matt Frei from Washington.
FO
fodg09
Emma Hurd has joined the Sky team in Chile. Sky will have rolling coverage of the story from 10pm on Tuesday night with the rescue due to begin around 4am UK time.

http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/World-News/Chile-Miners-Sky-News-Will-Bring-Live-Coverage-Of-The-Rescue-Operation/Article/201010215756226?lpos=World_News_Carousel_Region_2&lid=ARTICLE_15756226_Chile_Miners%3A_Sky_News_Will_Bring_Live_Coverage_Of_The_Rescue_Operation
PE
Pete Founding member
breakingnews posted:
It's a good news story. I suppose the media are keen to give this story as much attention as they would to a terrible news story. It is arguably a fascinating event given the amount of time they're trapped. Almost 70 days.

But I certainly have an issue with the BBC sending people from London to cover the story when there's people in South America, that seem to do nothing. I really don't get the point of so many international reporters.


Let's presume your town has two Tescos in it. When one of them needs their tills replaced do they ask the staff from the other branch to do it for them as "they're in the area" or do they get some other people in? Just curious.
LJ
Live at five with Jeremy
Has it really been justified sending all them reporters/presenters? It was not a lean on any of the Ten O clock news and wasn't high on the priority list tonight. This will be a big story for 2 days max and then it will be forgotten about. A major waste of resources. Miners have been rescued before without such attention so whats different about this story?
BR
breakingnews
dosxuk posted:
The normal correspondants are probably getting on with their normal jobs - covering other stories from the continent, and doing local research and working with local contacts to assist "the Londoners", rather than abandoning everything else and working solely on the one story. It's no different than the Raol Moat story being covered by the main presenters for BBC / ITN / Sky instead of their normal local correspondants - they're busy carrying on with covering the other minor stories from the region.


Normal jobs - is that covering stories that the UK has interest in?

I have no issue at all with Sky or ITV and how many people they send to Chile as they are commercial stations, but the BBC seems to throw money away on endless international reporters which they never use.
CH
chris_rgu
BBC special at 10pm tonight for the rescue of the miners.
JW
JamesWorldNews
Back-biting aside, this story (as I mentioned in my opening post) is a one-off and not a daily event. It is also one of immense human interest (which of us in not fascinated by the whole triumph potential this story has?). Like so many other "one-offs", it's only logical that it receives the media interest we are currently seeing. I would personally have been p!ssed off if the outlets hadn't sent out the big guns to cover it.

If the BBC can pour hours of Papal coverage down our throats, not to mention Royal Weddings and other such coverage of the priviliged, I think it's great that they have brought this story about real people to our screens.

Hopefully, it will be just around breakfast time in my region tomorrow when the first of the trapped is brought out.

Fingers crossed, guys.
GS
Gavin Scott Founding member
BBC WORLD posted:
Papal coverage down our throats...


I think that's reserved for alter boys.
FU
fusionlad Founding member
Gavin Scott posted:
BBC WORLD posted:
Papal coverage down our throats...


I think that's reserved for alter boys.


Gavin that's bad.

Love it.
MI
Mike516
breakingnews posted:
dosxuk posted:
The normal correspondants are probably getting on with their normal jobs - covering other stories from the continent, and doing local research and working with local contacts to assist "the Londoners", rather than abandoning everything else and working solely on the one story. It's no different than the Raol Moat story being covered by the main presenters for BBC / ITN / Sky instead of their normal local correspondants - they're busy carrying on with covering the other minor stories from the region.


Normal jobs - is that covering stories that the UK has interest in?

I have no issue at all with Sky or ITV and how many people they send to Chile as they are commercial stations, but the BBC seems to throw money away on endless international reporters which they never use.


Yes, but BBC News gets money from the commercially funded BBC World News and BBC America, as well as the bbc.com website. If it wasn't for them and the additional bulletins and newsgathering needed for them, I'm sure the BBC would have far fewer correspondents around the world.

BBC World News is a commercial organisation and should be compared with CNN. Together with BBC World News and BBC America, BBC News Channel can give us far better coverage than if they went it alone. ITV only has a few bulletins to make, if they had a 24/7 news channel, I'm sure they would have more people to cover in shifts. Incidentally, the release of the miners will come at Prime Time in the USA, so it will be a battle of the the main US news outlets - which now includes the BBC on TV and on the new USA edition of bbc.com/news.

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