Well not in all cases. He did not know the maximum amount that savings in any one institution are guaranteed by the government for, and, worse, didn't warn that quite a few are linked together under the same FSA number (for example Halifax, Bank of Scotland, The AA, Saga, Birmingham Midshires and Intelligent Finance are all one and the same) and don't count as separate investments.
He was a print journalist when he joined the BBC so broadcasting was new to him. I've read an interview where he makes it clear that he knew that he wasn't the best on air. However I think that he has improved hugely since he first started and he is such an excellent journalist with a great reputation that I think that it has been worth staying with it through his broadcast learning curve.
I'm afraid that whenever he comes on I find myself reaching for the remote. His delivery and the way he pauses mid sentence or emphasise particular words for no reason just drives me mad. He may be a good journalist and has certainly had a number of scoops recently, but his presentation style is so irritating.
I, too, have to mute him (our Robert) whenever he 'delivers'.
I also have to mute the modern equivalent of 'smallprint' when I hear it; I refer to the gabbled 'rapidspeak' at the end of advertisements on the radio, you know, where 'termznkundishnsapply.'
And I also get very annoyed when listen ing to class icsfm and I hear Davidmellor speaking in hi s programme, "I fyo u liketha t you 'll liket his.
He break soff and then resumes his delivery and there is a most annoying split-second break at the en dof oneword and the be ginning of the nex tword in much the same way as I have been doing in typing this whining diatribe.
I have e-mailed him about it but he didn't reply; not surprised, really.
I am nearly 70 and so I am probably just a moaning old wotsit now, I know, and should probably just go away and die somewhere but all these things are so annoying.
As, too, (while I am on a 'whinge-binge') is the horrendous practice, of the modern generation. of finishing each sentence with a raised intonation as if a question were being asked.
Never mind..!
I am losing weight what with all the rushing to and from the radio to shut it up.
So it's not all bad..!
Keith.
SALFORD.
He is the best example of a bad reporter. When he on radio and is reading from a script he speaks with no pauses and no irritating emphasis on random words. Go live and then he stumbles, pauses and emphasises ridiculously. The sooner BBC take him off our screens the better. He is really bad.
I actually thought that he's been trying to moderate his speech pattern recently, and I wondered whether this was the result of feedback from BBC bosses, or just a dawning self awareness... I had no idea other people had noticed his up and down delivery - my husband thinks I'm imagining it, but there have been times when I haven't listened to the content of his reports, simply because I found his speech mannerisms so distracting.
The cynic in me initially thought he was doing it to 'get noticed', but now I'm not so sure, as someone on here seems to think he has a stammer, so perhaps he can't help it - either way I think he generally knows what he's talking about.
He not as funny as the Dale Winton lookalike they have on instead of Declan - I mean talk about leap out of the stockmarket closet...... he makes a VW camper van look macho.
Declan Curry takes over Working Lunch today (I think)
He not as funny as the Dale Winton lookalike they have on instead of Declan - I mean talk about leap out of the stockmarket closet...... he makes a VW camper van look macho.
You know, after posting a couple of times earlier in this thread, I am coming round to changing my view of Robert Peston after seeing him on the lunchtime news today.
I watched and listened to what he had to say and I am sure his delivery has changed - so much better!
I think Robert Peston's presentation style is eye-wateringly awful.
I've no doubt he's extremely knowledgeable about his subject, but the way he talks to camera smacks of a 6th former in a school media-studies production. He seems to be trying to look and sound 'like a real TV journalist' by overdoing all the hallmark journalistic inflections and speed changes, and this ridiculous wide-eyed staring at the camera.
If he were to concentrate more on what he's actually saying, rather than sticking out like a sore thumb trying to *sound* the part, we'd get a lot more out of his performance and be far less distracted.
The best reports leave the viewer knowing exactly what information the reporter wanted to impart, but without much memory of the way in which it was delivered.
I think Robert Peston's presentation style is eye-wateringly awful.
I've no doubt he's extremely knowledgeable about his subject, but the way he talks to camera smacks of a 6th former in a school media-studies production. He seems to be trying to look and sound 'like a real TV journalist' by overdoing all the hallmark journalistic inflections and speed changes, and this ridiculous wide-eyed staring at the camera.
Apparently, these "inflections and speed changes" are the techniques and side-effects that he uses to overcome the stammer from which he suffers.
If he were to concentrate more on what he's actually saying, rather than sticking out like a sore thumb trying to *sound* the part, we'd get a lot more out of his performance and be far less distracted.
If his "performance" is to get the rather complicated economics message across, I believe that he does it remarkably well.
Still, it seems that many cannot cope with his delivery. Some even seem to enjoy having "a figure of hate" to vilify.
Looks like I'm the only one who likes Robert Peston's idiosyncratic delivery style. In a world of Midwich Cuckoo TV presenters with all the charisma and humanity of a sun-dried dog turd, he at least is distinctive. The fact he makes the end of the financial world and the collapse of Capitalism sound like a wonky cassette recording is rather entertaining.
