The day yesterday

Amusement from Channel 4 news at 7pm last night. First John Snow fluffs his lines as (presumably) the teleprompt fails. For a few moments of live air, the news dies, before Snow apologises fro a 'technical glitch.' Something mostly unremarkable, but this was a bad night for Channel 4 news and a good day for the rest of us. Next James Blake, reporting from Plymouth, has to put up with a cat walking in and out of vision behind him, then a youth running the other way in the background, waving his hands in the air and creating a hullabaloo. Then, following more excited murmurings of southwestern young off-screen, the camera pans in for a close-up of Blake to try and minimise any further embarrassment but so painfully (though pleasingly) obvious.
Then Channel 4 stretches a video call interviewee of Amber Foley (but we can see how she should look, fully-bodied, as a main presenter - in the studio - talks to her). Then at the end, we get further grovelling from Snow, that a report from Tehran cannot be brought, but will be showed the next day and "it's got some really great stuff in it," like an overenthusiastic teen reviewing the latest blockbuster movie. The best thing since that lady journalist had her arse pinched live on air during the floods and acrried on a model of professionalism.