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Raw, but c*nsored blabbing and blogging of a young journalista
and local news producer in Southern New England.
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Today on TopStoryLive:
Saturday, April 09, 2005
Morning in Manchester (On Vac: Manchester, NH)
(entry bandwidth courtesy of Fairfield Inn by Marriott)
Okay, consider me SO GLAD to be not working this week. The Pope's funeral Friday, and then the Royal Wedding today. BLAH!
Of course, since this is Manchester, saw a bit of Today in New England this morning with Phil Lipof and Juli Auclair. But they had an Operating Difficulty that was right out of my shop's playbook.
End of the A-block at 9:00. Supposed to throw to a Pope Funeral Wrap package from Jeff Glor on assignment at the Vatican with a "Funeral for the Father" open. However, a "map animation" rolled late.
And then stayed on screen. For an interminable several seconds (interminable by 7 News standards). Anchors said nothing in VO.
And then the break was rolled.
AAAAGH!
Then of course in classic 7 News fashion they didn't make any mention of the technical problem whatsoever but came back from break with the "Funeral for the Father" open and threw to the package... which apparently had been found by now.
Any one of a number of things could have happened but I consider it a REALLY bad move to just act randomly like that, especially with no explanation.
Which of course brings me to another point that I had... for WMUR.
Last night I had the privilege to see some of their coverage of the local Arena Football team... and at one point the on-air talent mentioned that there was a problem getting the message to the referees that they were taking so-called "TV timeouts" -- and presumably the referees were continuing the game during the commercial, which you're not supposed to do.
Originally I said, what does the viewer care? And now I realize that it fits the criterion: there is only need to explain or go into detail when something is impeding the viewer from getting the information he (OR SHE, Patrick) wants.
And incidentally Camilla Parker Bowles-Windsor's hat is hideous. Two Old Gits To Get Hitched, indeed. Labels: Originally published
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