Well finally we are seeing some night action from TV6!
Media Watch was pleasantly surprised to see live pictures from the PNM political meeting in St James, wih reporter Karen Cozier Phillip. Better late than never. Karen you seemed a bit nervous, but practice will make you much better.
OK Six, looking forward to seeing more, so please don't disappoint your viewers.
Thursday, November 1, 2007
Wednesday, October 31, 2007
HMMMM!
Media Watch has been quietly observing that Bobbi Jeffrey-Hicks of TV6's Extra has been doing very well for herself. The show itself still needs work (but just one week to go), but Bobbi has shown improvement in her presentation, she's quite fluent in her reading, and she wears what suits her.
Watch yourselves girls. New kid on the block.
Watch yourselves girls. New kid on the block.
ELECTION DISCUSSIONS
Kudos to Andy Johnson for what Media Watch will call his "on the road" series: going to the communities and asking for their input in the election discussions. The session at the Hugh Wooding Law School was especially informative, as was the session with university students some weeks ago. And Dr Job "gave Jack his jacket". The special pieces as well in the morning are informative. But Miss Stuart, please ask your editor not to use talking head shots of the political leaders over someone else's voice. It's distracting and confusing.
Robert Clarke over at Gayelle, your piece on the two cousins contesting the Barataria/San Juan seat comes three weeks after TV6's Fayola Bostik and IETV's Nadine Hackett ran the same feature.
Magella was very gracious in accepting a bit of criticism from a caller on Cock a doodle doo, which she co-hosts with Dennis McComie. The caller said she listens too little and speaks too much. Dennis looked a bit exasperated and the nail in the coffin was when the caller referred to him as Errol Fabien. He promptly hit the receiver on the telephone.
And Keith Clifford where have you been all weekend? The talk of the town has been the trip to South Africa by Basdeo Panday and Jack Warner to "meet" with Nelson Mandela. The ad was played during a break on your morning show, and the well-informed Cordielle referred to it. What did you say? "I did not see it and I don't want to make an uninformed comment on the issue." So Keith wants to take a look at it then call up Jack Warner and have him clarify once again the purpose of the trip and the outcome. Good luck. Even the South Africa Times has the issue splashed across its pages on Sunday. Where have you been? Anyway, here's the site for your info.
http://www.thetimes.co.za/PrintEdition/News/Article.aspx?id=598437
And to all the reporters in this country, why didn't any of you do the requisite background checking before running Jack Warner's side of the story wholesale when he returned from his "meeting"? You were all scooped by a South African writer.
Robert Clarke over at Gayelle, your piece on the two cousins contesting the Barataria/San Juan seat comes three weeks after TV6's Fayola Bostik and IETV's Nadine Hackett ran the same feature.
Magella was very gracious in accepting a bit of criticism from a caller on Cock a doodle doo, which she co-hosts with Dennis McComie. The caller said she listens too little and speaks too much. Dennis looked a bit exasperated and the nail in the coffin was when the caller referred to him as Errol Fabien. He promptly hit the receiver on the telephone.
And Keith Clifford where have you been all weekend? The talk of the town has been the trip to South Africa by Basdeo Panday and Jack Warner to "meet" with Nelson Mandela. The ad was played during a break on your morning show, and the well-informed Cordielle referred to it. What did you say? "I did not see it and I don't want to make an uninformed comment on the issue." So Keith wants to take a look at it then call up Jack Warner and have him clarify once again the purpose of the trip and the outcome. Good luck. Even the South Africa Times has the issue splashed across its pages on Sunday. Where have you been? Anyway, here's the site for your info.
http://www.thetimes.co.za/PrintEdition/News/Article.aspx?id=598437
And to all the reporters in this country, why didn't any of you do the requisite background checking before running Jack Warner's side of the story wholesale when he returned from his "meeting"? You were all scooped by a South African writer.
STRIKING A BLOW
CNMG again leading the way with campaign coverage. The station went with live video from TWO locations on Monday evening, from the COP and UNC meetings. Where is the competition?
MORNING NEWS (AND HOSTS)
Well, well Jessie Mae Ventour of CNMG, looks like you had a very good night's sleep after you ended your early morning and lunch time shift yesterday. You are bright and bubbly in red and white, they have definitely adjusted the lighting on you and the rapport between you and Fazeer is excellent.
Keisha David you also look nice in bright blue and white outside City Gate. Not sure if we like the earrings and necklace combo though. Just keep the earrings.
And over at CNC, Cordielle Street looks exasperated and bored by Keith Clifford, who went into a looong monologue before they looked at the newspapers. Well Cordielle, Media Watch is exasperated too.
CNMG's news lead at 6am was a Chaguanas man was shot to death in Port of Spain late last night, but TV6's lead was that the UNC leader Basdeo Panday wants to set up a young offenders court if his party wins the election. TV6 went on and on with the UNC, six sound bites in all, a total of six minutes, then a sound bite from the prime minister about a blood feud. What about the COP meeting last night? Not a word about that.
