News prop
Nice to see that the problem with glorified news readers isn’t limited just to the U.S. Here’s a BBC anchor holding a ream of paper he had mistaken for an iPad. Yes, he made a mistake in grabbing the wrong thing — but what was the point of the iPad anyway, if it wasn’t necessary for this bit. The ream of paper seems to work equally well. The missing iPad, then, is revealed for what it was going to be all along: a prop that says “we’re au currant.”
September 23rd, 2013 at 8:36 am
Please, don’t get me started. Even Al Jazeeera English has decended into that. Everything looks like it’s an ABC affiliate in Butte or Helena, Montana. Oy, is it to laugh? TV sucks right now. Bring back Captain Kangaroo on CBS in the early morning, he could do the stocks better than CNBC. It would be so much fun to get the news from Mr. Moose, I loved him so much. That was 50 years ago or more.
November 30th, 2013 at 9:44 am
Clicked on your link. Went to YouTube. No video, but this banner:
“This video has been removed as a viiolation of YouTube’s policy against spam, scams and commercially deceptive content.”
Do you suppose the “commercially deceptive content” was the newscaster pretending his pad of paper was an iPad?
December 7th, 2013 at 3:42 pm
I’ve plugged in a new version. Thanks for the heads-up.