In a way he reminds me a bit of the Falklands War Voice of Doom, Iain Macdonald, who used to read the daily battle results for the MOD. He had a deliberately ponderous delivery style with odd pauses and rhythm which made what would otherwise be a very turgid (and tragic in some instances) dry press conference a bit more interesting. In the same way Robert Peston makes the financial news a bit more interesting which is going some as normally it is hatefully boring.
It's not really very nice to laugh at someone attempting to control a stammer. Do you laugh at the disabled too?
Could use a bit of work on that if that's the case then. If if if if if if if we did that on here, that that that would be equally annoy annoy annoy annoying. Not exactly BBBBBBBC English on the BBC News.
As I havent really watched him in any depth, I cant comment.
I DO notice via the papers however that many people in the banking world and govt/civil service are allegedly disconcerted that one journalist/broadcaster seems to have so much media sway...
Just been suffering more Robert Peston on the BBC News. While I am sure he is a very intelligent and knowledgable guy, his delivery is so distracting, irritating and annoying.
Please BBC, sort him out. He so reminds me of Gordon Brittas - speeding up, slowing down, increases and decreases in volume in unnatural ways, when he speaks.
BBC, I simply can't listen to him anymore. From now on, when he comes on, I will have to hit the mute button.
I find him OK on prepared or pre-recorded items but when............................. he .....................istalkingoffthecufffhe.uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuh ..hesitates..and and and thentalkssoquicklythatyoucannotunderstandwhatheis....uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuh.saying
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Well not in all cases. He did not know the maximum amount that savings in any one institution are guaranteed by the government for, and, worse, didn't warn that quite a few are linked together under the same FSA number (for example Halifax, Bank of Scotland, The AA, Saga, Birmingham Midshires and Intelligent Finance are all one and the same) and don't count as separate investments.
(Source: www.moneysavingexpert.com)
I, too, have to mute him (our Robert) whenever he 'delivers'.
I also have to mute the modern equivalent of 'smallprint' when I hear it; I refer to the gabbled 'rapidspeak' at the end of advertisements on the radio, you know, where 'termznkundishnsapply.'
And I also get very annoyed when listen ing to class icsfm and I hear Davidmellor speaking in hi s programme, "I fyo u liketha t you 'll liket his.
He break soff and then resumes his delivery and there is a most annoying split-second break at the en dof oneword and the be ginning of the nex tword in much the same way as I have been doing in typing this whining diatribe.
I have e-mailed him about it but he didn't reply; not surprised, really.
I am nearly 70 and so I am probably just a moaning old wotsit now, I know, and should probably just go away and die somewhere but all these things are so annoying.
As, too, (while I am on a 'whinge-binge') is the horrendous practice, of the modern generation. of finishing each sentence with a raised intonation as if a question were being asked.
Never mind..!
I am losing weight what with all the rushing to and from the radio to shut it up.
So it's not all bad..!
Keith.
SALFORD.
The cynic in me initially thought he was doing it to 'get noticed', but now I'm not so sure, as someone on here seems to think he has a stammer, so perhaps he can't help it - either way I think he generally knows what he's talking about.
He not as funny as the Dale Winton lookalike they have on instead of Declan - I mean talk about leap out of the stockmarket closet...... he makes a VW camper van look macho.
Declan Curry takes over Working Lunch today (I think)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/breakfast/presenters/7501571.stm
I think that it's next Monday actually (at least, I'm sure that's what he said during his last Breakfast stint).
I watched and listened to what he had to say and I am sure his delivery has changed - so much better!
I've no doubt he's extremely knowledgeable about his subject, but the way he talks to camera smacks of a 6th former in a school media-studies production. He seems to be trying to look and sound 'like a real TV journalist' by overdoing all the hallmark journalistic inflections and speed changes, and this ridiculous wide-eyed staring at the camera.
If he were to concentrate more on what he's actually saying, rather than sticking out like a sore thumb trying to *sound* the part, we'd get a lot more out of his performance and be far less distracted.
The best reports leave the viewer knowing exactly what information the reporter wanted to impart, but without much memory of the way in which it was delivered.
Spooley
If his "performance" is to get the rather complicated economics message across, I believe that he does it remarkably well.
Still, it seems that many cannot cope with his delivery. Some even seem to enjoy having "a figure of hate" to vilify.
I love Andrew Marr!!
In a way he reminds me a bit of the Falklands War Voice of Doom, Iain Macdonald, who used to read the daily battle results for the MOD. He had a deliberately ponderous delivery style with odd pauses and rhythm which made what would otherwise be a very turgid (and tragic in some instances) dry press conference a bit more interesting. In the same way Robert Peston makes the financial news a bit more interesting which is going some as normally it is hatefully boring.
Could use a bit of work on that if that's the case then. If if if if if if if we did that on here, that that that would be equally annoy annoy annoy annoying. Not exactly BBBBBBBC English on the BBC News.
He....learned his ...style...of presentation from William Shatner as..................Captain Kirk
Ha ha!:D
I DO notice via the papers however that many people in the banking world and govt/civil service are allegedly disconcerted that one journalist/broadcaster seems to have so much media sway...
Please BBC, sort him out. He so reminds me of Gordon Brittas - speeding up, slowing down, increases and decreases in volume in unnatural ways, when he speaks.
BBC, I simply can't listen to him anymore. From now on, when he comes on, I will have to hit the mute button.