Susanna Reid on air discomfort Sat 21/1/12
mychmose
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Did anybody watch Breakfast yesyerday morning? Susanna, between about 8 and 9 was visibly uncomfortable and was really struggling to keep it together. She fluffed her lines a few times. Was she in pain?
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Over 24 hours later I'm struggling to remember tbh
Yes
I saw her having the fit of the giggles with Miranda but I think that was on Friday
I find watching this airhead painful.
True. She is the worst presenter after Bill Turnball for trying to dominate, and then just being an air head.
if it wasnt for the perv brigade im sure she wouldnt be so popular.
if it wasn't for the bore brigade she'd be even more popular.
Take your point but she is much less affected than Sian Williams.
She shat herself
Susannah is not an airhead or someone just to ogle, she is incredibly intelligent.
She reads autocue and can't even do that right half the time, let's not get ahead of ourselves here proclaiming anyone that can't even do that properly most of the time incredibly intelligent. Next you'll be recommending Wayne Rooney for spatial physics consultations with Brian Cox because he can kick a ball at the right time in the right direction and so therefore must implicitly understand the nature of all natural progression.
If she was in pain may I be the first one to offer to rub it better.
It seems to be the standard insult now to accuse someone of "reading an autocue" and somehow that is considered to show a lack of intelligence though just about every world leader frequently reads an autocue.
A live programme like the breakfast ones will have its running order changing all the time and at short notice. The presenters will often need to follow a prepared script to lead into a report so it can be cued in correctly. It's quite possible that they have not seen the script before for some items.
Perhaps we should revert to the old days when people crawled around on the floor pushing pieces of paper into the hands of presenters or big telephones on the desk for them to answer.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/breakfast/5117192.stm
Back to the actual thread question: she was fine on Saturday between 6am and 7am, and was fine on Sunday morning at 6am.
Are you mad? Sian Williams is a scrawny lollipop headed Nancy Reagan look a like clone.
Yep, the tired old 'autocue' line. I guess some people want news readers to ad-lib the whole news inbetween reading poetry and juggling whilst riding a mono-cycle.
Being able to read does not make you intelligent, merely capably literate.
Are you seriously comparing the duties of a newsreader to a nationally elected government representative?
Whats your next trick, comparing ditch diggers to the people drilling the ocean bed for oil?
How about the kids that built a go kart to the Ferrari F1 engineering team?
Come on, pull the other one, it's got bells on it. Most 8 years olds can stand up and read something out loud from something in front of them. I'm not going to go around suggesting the majority of 8 year olds are highly intelligent on that basis.
So what exactly are you expecting a news reader to do?
Mike Aspel has a nice story about that from the Alexandra Palace days. The phone on the desk had not been used for months and months. He was live on air and suddenly heard it ringing but couldn't work out where it was at first. Apparently one of the cleaners had put it in a drawer in the desk. Eventually he found it and pulled it out - by which time it had stopped ringing. So he simply said ''I've told you not to ring me at work dear'' and put the phone down.:eek:
It is just that some one here seem to consider that using an autocue is a sign of ignorance or inability to do their job. It is just a tool of the trade like the earpiece getting instructions from the producer (does that prove inability as well?) and the computer on the desk in front of them.
I just pointed out that many people use autocues now.
No one doubts the ability of many people to read something out. What is more difficult is to read something out whilst someone is shouting in your ear, perhaps someone alongside speaking to you and someone else in front waving something at you. All quite likely to happen in a live TV environment as they trying to lead into the next item which has been cued correctly for someone on the other end of a satellite link to know when to start speaking.
I don't watch breakfast programmes very often but whenever I have seen her she seems quite a competent presenter but I am sure you think that you can do the job far better.
She scrubs up well though