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moulesy
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edited March 2018 in General Chat #1

Am I the only one struggling to understand why broadcasters are insisting on so many of their reporters standing out in cold and freezing conditions to tell us that .....er.....it's cold and freezing? Do they think we don't know what snow covered roads look like? Or how cold it feels without seeing some poor person standing out there looking thoroughly cheesed off? And presumably these reporters have driven out with a camera crew in spite of any "do not travel" warnings? Makes no sense to me for one!

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  • Wherenext
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    edited March 2018 #2

    Robert Hall's wife must hate the phone call from the BBC. He must have really cheesed some bigwig off.

  • Wherenext
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    edited March 2018 #3

    I was hoping that at least one of the reporters would have asked one of the motorists stuck on the M80

    "So, why were so stupid to have ignored the warning not to venture out?"

  • brue
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    edited March 2018 #4

    Not only that Moulesy they seem to take their hats away! Reporter torture. wink

  • Tinwheeler
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    edited March 2018 #5

    Our local weather man seemed to have been sent out into the studio garden to do a report. undecided

  • HelenandTrevor
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    edited March 2018 #6

    On our local news, reporter on M27  said it had taken her over an hour an a half to do a 20 minute journey to show us 3 lanes of motorway  covered in snow! yell 

  • brue
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    edited March 2018 #7

    No doubt there'll be a report from Dartmoor tomorrow, even though no one is there. wink

  • neveramsure
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    edited March 2018 #8

    One reporter on the local news went out with a meals on wheels service, he didn't impress me but I am very impressed with any service that visits the elderly in these conditions. Some of the customers live in isolated locations and are reliant on the visits from the meal services.

  • brue
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    edited March 2018 #9

    I did that for a couple of years in Scotland, it was very difficult in the hill snow but I always got there and was often the only visitor. Good to see the reporter showing this type of service. smile

  • Wherenext
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    edited March 2018 #10

    Isn't it wonderful that we need severe weather to remind us to call in on the vulnerable and elderly? Or that we only need to think about the homeless in bad weather? Thank goodness for the severe weather eh?

  • Tinwheeler
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    edited March 2018 #11

    There was one tonight pointing out the cars driving across the Moor when they’d been warned not to venture out. So how did the reporter get there? Hmm. surprised

  • Spriddler
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    edited March 2018 #12

    I really appreciate the reports or I'd have gone out this morning without a coat on to walk the dog.

  • brue
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    edited March 2018 #13

    Good, true to form then TW. I wonder where they'll pop up tomorrow? wink

  • Tammygirl
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    edited March 2018 #14

    Especially the one who set off from Aberdeen after the Red Alert, then moaned he'd been stuck there all night.

    Can't repeat what I shouted at the TV on here.embarassed

  • DavidKlyne
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    edited March 2018 #15

    I would rather have wall to wall coverage of our current weather than any coverage of the Donald!!!

    David

  • allanandjean
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    edited March 2018 #16

    So David which leaves you cold,numb shaking your head in disbelief and wanting a change before long??!

  • nelliethehooker
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    edited March 2018 #17

    There was an interview with a young gay who got stuck heading for a boxing match between a couple of his friends. When asked if he thought that it was necessary to travel after all the warnings he insisted that it was as they were his friends that were fighting!!!

  • Tinwheeler
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    edited March 2018 #18

    Bit of a typo there, Nellie. embarassed laughing

  • nelliethehooker
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    edited March 2018 #19

    Are you sure?wink

  • MaggieR
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    edited March 2018 #20

    Also, why do they never wear hats when they're outside in freezing conditions???

  • ABM
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    edited March 2018 #21

    10  pm  news  on  now,  Laura  Kuesenberg ( ?spelling ? )   is  outside  now  in  London  -  blinking  20  to  the  dozen,  hair  thrashing  fit  to  flog  a  yak,  giving  her  view  on  politics   and  in  a  howling gale  --  utterly  crackers !!  Previous  comments  on  here  apply surprised  yell !

  • EasyT
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    edited March 2018 #22

    What annoys me is when they give the weather for 'Wales' as if the whole 175 miles length had the same weather!

  • Oneputt
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    edited March 2018 #23

    I rarely watch the weather forecast particularly in the van, as we don't have a tellysurprised Both at home and in the van I use Metcheck and just enter the town we are closest too.laughing

  • Oneputt
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    edited March 2018 #24

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/in-pictures-43241176

  • SteveL
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    edited March 2018 #25

    Is it perhaps a way for the BBC to earn extra revenue by providing advertising under the radar to North Face, Rab, Berghaus etc.😉 

    Yes I also think it mad, they send  our local weather girl outside the studio in the cold to do the pre bits, and then let her in for the forecast, once she has reached a nice shade of blue. At least more of the women seem to wear hats / hoods. Some of the men don't even have much insulating thatch. Crazy. 

     

  • JollyKernow
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    edited March 2018 #26

    After the gender pay gap exposure recently which showed us the very large sums these people are paid, Is it do you think, a way of showing us that they are worth these big fat salaries they all seem to be on? yellsurprised

    JK

  • Cornersteady
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    edited March 2018 #27

    found this sums it up here

    it's snowing and I've run out of things to say...

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