16-08-2021, 01:40 PM
House post_id=34411 time= user_id=1266 Wrote:Couldn't post yesterday, but I was highly impressed by Yalda Hakim's reporting. It was notable that the BBC didn't seem to have either a reporter or live pictures from Kabul yesterday morning, when Sky, CNN and others did – a striking contrast to days of old. But the context and analysis Yalda could interject even while interviewing guests (and the Taliban spokesperson) more than made up for this.
I wonder too how the Taliban spokesperson interview came about – Yalda had tweeted it before she appeared on air, so it wasn't impromptu. Interesting (but welcome) editorial decision to run it live on air, via her phone, while she was presenting rather than have her conduct it 'offline' and then played back. The situation was changing so rapidly, it deserved to be live.
The only thing they could have done was got a line-in to Yalda's phone to provide better sound quality. It's something pirate radio has done for years.