MikeMA
pfm Member
I'm the OP who started this thread.
One of the things that shocked me most, at least initially, was the way this story was handled by ITV News. I'd watched episode 4 of Viewpoint, followed immediately by ITV News at Ten. Tom Bradby's opening words were along the lines of "Good evening, anyone who's just been watching Viewpoint will be interested in an item later in our bulletin" (or words to that effect). "Blimey" I thought, "headlines on News at Ten? He's had an accident, he's dead, he's ill". But no, it was a report based on a second hand unverified story from another news organisation. "Blimey" I thought (again) "that's crappy and unethical handling by a supposedly flagship news organisation, they could have done that better". And apparently on the strength of this piece of unverified news it was announced in the same bulletin that episode 5 of Viewpoint would not be aired. I thought that was unnecessarily preemptive, and hypocritical seeing as it was left on "Catch Up" so we could all still watch it.
Clearly the severity of the accusations now emerging mean they need investigating, and I will await the outcome before drawing further conclusions. In one sense what happens now is an irrelevance.
I shan't bother with episode five. I've now decided it wasn't very good, like most TV drama.
One of the things that shocked me most, at least initially, was the way this story was handled by ITV News. I'd watched episode 4 of Viewpoint, followed immediately by ITV News at Ten. Tom Bradby's opening words were along the lines of "Good evening, anyone who's just been watching Viewpoint will be interested in an item later in our bulletin" (or words to that effect). "Blimey" I thought, "headlines on News at Ten? He's had an accident, he's dead, he's ill". But no, it was a report based on a second hand unverified story from another news organisation. "Blimey" I thought (again) "that's crappy and unethical handling by a supposedly flagship news organisation, they could have done that better". And apparently on the strength of this piece of unverified news it was announced in the same bulletin that episode 5 of Viewpoint would not be aired. I thought that was unnecessarily preemptive, and hypocritical seeing as it was left on "Catch Up" so we could all still watch it.
Clearly the severity of the accusations now emerging mean they need investigating, and I will await the outcome before drawing further conclusions. In one sense what happens now is an irrelevance.
I shan't bother with episode five. I've now decided it wasn't very good, like most TV drama.