This morning I watched live report about Election Candidates Registration Day in my country, Thailand. Many presenters were sent to the event to do live report but...many of them made me confused about their questions.
It seems to me that they are not supposed to be there. They are not into the story and some of them asking questions that wasting air time. It's not that bad...but not good as well. It's like..when I heard the question, I feel like what the point of asking that is. Why did you ask that? What a broad question! Why do you give chance for politician to speak for their own benefits? I am thinking as I am an audience who wants to know who have potential to be my representative. The questions didn't lead to any answer the people like me need to know from the candidates. It mainly about what do you feel..what do you think...
I didn't mean to say all of them are bad. Some of them are really good. I just feel like doing live report like this, why not giving the job to political correspondant to do. They are with story everyday. They know every single candidate quite well. They have background and they know hiden issue very well coz they are there among those politicians everyday. Wouldn't it be better to have them report from the field and asking more useful and in-dept questions?
In Thailand, doing live report like this tends to be a presenter's job. But presenters Thailand, most of them, are not even have experience as a reporter. They don't do news story, they announce news. It's different. I know that they may work hard and do some homework before their live reports but it can not compare to what the correspondant have. corresondant will be able to deal with stories better.
I think this is one simple problem in Thai journalism. Reporter are not presenter. I don't know if they can not do that, or they are not given a chance to do so. But I think it's wrong. Reporting from the field should be a journalist's job coz audience can get more useful information and vary aspect from reporters.
I am not against presenter...it's just the way to put people in the right job.
What do you think?
1 comment:
So,do I. i think that journalist in thailand still have very much to improve the way they are reporting news to be more objective in term of interviewing quests esspecially politicians during election period. i also agree about the special corespondant in each field to represent the story.
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