Understand issues relating to factual programming for television/Understand codes and conventions of factual programming for television
Issues Accuracy Accuracy is really vital to any news or factual programme, you have to ensure that you have a programme that the audience can out their full trust in, it makes a more believable programme and is more likely draw a response. If you consistently feed false information your reputation with the audience will wear thin and eventually your trust and interest from the audience will die. When watching a news provider or factual programme the audience are looking for facts rather than an opinion or something that may or may not true, sometimes that can be difficult for example with a news provider, when reporting on breaking news there are usually field presenters that will interview eyewitnesses, this the information you take from these people will usually be highly exaggerated and you can’t help but feed this to the audience. Here is an example of a news team in America feeding the audience the incorrect information, they were reporting on a plan...