Fat richard wrote:

I appreciated that you was just stating the obvious from the outset
and the chain is often broken at then end where the names of TOCs and
locations involved tend to be unknown by the pretty face / voice.
Their lack of knowledge of the system is, to be honest, undertsandable
as they tend to be the journos at the star of the process to becoming
a top flight presenter with brains, that said the appalling offerings
on Skys rolling news does not instill confidence that the (w)anchors
have a clue what they are "on about".


I think the Sky News anchors/presenters are probably chosen to be less
than totally bright in order not to make the channel's target audience
feel that they are being talked down to.