BBC NEWS WORLD UPDATE
That used to be enough to update citizens on the entirety of world events, including sport and weather now it’s how long it takes to say nothing over footage of nothing much. Tarmac,” Plett Usher had been speculating for a heroic 26 minutes. By the time footage of the cars gave way to even wobblier, constantly refocusing shots of what Amroliwala, eking out every second, referred to as “The. Instead, Amroliwala turned to on-the-ground reporter Barbara Plett Usher, who – as the normal scrolling captions were replaced with the special white-on-red “BREAKING” banner – gave the longest answers possible to the anchor’s questions, despite not knowing the answers to any of them, as they were about legal proceedings that had not yet begun. When a cameraman who had evidently been hanging out of a window suddenly leaned back in, inadvertently broadcasting a glimpse of an apartment interior to a global news audience, you could hear the distant sound of the documentary film-maker Adam Curtis right-clicking his mouse, saving this clip for use in a future film about 24-hour media’s spookiest anomalies. But there and then, all there was to show us was wobbly footage of cars with blacked-out windows speeding down a highway. He is the first former US president to be indicted! This was big. The fresh pictures were from Florida, where Donald Trump had just left the garish comfort of Mar-a-Lago and headed for the airport, on his way to face criminal charges in New York.
The revamped BBC News team, clockwise from top left: Lucy Hockings, Yalda Hakim, Christian Fraser, Sumi Somaskanda, Matthew Amroliwala and Maryam Moshiri.
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