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SELFIE STICKS AREN’T going anywhere soon – and one major news organisation is even going to be using them for broadcasting interviews.
According to Mashable Australia, Sky News reporters in Australia will be using special branded selfie sticks to film interviews out in the field.
The channel manager of Sky News Live, Greg Byrnes, told them that some reporters are already using the sticks, which will mainly be used for breaking news reporting.
While the new selfie sticks will be branded, as you can see a Sky News reporter in the UK seemed to have created his own with the aid of masking tape:
The reporter, Joe Tidy, has been doing a series of selfie stick interviews for Sky News in the UK:
In Australia, the selfie stick technology is made by SmartGrip, and each one will cost about $1000AUS each, says The Australian.
While selfie sticks are often the subject of derision, their use by networks for breaking news could prove that they’re more than just one-trick tech ponies.
But it might not be good news for camera operators, who aren’t needed when selfie sticks are used by reporters.
Pathfinders / TwitterHas the selfie stick made the cameraman redundant? @SkyNews Aus to start broadcasting, minus a cameraman @mashable http://t.co/gFisov7AnH
— Pathfinders Recruitment (@PathfindersRec) June 15, 2015
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Kay Burley will probably use it to hit the person she is interviewing
Give it a month and they’ll all be duck facing on the news..
On the bright side, selfie sticks make great lightening rods.
Whoever invented the selfie stick, really needs to take a good look at themselves
Because sky news couldn’t find any other way to be even more annoying
If Sky couldn’t get any more annoying… now we’ll have poor quality wobbly interviews with people who don’t matter.
There’ll be a fair few of these smashed when dropped when the usual clowns come diving into shot.
Kay Burley needs a swift couple of strokes of one, might make her see what a useless interviewer she is.When the interviewer becomes the focus if the story its unprofessional journalism, something she is an expert in!
Ah, Sly Views. The Kim Kardashian of news outlets.
He he he. Dammit that was funny! Wish I’d thought of that!
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