CNC as well went on and on with Hazel Manning and schools, then a package from Marcia Braveboy on Flow's new cable charges. Why did you need to replay that entire story? Free ads for Flow's broadband cable.
And TV6, whose idea was it to start the Morning Edition right off with the news? There's no welcome from the hosts, so just imagine walking straight into someone's home and sitting down to have breakfast without even saying good morning to the people who own the house. And we don't see Andy Johnson and Dr Morgan Job until 6:18. By then your competitors have already got into the meat of their first interviews.
Keisha David you also look nice in bright blue and white outside City Gate. Not sure if we like the earrings and necklace combo though. Just keep the earrings.
And over at CNC, Cordielle Street looks exasperated and bored by Keith Clifford, who went into a looong monologue before they looked at the newspapers. Well Cordielle, Media Watch is exasperated too.
CNMG's news lead at 6am was a Chaguanas man was shot to death in Port of Spain late last night, but TV6's lead was that the UNC leader Basdeo Panday wants to set up a young offenders court if his party wins the election. TV6 went on and on with the UNC, six sound bites in all, a total of six minutes, then a sound bite from the prime minister about a blood feud. What about the COP meeting last night? Not a word about that.
CNC as well went on and on with Hazel Manning and schools, then a package from Marcia Braveboy on Flow's new cable charges. Why did you need to replay that entire story? Free ads for Flow's broadband cable.
And TV6, whose idea was it to start the Morning Edition right off with the news? There's no welcome from the hosts, so just imagine walking straight into someone's home and sitting down to have breakfast without even saying good morning to the people who own the house. And we don't see Andy Johnson and Dr Morgan Job until 6:18. By then your competitors have already got into the meat of their first interviews.
Tuesday, October 30, 2007
QUESTIONS
Simone Harris over at CNMG, "How do you feel about that?" can only be asked so many times without getting idiotic responses.
Your interview with COP candidate Danny Solomon was a classic example. You told him he and the PNM's Gary Hunte are new to politics, then asked "How do you feel about that?". He said he does not feel threatened and boasted about all those one on one meetings with community leaders. He lambasted Mr Hunte for not walking around enough to meet with residents, yet one of Mr Solomon's own colleagues recently said the candidate should not have to walk around; the community should come to him/her. Why no challenge on that?
Next, you said "There's been a lot of campaign violence happening. How do you feel about that?" Well how do you expect him to feel?
Then, "What do you think about your political leader Winston Dookeran?". Surely you were expecting him to say he thinks Mr Dookeran is a bad leader and will lose the election?
Then you moved on to St Ann's being a PNM safe seat, and you piped up with "...they've been in power for almost forever." (Yes people, that is verbatim.) Well Simone your forever seems to have a ten year gap.
And you seemed to be on the defensive against all Mr Solomon's statements about the PNM. At one point Media Watch felt as if YOU were a PNM candidate and Mr Solomon was the interviewer.
Then he said the British government HAS Trinidad and Tobago on a list of countries not to visit; you did not correct him, since that travel advice was lifted months ago.
At the end of the interview you said about his constituency "...I think it's a PNM stronghold." Your OPINION is not important Simone. You are the interviewer and you are supposed to KNOW.
Then you said "I'm Simone Harris and I'm out." Steups!
Once again Simone, your interviewing skills are very weak and you need to do much more research before you interview anyone else. Hopefully your bosses are monitoring your lack of progress on this show. You'd better stick to being "Judge Dredd".
Your interview with COP candidate Danny Solomon was a classic example. You told him he and the PNM's Gary Hunte are new to politics, then asked "How do you feel about that?". He said he does not feel threatened and boasted about all those one on one meetings with community leaders. He lambasted Mr Hunte for not walking around enough to meet with residents, yet one of Mr Solomon's own colleagues recently said the candidate should not have to walk around; the community should come to him/her. Why no challenge on that?
Next, you said "There's been a lot of campaign violence happening. How do you feel about that?" Well how do you expect him to feel?
Then, "What do you think about your political leader Winston Dookeran?". Surely you were expecting him to say he thinks Mr Dookeran is a bad leader and will lose the election?
Then you moved on to St Ann's being a PNM safe seat, and you piped up with "...they've been in power for almost forever." (Yes people, that is verbatim.) Well Simone your forever seems to have a ten year gap.
And you seemed to be on the defensive against all Mr Solomon's statements about the PNM. At one point Media Watch felt as if YOU were a PNM candidate and Mr Solomon was the interviewer.
Then he said the British government HAS Trinidad and Tobago on a list of countries not to visit; you did not correct him, since that travel advice was lifted months ago.
At the end of the interview you said about his constituency "...I think it's a PNM stronghold." Your OPINION is not important Simone. You are the interviewer and you are supposed to KNOW.
Then you said "I'm Simone Harris and I'm out." Steups!
Once again Simone, your interviewing skills are very weak and you need to do much more research before you interview anyone else. Hopefully your bosses are monitoring your lack of progress on this show. You'd better stick to being "Judge Dredd".
