CARNIVAL TUESDAY NEWS

TV6's Carnival Tuesday night news coverage was a big improvement over Monday night. (However once again Samantha failed to tell her viewers where her co-anchor Cherise was).

Charlene Stuart had a live interview with Brian McFarlane on his 'Earth' presentation. She gave some background to the presentation then she launched into her questions. Then after the interview, she also gave a synopsis of some of the bands that had passed by the Queen's Park Savannah.

Then they went to Sasha Mohammed at Adam Smith Square, who was happy to jump up and down with the masqueraders. Sasha, you have to keep it professional. Do your job, report objectively on what's happening and let the masqueraders do their job.

Next up was Fabian Pierre at South Quay. He looked confused and scared especially when a very tall man jumped into his personal space, but he kept going.
Neither he nor Sasha gave a synopsis of the day's events or even of some of the bands that had passed by where they were stationed. So it seemed that they were reporting in a vacuum.

Then we had Keisha David's story on the parade of bands and the minute of silence for DJ Lalo. Well it looked like Keisha took that literally to mean that she should include the minute of silence in her story as well, because we did not hear any audio for about 20 seconds, then the director cut back to Samantha who said "We do apologize about that." What does that mean?

Golda Lee at C News looked very gloomy and matronly in that black suit, black inner piece and the spectacles with her hair pulled back in a stiff schoolmarm bun. Samantha John also chose to wear black, but strangely enough she punctuated it with a blue necklace.

Well C News thanks for showing us video of the Carnival celebrations as you went to each break during the newscast. But.
There was no editing, so the video just went on and on, with the recorded audio of the live presenter over it. Very distracting and confusing.

Sandra Maharaj that was a nice story about the brothers who create body art. but at some points there was duplication of the intro to the soundbites and what was actually said by the interviewees.

At the end of the newscasts, both C News and TV6 gave us unedited video of the day's events. TV6 had a piece from McFarlane's award-winning band, it went on and on, and C News picked a piece with the cameraman trying to fix his focus. Unfortunate.

Overall mixed review of the Carnival 2K8 coverage.
Some creative ideas, but there is always room for improvement.