Thursday, April 29, 2021

Rules is rules

Was Boris Johnson genuinely riled at PMsQs yesterday, or was his shouting and finger-jabbing simply standard Bojo bluster when confronted with uncomfortable questions ?

Gary Gibbon's report for Channel 4 News at 7pm started with some interesting editing of Mr Johnson's performance at the despatch box.  The rules on re-use of parliamentary actuality forbid internal editing of answers. Here, Gibbon's team seem to have clustered parts of sentences, with some zoomed reframing of the shots, and then scripted quickly over. It worked very effectively to convey the Prime Minister's annoyance.  But did they go too far ?

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