Checked in with KING on Saturday evening where reporter Sebastian Robertson was filling in on the anchor desk. Please, somebody at KING coach this guy. He is too soft spoken to anchor. No energy, volume, no urgency, tone, drive. He led in to an exclusive Investigators piece like he was ready for a nap. Sell the stories. He has one job. Don't mail it in. Boring presentation at a time where he could shine.
You have mentioned that you have supported suicide prevention work. Given the perspective that experience may provide on how public criticism affects people, do you think your blog's tone consistently reflects the same compassion and concern for human consequences?
ReplyDeleteNo, I don't. But a worthwhile observation.
ReplyDeleteI make comments on what I see. If a person is consistently on TV in a front line role, they are in a fishbowl and it's fair game for them to take praise or criticism. It's an automatic performance review and should actually motivate them to recognize their performance or social media issues, learn and improve. I did the same critiques when I was a news director. Nature of the industry.
I’ve noticed this as well in both reporting and anchoring. Very monotone delivery. On one hand you could say he displays calmness which I can appreciate now that almost everything is considered “breaking news”. But on the other hand when there is a serious story or something that requires the public to act with urgency that doesn’t always come across with his delivery.
ReplyDeleteI hope that Sebastian will see this and take your points on board. As we saw with the crewneck situation a few weeks ago, he is quite capable of improvement.
ReplyDeleteHard for me to take seriously a fellow that appears so young in the anchor desk. Looks like he is probably a senior in high school or at best a doomed intern.
ReplyDeleteI saw Stephen Kilbreath doing the weather again on FOX 13 a couple of days ago.
ReplyDeleteGood to hear!
DeleteI am going to check the meet our weather team site a couple of times a day now to see whom or if any weather anchor gets cut to make room for Stephen. I know the one I would like to see removed.
DeleteSummer vacations coverage I would presume when auctions are dormant.
DeleteIf Stephen is only freelancing, his bio might not be put back up on the Fox 13 website (he had one out there at one point), and no one may be cut from the weather team.
DeleteI saw Stephen Kilbreath doing the weather a couple of days ago on FOX13.
ReplyDeleteAside: Once again this weekend on K5, the anchor is reading the sports segment.
ReplyDeleteI guess they want their entire sports team available for coverage on our six local World Cup match days, one of which is today.
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