BTW, Jon Oliver killed the Ukraine story last night. Especially his take on George Bush’s condemnation of Putin for unjustified invasion of another country.
On Sun, 27 Feb 2022 at 1:46 PM PGage <[email protected]> wrote: > I am wondering how the list thinks TV News has been covering the Invasion, > and if any outlets have shown themselves to be particularly strong or weak. > > I have been following on TV mostly with CNN and BBC, with some MSNBC and > ABC. Online I have been using Twitter, which has a lot more information, > but a higher ratio of it is unreliable. > > It seems to me CNN still rules when it comes to stories like this (and I > almost never watch them for regular news). I suppose their foreign bureaus > are not as well staffed as the past, but it seems they still have more > people on the ground than the other outlets. I still mostly switch them off > when it comes to panels. > > MSNBC has Richard Engles, who is great, but they seem to mostly be > repeating reportage from others. I do still like their approach to panels - > gathering print journalists to discuss their work, though that is less > valuable on an actual breaking story 5000 miles away. > > The BBC (it seems like we are getting their world feed or whatever they > call it via BBCA) is lower key, but also seems to have boots on the ground. > It’s harder for me to tell what is live and what is delayed, which is > irritating. > > What would happen if there were no more “linear” television outlets on > stories like these? I read the papers often during the day, and the AP, and > Twitter, but there would be a huge hole without television news > organizations with ongoing assets in the field. Will Amazon or Hulu be > doing that down the road? I guess I will have to get CNN+ > -- > Sent from Gmail Mobile > -- Sent from Gmail Mobile -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAKGtkYLSQAXEEhoiuJOC1KEcVkBMJJgNczYmNQ1LFwEn6OpnVw%40mail.gmail.com.
