"Jack Harrison" wrote in message
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And why do we have to see over and over again those people in red
outfits doing that silly dance or those youths skateboarding over
obstacles? I doubt that anyone pays the slightest attention to these
fillers, so why not instead cut them out add twenty seconds to the
weather and tell us such things as dewpoints?. At least there would
be a small audience for dewpoints - a significant gain in viewing
numbers on those watching those weirdos. (Isn't what they do called
the Ho Chi Minh trail or something like that?)

Jack

I agree that these clips are used far too much and become tedious vary
rapidly. I do admire the skill shown by the skateboarders.

It seems to me that there are just too few people working in television who
have any scientific understanding and this is reflected in the progarmme
content (or lack of the same).

Radio 4 has some good stuff (e.g The Material World). Frontiers this week
(Wednesday 21:00 to 21:30) is all about atmospheric dust and its impact on
climate so it might well be worth a listen.

Alan