Thursday, January 10, 2008

JUST A THOUGHT

We've had some feedback on one of the issues we pointed to recently.
It's been brought to our attention that television reporters are often asked to lend their voices to stories they did not write.
This of course puts them in a ticklish situation, since if their Head of News/Producer asks them to voice a story they can hardly refuse, and it's hardly likely they can make changes to the original script.
Well we hope that reporters speak up about this practice, because they often end up with egg on their faces when the finger is pointed at them for inaccuracies in the script or just poor scripting, when in fact all they did was voice someone else's work.
Media Watch suggests that Heads of News and or Producers can look at adding a super to each story not written by the person who voiced it, and it could say "Report compiled by...".