Wednesday, December 26, 2007

BACK TO WORK

Now that you've had time to enjoy the ham, lamb and jam, it's time to get back to work.
On Christmas morning, TV6 gave us live interviews and Christmas music on their morning show, and was the only major station with lunchtime news.
Fabian Pierre, as compared with the maturity we see in your male colleagues at other stations, such as Sunil Ramdeen, Raymond Edwards, Satesh Mahabir and even Mark Bassant, you look decidedly immature on that News at Noon set; like a small child playing dress up.
Too much facial expression, too much head and hand movement.

Night news now.
CNMG's Sola James reported on slow Christmas sales in San Fernando. Has she relocated? She usually reports from Tobago.

Sammy Jo at TV6 had the night off, so Cherise read alone. But Cherise, what happened to the sot from Hazel Brown? You read a script that sounded as if a sound bite was coming up, but then it didn't and you did not apologize.
And later two stories on Mayaro residents dealing with flooding had the exact same video; the second story was also missing a soundbite at the end from the residents, but we heard none and you moved on without apologizing.
At least you apologized later when two soundbites from a dietitian did not come up. Either your editors are messing up or the person who rolls tape.

IETV had shots of Jack Warner's Chaguanas office which had been shot up by criminals; CNMG had the story, but used file video of Jack on the campaign trail.

TV6 why did we hear Elizabeth Williams Allard asking her question for the vox on shopping when Cherise had already read it? The vox should have started with the first response.
Alisha Nurse please pick up the pace. All your stories tend to sound the same: long and drawn out.
Shabaka Kambon, that country which borders Haiti is not pronounced "Dominica-n" Republic, but it's the "Do-mi-ni-can" Republic. Get it right. Dominica is not in Latin America.

Hema Ramkissoon reported on favourite toys for Christmas, but when she got to the point where she said "...Sesame Street characters and Dora the Explorer...", we did not see any matching video. Why? Couldn't find any shots of the elusive toys? You told us they were popular so you should have made the effort to show them, even grab some pictures off the net.