How many people does it take to push a button which starts the broadcast of a movie which we have all seen at least twice before? Probably about 200 at present !!!
Every news programme you get a news reader or two and the seven dwarfs in the studio plus a plethora of lucky minions out reporting for 20 seconds from a scene of water flowing down a street, which could be anywhere and then they head back into the nearest pub on expenses having done their bit. Why?
They very likely get so drunk that the same loop has to be played over and over again all day until they all get fed on expenses and have a kip in the nearest five star hotel, on expenses, before getting up next day and doing it all again, on expenses, while praying for more rain!!!
Then you have the classic waste of money. Hire a helicopter to fly over totally unrecognisable bits of land surrounded by water with the voice over, 'down there is the A 2045 which is underwater just now !!! The canny reporter will always have a lamb doll handy to put on a land island and film another pass. From a fair height who knows the difference?
The best one ever is the site of a road death especially if it sadly has a child concerned. A Reporter was once caught putting flowers down and then standing back doing a piece to camera. That is how it all started.
Later one eared teddy bears and other stuff started to come out of car boots for more gravitas. It got so bad that I understand that memos were sent round demanding that it be stopped but the public were hooked.
Reporters will phone up opposition newsrooms and send their competition off on the wrong direction. News ratings are a cynical game.
During the Iraq War at about three o'clock in the morning during a lull I saw a Sky News report appear showing a ransacked office with a reporter stating that it was the office of the head of the secret police. He gleefully showed looseleaf files of data opening them up to camera quickly to show scribbles of writing. I started e. mailing Sky to say it was a hoax and it was eventually taken down. The reporter had been so thick that he did not know that Arabic script is written from right to left and therefore a loose leaf folder would have to be reversed in order to read it. Books were lying on the guy's desk with English titles on them although it was said that the previous incumbent could not speak english. All the clues were there. The whole thing was a hoax done by using the time zone difference to hit the night duty staff of Sky. The gentleman involved now is at the Guardian with the rather unusual first name of Indigo.
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