On Nov 23, 10:31*pm, MIG wrote:

On Nov 23, 7:23*pm, Paul Corfield wrote:

On Tue, 23 Nov 2010 10:10:12 -0800 (PST), MIG
wrote:

On Nov 23, 6:06*pm, Paul Corfield wrote:

Not ideal I accept but would you really want artistic licence sprinkled
on top of your morning transport information?

No, but maybe someone in the newsroom on seeing that the bulletin was
nonsense might have made the odd phone call or something to find out
what was really happening.

They only relay what they are told. *I would be surprised if the people
in the newsroom had any real clue what TOC ran where or in this case
that two TOCs run over a stretch of line in West London and that one of
the services could be affected by a problem at Watford. *There might be
some BBC employees who know because they use the service to Shepherds
Bush but I suspect their ability to inform the newsroom is rather
limited.

Or if they really can't even do that, why bother at all?

There will be many occasions when the information is perfectly fine
because the source info is fine. Therefore people will find the info
helpful. That's probably sufficient reason. I recognise that the real
world situation changes faster than the telly can but I am grateful that
I can see something on the telly as I get ready to head out rather than
having to switch my PC on and wait for it to warm up, get connected to
the net etc etc and then have to switch it all off again.

In this case I was only listening to the TV because I was making
myself late by trying to get my PC to do something it was having a
problem with ... but didn't affect my ability to post through Google.
It should really have been off by then.

I nearly didn't listen after the "major disruption ... South Eastern"
part of the report. *If I'd been using the WCML today I might have
been peeved that the real problem wasn't highlighted.

OK, well put like that your gripe does make more sense -
(a) your ears pricked up a little on hearing "major disruption ...
South Eastern" - when of course we know that SE had nowt to do with
it, and
(b) there was wider disruption on the WCML, of which the disruption to
Southern services from the WLL up to MKC was only a part (just how
disruptive was this disruption at Watford Junction?).


Perhaps I should go and get a job in a travel newsroom - I didn't
immediately (on first reading) spot that Southeastern had been
erroneously substituted for Southern, nor did I think laterally and
ponder that disruption to the Southern WLL services was a likely
indicator of wider problems on the WCML. I think I'll be off to watch
Sky News where I can feel 'less than totally bright' in good company
(well, plentiful company at least)!