I-ve just left a meeting in New Scotland Yard.<\/p>\n
When I arrived – two hours ago, there were two television crews (full outside broadcasting units) standing outside on the pavement; set up with cameras on tripods, microphones that looked like fluffy dachshunds and small ancillary lighting units. And a cameraman and a sound technician.<\/p>\n
Two hours later and guess what’s outside?<\/p>\n
Yep, two television crews, cameras on tripods, microphones that look like fluffy dachshunds and small ancillary lighting units.\u00a0And a cameraman and a sound technician.<\/p>\n
WTF?<\/p>\n
Don’t television news companies have more creative ways of spending their budget?<\/p>\n
You know that all you’re going to get will be a ‘talking to camera’ piece where the studio anchor asks inane questions of a very cold looking person who is standing outside a building’.<\/p>\n
And this small point really gets me.<\/p>\n
BBC News (or whoever, the precise name of the production company is not important – it’s the principle of the thing that I’m questioning) sends out an OB unit with a presenter to stand in front of a closed doorway or a sign that says ‘Department of…’ so that someone back in the studio can ask the most inane questions in a 30-second ‘to camera’ piece.<\/p>\n
What?<\/p>\n
Why?<\/p>\n
And…<\/p>\n
For how much?<\/p>\n
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