The absolute worst, all agree, the single biggest error to avoid at all costs, the ultimate no-no, is to embarrass your audience. Which, sadly, is what Deley did, albeit only a bit, and certainly not entirely through his own fault. “Live TV is a high-wire act,” says Rageh Omaar, former BBC “Scud Stud”, now with Al Jazeera English. “There’s no middle ground. It’s either seamless, or it falls apart in spectacular fashion.”
Quite apart from “simply getting the mechanics right, which is hard enough”, and “doing your homework, or at least having a decent hinterland, for when the ‘rebel spokesman’ turns out to be someone else”; quite apart from “being able to blot out five conversations in your ear, and talk for ages when there’s nothing to talk about,” you really need to be ready, confident, prepared, on top of things.
“The transition from studio to live is very difficult,” he says. “The problem with Ortis is he was just dropped in at the deep end. He looked like a man on his own, with nowhere and no one at all to turn to. A man on the high wire, without a safety net.”
And that, concludes Lynam, is unforgivable. “They could have made life easier for him,” he says. “They could have given him an autocue for the main links to camera, so that at least was secure. They could have helped him by cutting away to cameras in the stadium when he was in trouble, so he could look at his script in peace. The direction really could have helped him. Honestly, I feel sorry for the guy.”
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