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A letter to the editor printed in Jamaica\u2019s Daily Gleaner last week further detailed complaints with Bahamian media coverage of the Carifta event.<\/p>\nA letter to the editor printed in Jamaica\u2019s Daily Gleaner last week further detailed complaints with Bahamian media coverage of the Carifta event.<\/p>\n
The letter-writer “Romaro Scott” wrote: \u201cFor one thing, it was apparent that the main commentators for the games were proletarians in the field of media and communication.”<\/p>\n
\u201cThey oftentimes mispronounced names, had dead air while the coverage was live, had limited knowledge of the events and techniques, and most disturbing of all, they had poor commentating techniques.<\/p>\n
\u201cTo compound this, the only time one could get a feeling of adrenaline rush from their voices is when a Bahamas athlete is winning or has won the race. This clearly showed that they were doing commentary in their capacity as Bahamas commentators rather than regional commentators.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cRegional events should, by no means, be subjected to this sort of embarrassment,\u201d Mr Scott wrote.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe camera shots from the event brought back memories of watching a home-made video. The angles were untimely and lacked transition in smoothness, contributing to a poor delivery of the races.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Jamaican audience, in particular, must have been annoyed because they are used to a much better quality of broadcast from their local media houses.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat aside, social media were appropriately used by The Gleaner and Jamaican\u2019s Carifta team sponsor LIME Jamaica, giving its followers timely updates throughout the meet. They catered for those persons who weren\u2019t before television monitors, and this is commendable.<\/p>\n
\u201cAt the next meet in Martinique, hopefully amateur media controls won\u2019t be as prevalent and punctuated as they were in the Bahamas 2013.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Bahamian media coverage is still receiving criticism for commentators getting names wrong, having dead air during live coverage, and limited knowledge of events. Camera shots looked like home-made videos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[1097,45,131],"class_list":["post-34111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","tag-carifta","tag-media","tag-sports-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34111\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}