Obviously this is an ongoing story, and since I’ve spent the whole weekend in a field outside of Chelmsford, I’m basing this on Monday evening’s coverage.
\nI noticed that the BBC had relatively few pictures on News 24 for their “B-roll” of Jamaica post the hurricane’s passing. But it wasn’t nearly as bad as the footage that CNN was using from the island. They had a reporter there, but they’d got the footage from a satellite camera phone, and it looked terrible.
\nI know that technology has allowed correspondents to go practically solo, but I’m amazed that CNN didn’t have proper uplink facilities. ITN on the other hand had great footage, and a really good report with the correspondent showing before and after at one man’s house.
\nThen ITN also had a live link with someone in Cancun – a GMTV reporter. I’d like to think that this was some kind of joined up thinking by ITN and GMTV, but I’m not altogther sure.
\nOne final thing: why is the media so keen that the hurricane should go from a category 4 to a category 5 storm? As one expert commentator said, it’s the difference between being hit by a bus and being hit by a lorry. It’s going to do a lot of damage either way, whether it’s 249kph or 251kph (the difference between categories).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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