Media mistakes

[EEPhil]

Nah! Lord Iain Bottom.

 

[prpr]

How do you suggest a repeat showing of live coverage be labelled in a short, snappy manner

"MOTD: Mexico v England" with description "Replay of Mexico v England from Azteca..."
It's not exactly hard, is it?

Which meant risking spoilerage while navigating iPlayer

As always. They just can't help themselves giving away the result when you're looking for a replay of something where you don't want to know the result. So what's the point?
Just one of many reasons why I almost never use it.

Anyway the cheating <slur> ba5t@rd5 got their comeuppance, despite the penalty that wasn't, which pleases greatly.

 

[Black Hole]

The other way often used it to label it as a "rerun". But that can also be taken to mean they replayed the match. How do you suggest a repeat showing of live coverage be labelled in a short, snappy manner that does not confuse anyone including yourself?

Just remove the word "live" if it isn't actually live. Simples.

 

[EEPhil]

Just remove the word "live" if it isn't actually live. Simples.

Then, going back to your arts point, you get into the argument about whether a concert is recorded live or in the studio. And was it recorded as live in the studio or was it post-produced.

 

[gomezz]

The important distinction to be made is if it is full coverage, extended highlights or short highlights. The length of the programme is a clue though fitting full coverage of a football match into a ninety minute slot does mean editing out some of the full coverage (ad-ration breaks, injury assistance etc). Many people also think full coverage should include all the pre/half time/post match puerile punditry.

Bearing that in mind I suggest that "full coverage" is the best way of labelling it.

 

[Black Hole]

The important distinction to be made...

No! The important distinction is whether it is being broadcast at the time it is happening. I am not much interested in sport, but I am definitely not interested when it isn't live (although, that said, I enjoyed the darts from Madison Square Garden which was a delayed broadcast – but so far as I can remember it was not listed as "live").

 

[Black Hole]

An item on Morning Live about using the heads of reed mace as insulation. Except even the farmer called them bullrushes. They are not bullrushes, the plant is not even a rush. Everyone thinks they are bullrushes, because of an incorrect illustration in a children's bible.