MrOrangeSpangle

Blink and you'll miss it, but the genius Slovakian-made 'Snow-Day' igloo on Goose green, is on the front page of the BBC News website. It's 3 minutes 20, into this video item... http://news.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/hi/newsbeat/newsid_7873000/7873566.stm

Willow, I agree with many of your points regarding The Day Today style graphics and over gesticulating reporters (they are actually trained to do that - truthfully). But I reckon BBC News is actually a lot better than it used to be. Take a look at this clip from Charlie Brooker's excellent Screen Wipe. http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=gLdHWng-3v8&feature=related Check out from about 2'20" in. Lot's of clips from back in the 'golden age' of television news. Truly terrible. There are lot's of things wrong with BBC news, and rolling 24 hour news is almost universally terrible. The fact is, by their nature, news programmes are effectively thrown together on the day. That's why you have visual cliches of punters looking at photo-albums, leafing through bills, walking through graveyards/the park, playing with their kids in the back garden. Camera crews are sent round to interview people, film them and get the pictures back often in much less than an hour. They are cliches, but time is a cruel mistress. It could be much worse. Have you ever seen Fox news or CNN?