There was a woman reporter at some refugee camp somewhere, who went to a local hospital to inspect the people who had had limbs blown off because they had taken refuge in a place which had previously been sown with land-mines, and I swear to God the wretched crone was cooing at them. “How old are you? Nine? And you’ve had your hand blown off? Aaaawwwww.”
She sounded as if she were congratulating a six-year-old American beauty queen on the mother’s day card she’d made. It made me feel sick. But when is it ever appropriate to coo on a news programme? Is it ever appropriate to coo on a news programme?
I have been thinking more on this. There are also some presenters with such mournful voices that I don’t quite believe them when they are talking about something nice - am thinking of the likes of Orla Guerin here
Many programmes are recycled these days, so you might hear it 3 times in a week, if you are unlucky…
But, Chris, that is the first time I have heard any cooing from Lyce. How are reporters meant to convey the horrors to an audience that is, seemingly, inured to the usual bald-stated factual stuff?
Soo xx
Frankly, like Sue Lloyd-Roberts and Kate Adie before her I am suspicious. Orla Guerin gives the game away with that surname.
Do they go places where bad things happen and report on them … or are they the perps ? Seems too much like a coincidence to me that wherever they go devastation is wreaked.
