I applaud Brig Slater!

But it's nothing new, and just goes to show the lengths to which most (TV) News programs will go to to promote themselves.

EG. How often have you seen a reporter presenting news from in front of a courthouse/scene-of-crime/municiple office etc. and all they do is use the "on-site" location as a backdrop? There's the backdrop, the reporter speaks their news and nothing else happens.

How much does it cost to get that reporter and Outside-Broadcast facility to the site (often complete with catering facilities), set up the OB, check that the communucations are OK and all the rest, just so that a reporter can stand there and deliver a report that could have been done a lot more easily and cheaply from within the broadcasting studio, and without any real loss of impact?

I despair...

OK, if the scene is a long way away, and might last several days, it might be worth the expense. But so often, it's not....

Cheers,
Diolma

(Rant over - you can send the cameras to outside my house to film Diolma not doing anything at all..)