Bbc Reporter

[lankeela]

Why on earth did he have to be filmed stood outside Gatwick Airport? Can there be anyone watching BBC News who does not know what Gatwick Airport looks like? Why send a reporter and a cameraman there just to tell us that Virgin Atlantic are going to cut their operations. What chance do we have of getting this thing under control when people are still making unnecessary journeys.

[Milo2]

I agree. I always think the same when the reporter is outside places such as Buckingham Palace because they are reporting on the Royals. Why can’t it be done in the studio?

[douglas9401]

"Can there be anyone watching BBC News who does not know what Gatwick Airport looks like?"

Well, yes, Stonehenge it ain't. Never been and probably never will.
Even the frozen north has airports.

[Theland]

Its better when it's blowing a gale and lashing down :-)

[tiggerblue10]

I always wonder that when they are reporting from Syria or any other war torn country. Why put themselves in that position and the added pressure of troops to protect them.

[Theland]

Lyce Doucet deserves a medal.

[roopower]

I've always wondered about this too. A reporter standing against plolice tape " this is as near as we can get". I suppose they have to spend their money somehow.

[Theland]

Wherever you see Lyce Doucet, you see war, death and destruction.
When we heard she was visiting our town, we slaughtered an albatross for luck :-)

[ToraToraTora]

makes me laugh when they fly someone to go and stand in a Hurricane and "report"!

[andy-hughes]

I can only assume it is because having a reporter 'on site' adds a level of realism and gravitas that would be absent if they simply reported from a studio, which would make every report look the same.

I tend not to notice when they do it for news pieces, but as regulars on here will know, every winter I post about the utter pointlessness of having some poor sap standing outside in a Northface jacket freezing their extremities off, to tell me it's snowing.

I was around in 1963, I KNOW WHAT SNOW LOOKS LIKE!!!!!!

Just tell me it's snowing, I'll understand!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[jno]

do you really think a reporter going to Gatwick is going to bring on a second wave of coronavirus?

[albaqwerty]

It's a carry-over from when the beeb were the only reliable source of news (circa 1950) and everything was in B&W to show the great unwashed who could afford a tv what the outside world looked like, albeit in B&W :-))

The beeb are now no longer a credible source but like to think they are super-important to have esteemed reporters who will travel to flooded areas as well as airports and castle gates.

[237SJ]

Just carry on worrying about that and not the 3000+ who are going to lose their jobs.

[sp1814]

lankeela

I think that the reason why journalists go to the places being reported on is because it gives a sense of immediacy to the report.

Also, with a journalist onsite there's a chance they may have people there willing to give an interview.

And BBC News content is packaged for broadcast outside the UK (the World Service) where viewers may not be familiar with places that are obvious to us.

[sp1814]

albaqwerty

//The beeb are now no longer a credible source//

Really?

What makes you say that?

[albaqwerty]

my apologies, sp, I should have added, in my opinion.

It's just little nuances over the years. Slight tweaks from a lunchtime news report to an evening news report too.
Almost miniscule.
I don't have any concrete evidence or anything to link to.

[sp1814]

albaqwerty

Ah yes. I totally get that.

I think the BBC definitely went off the boil when Sophie Raworth had her moles removed.

[albaqwerty]

lol, I couldn't possibly comment :D

[jno]

things change between lunchtime and evening; reports will reflect that. Most media outlets - radio, TV, newspapers, online - will do the same. Stories may be prepared at different times by different people who have different opinions. This is unlikely to happen with Pravda but it doesn't seem like a weakness in a western democracy to me.

[tomus42]

//do you really think a reporter going to Gatwick is going to bring on a second wave of coronavirus? //

You could say that about a family driving twenty miles to have a picnic at a beauty spot. Either unnecessary journeys are OK, or they're not.

[elliemay1]

This is funny:
https://metro.co.uk/video/irish-reporter-battered-storm-desmond-live-broadcast-1254129/