Channel 5 news review.

This will be a very short review, as the programme was okay but nothing much stood out as bad, and not much stood out as being particularly good. The anchor was stood up instead of being sat behind a desk. This is an issue for me; it's not modern to have the anchor nauseatingly wandering around the studio, this seems to be the next step beyond channel 4's more relaxed approach, but for me it's a step too far. The news should be entirely content based, so there isn't a need for the anchor to take centre stage, nor does it add to the experience in any way. It seems that this revolution in presentation also confused those behind the camera as after the adverts, there was an especially outstanding flaw where the camera showed a far off profile view of the anchor staring into the wrong camera, not only did this view appear, it lingered for an uncomfortable number of seconds. A feature that could have been avoided, had the anchor been behind a desk, or even stood still rather than wandering around the studio by themselves.

The flood story were good, not including the interview with the man supposedly stuck in his house, being interviewed from about twenty feet away, by the journalist who was stood on a garden wall! (this I haven't decided whether it was amusing or just a poor idea.) But other than that it was a good story. Perhaps a little long.

The rest of the programme was solid, the Yasser Arafat story was quite interesting, but everything else just washed over, nothing wrong with them, just a little boring.