18:21 on 2022-4-8 - the half-way-through headline summary:
Rocket hits station in Ukraine. Many killed.
Grand National Weekend.
On Fri, 8 Apr 2022 18:23:42 +0100, "J. P. Gilliver (John)"
<G6JPG@255soft.uk> wrote:
18:21 on 2022-4-8 - the half-way-through headline summary:
Rocket hits station in Ukraine. Many killed.
Grand National Weekend.
Summary of what, by whom and in what context? If it was the subtitles
on BBC News Channel or Sky News, it could be perfectly reasonable.
On Mon, 11 Apr 2022 at 20:57:23, Scott <newsgroups@gefion.myzen.co.uk>
wrote (my responses usually FOLLOW):
On Fri, 8 Apr 2022 18:23:42 +0100, "J. P. Gilliver (John)" >><G6JPG@255soft.uk> wrote:
18:21 on 2022-4-8 - the half-way-through headline summary:
Rocket hits station in Ukraine. Many killed.
Grand National Weekend.
Summary of what, by whom and in what context? If it was the subtitles
on BBC News Channel or Sky News, it could be perfectly reasonable.
Half way through (OK, a bit more than half way that day) the 6 p. m.
news, they put headlines on screen, just like they do at the start of
the prog.; I assume it's for the parts of the world that have an ad.
break there, and it's how they come back after the break. Pictures of >devastation with "Ukraine station bombed" or similar words over them
(and a voice saying more or less the same, adding many killed), followed >immediately - I mean after between 2 and 5 seconds - with shots of the >racecourse, and on-screen and voiceover words about that.
Well, _I_ thought it was insensitive. (Even in "normal" times, I
wouldn't have considered a horse race to really be a news headline, but >certainly not there.)
On Mon, 11 Apr 2022 21:45:15 +0100, "J. P. Gilliver (John)" ><G6JPG@255soft.uk> wrote:
On Mon, 11 Apr 2022 at 20:57:23, Scott <newsgroups@gefion.myzen.co.uk> >>wrote (my responses usually FOLLOW):
On Fri, 8 Apr 2022 18:23:42 +0100, "J. P. Gilliver (John)" >>><G6JPG@255soft.uk> wrote:
18:21 on 2022-4-8 - the half-way-through headline summary:
Rocket hits station in Ukraine. Many killed.
Grand National Weekend.
Summary of what, by whom and in what context? If it was the subtitles
on BBC News Channel or Sky News, it could be perfectly reasonable.
Half way through (OK, a bit more than half way that day) the 6 p. m.
news, they put headlines on screen, just like they do at the start of
the prog.; I assume it's for the parts of the world that have an ad.
break there, and it's how they come back after the break. Pictures of >>devastation with "Ukraine station bombed" or similar words over them
(and a voice saying more or less the same, adding many killed), followed >>immediately - I mean after between 2 and 5 seconds - with shots of the >>racecourse, and on-screen and voiceover words about that.
Well, _I_ thought it was insensitive. (Even in "normal" times, I
wouldn't have considered a horse race to really be a news headline, but >>certainly not there.)
Which news programme, which broadcaster? What are you on about?
I would expect a summary to include each of the items in the news
broadcast in a shortened form. A clue lies in the name.
Yes, it would indeed be reasonable to expect a summary to list the items coming up. I just thought the running order - of the headlines - was
rather unfeeling (as well as thinking the latter was too specific -
"we'll have sports headlines" maybe; but that's just symptomatic of monostoryism). I can't remember if the subsequent _features_ ran the
station disaster feature right next to the Grand National one - I don't _think_ they did.
Would a story about *any* sport, immediately following one about the
Ukraine War, be insensitive?
Should there be a "buffer zone" of a fairly neutral story - maybe
something political that doesn't involve scandal - in between?
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