Tuesday, November 20, 2007

SCOOP

CNC 3 you scooped the other tv stations at lunch time with your news of the interrogation of the woman who snatched baby Jeremiah.
TV6 started their newscast 7 minutes late. What was the problem? And then they began (as usual) with murder; granted it was three murders this time. But where was the context?

Way into their newscast, TV6's Fabian Pierre read the story about the police making a sketch of the baby snatcher available, and he even said "Anyone with information on the whereabouts of the suspect should contact the police." Laughable because she was being questioned since 6-30am. At least Fabian mentioned this fact in the "Look Ahead" segment, after someone probably listened to CNC 3 and got the info.

Sandra Maharaj as usual you look and sound good, but today there was just a little too much contouring of your cheeks. Can't remember what your lead story was, but you had that Geoffrey Henderson interview about white collar crime (as well as CNC).

Nathalie Chrysostom you gave a good synopsis of the PSA WASA rep's allegations against Jennifer Baptiste-Primus, but you did not get her response. You used a sound bite from him which said "...her actions are lawless". But your story ended without even the cursory "All efforts to reach Mrs Baptiste-Primus for a comment proved futile". Did your producer insist that you get both sides of the story before it was aired?