COUNTING DOWN
Well it's countdown time for the elections campaigns, and this week all the media houses will be pulling out all the stops to show who is number one in elections coverage.
CNMG is still leading the way by the look of things, with live coverage of the COP rally in Sangre Grande. Paid political time, but coverage all the same. WIN TV also went live to COP, with IETV taking their feed. And I95 got in on the action with coverage of the PNM meeting.
Even Synergy is trying to get in on the action, with promised interviews with the main political leaders this week.
Monday night CNC 3 had Shelly Dass on the Big Story with Mervyn Assam, and TV6 had Heroes.
One week left Six.
CNMG is still leading the way by the look of things, with live coverage of the COP rally in Sangre Grande. Paid political time, but coverage all the same. WIN TV also went live to COP, with IETV taking their feed. And I95 got in on the action with coverage of the PNM meeting.
Even Synergy is trying to get in on the action, with promised interviews with the main political leaders this week.
Monday night CNC 3 had Shelly Dass on the Big Story with Mervyn Assam, and TV6 had Heroes.
One week left Six.
GET SOME SLEEP
Sunil Ramdeen and Jessie Mae Ventour seem to be suffering from a lack of sleep during this hectic political season. Jessie read the midday news on C and she looked like she was about to fall asleep. She co-hosts First Up with Fazeer Mohammed so we're guessing she has to be at work by 4am, so midday is really the end of her shift. She looked really tired, and her face was shiny, as if she was called up to read the news at the last minute.
Then Sunil is "chief cook and bottle washer" over at WIN TV. He does a morning show, a night talk show, plus he reads the news and he is the Head of News. But then again, it's expected that you'll be working a bit harder since your newsroom has been depleted.
By the time he got to the sport stories on the midday news, he was reading so slowly we thought he was slurring.
Media Watch is hoping you'll be popping lots of vits in the coming days because your station promos say that WIN TV will be going live to the three political party headquarters on election night next Monday. How are you going to split yourself?
And Sunil while you're at it, can you try to have someone record a clean feed of your political meetings? You showed a repeat of Winston Dookeran's speech in Sangre Grande on Monday night, and the location and "LIVE" were stamped on the top left hand corner of the screen. The video looked like it was recorded off the tv on BetaCam. Why didn't you just get the cameraman to record the speech for play back? Then when you went to Patrick Manning's speech on the hustings on Monday night, the video was perfectly clean. Why the discrepancy?
One more thing. Your sports reporter, Kent Fuentes needs to be taught how to write to pictures. His story on Roger Boynes went on and on, but for the first 30 seconds, we heard Kent's voice and saw Roger Boynes sitting at the press conference talking (no sound from Boynes), so it looked like Boynes was having an out-of-body experience. Then at one point Kent said "Speaking at this afternoon's press conference...", and this bit was repeated. No one caught that in the editing process or when it first aired on Monday night? And why did you choose to repeat the story in its entirety at noon the next day? You really need some sleep Sunil.
Then Sunil is "chief cook and bottle washer" over at WIN TV. He does a morning show, a night talk show, plus he reads the news and he is the Head of News. But then again, it's expected that you'll be working a bit harder since your newsroom has been depleted.
By the time he got to the sport stories on the midday news, he was reading so slowly we thought he was slurring.
Media Watch is hoping you'll be popping lots of vits in the coming days because your station promos say that WIN TV will be going live to the three political party headquarters on election night next Monday. How are you going to split yourself?
And Sunil while you're at it, can you try to have someone record a clean feed of your political meetings? You showed a repeat of Winston Dookeran's speech in Sangre Grande on Monday night, and the location and "LIVE" were stamped on the top left hand corner of the screen. The video looked like it was recorded off the tv on BetaCam. Why didn't you just get the cameraman to record the speech for play back? Then when you went to Patrick Manning's speech on the hustings on Monday night, the video was perfectly clean. Why the discrepancy?
One more thing. Your sports reporter, Kent Fuentes needs to be taught how to write to pictures. His story on Roger Boynes went on and on, but for the first 30 seconds, we heard Kent's voice and saw Roger Boynes sitting at the press conference talking (no sound from Boynes), so it looked like Boynes was having an out-of-body experience. Then at one point Kent said "Speaking at this afternoon's press conference...", and this bit was repeated. No one caught that in the editing process or when it first aired on Monday night? And why did you choose to repeat the story in its entirety at noon the next day? You really need some sleep Sunil.
KUDOS
Kudos to Cordielle Street, Asha Javeed, Sheldon Yearwood, Natasha Nunez, Garth St. Clair, Charlene Stuart and Kimberley Castillo on their achievements in the PAHO Health Awards. Something for your colleagues to aspire to.
DECEIVED
Media Watch was a bit startled to hear the voice of CNMG's Jessie Mae Ventour on TV6 on Sunday evening. We thought she had jumped ship in the middle of the elections campaign. But then we realised she was just voicing an ad/promo for the ministry of the Attorney General. All part of the package?
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