marksi wrote:So... it appears CDD wants there to be a BBC journalist in every street
The earthquake wasn't localised to one street, surprisingly.
marksi wrote:which would negate the reliance on the public to report stories
It depends what kind of story. An obscure story has to be public relied-upon; a very evident story like this shouldn't require the 'public' to notify them.
marksi wrote:and also expects the few people around at 1am to have an in-depth knowledge of every conceivable subject
Of course the people around at 1am don't necessarily know in great detail about earthquakes. However, they should be high-quality
journalists, meaning they should have the capability to search qualified web sites and access real-time resources very effectively. I think I expect this from the country's premier news organisation.
At the very least, they should be able to get more information than me more quickly than me - no?
marksi wrote:and be able to produce a fully-detailed report on the piece within 15 minutes. Yes?
Sort of. What I think is not too unreasonable is:
- A few minutes after the event (maybe 2/3?), something on the site with "more information to follow". They've done this before, I've seen it.
- A gradual build up of information to the best of the present journalists' ability if the story breaks late at night
- And lots of resources dedicated to that instead of just lingering and providign no real information for a few hours.
I'm actually not criticising the quality of the final article, which I think is very in-depth and detailed. Also, I didn't watch BBC News Live, but I find their television networks very good at getting breaking news rapidly. I just feel let down by their online performance which was, as I said earlier, almost devoid of content (honestly... I mean for a few hours it imparted no more knowledge than "there has been an earthquake in xyz") until the morning.
I do like the BBC's journalism and generally it is of very high quality, which is why I get so annoyed when I go to a resource I think I can rely on for information, and instead get less than I had found out myself.
