Why Do They Do This?

[Kathyan]

Why do the news programmes presenters have to travel to the country where the main news stories are happening? Two days running now channel five have presented the news at five from Brussels. Nothing is happening there so why do they need to be there?

[Ken4155]

It's not something that i've ever questioned, to be totally honest, but it could be so that they may have instant access to any breaking news and interview any eye-witnesses without relying on local tv stations an maybe even translators.

[Gavmacp]

I have never understood reporters going out in bad weather, especially when they are telling you not to take unnecessary journeys.

[Ken4155]

^^
Don't suppose they volunteer for those gigs. Paper, scissors, stone perhaps?:-)

[newpotato]

Most big news networks have a foreign correspondent in and around certain areas for when something happens.

[Kathyan]

Channel five have a guy who hops around the EU, but this is the woman who normally sits in the studio! Why she has to be there I don't know.