Kimmo Wilska Sacked For Drinking Beer Live On Air: BBC News To Use Props
KIMMO Wilska is the English-language news anchor in Finland who thought it a good idea to illustrate an item about Finland’s alcohol licensing laws by drinking beer on air.
He’s been sacked. But we think that news readers helping viewers better understand what the story is and means with motions, props and acting is useful.
The BBC’s Louise Minchin and Bill Turnbull are already halfway there. Whenever it’s a sad story, they both look sad. When its a story they don’t approve of, they tilt their heads, purse their lips and give the big sideways eye.
The next logical step to help thick telly watchers make sense of it all must be props.
Any BBC story on Israel can be illustrated by Jeremy Bowen setting fire to a plastic baby dressed in the kefiyeh; news of the Conservatives can feature Sian Williams punching an old lady in the face; and Kate Silverton can stick big cardboard stars over her eyes when presenting showbiz news.
Come on, BBC, tells us what we need to know…
Posted: 14th, October 2010 | In: TV & Radio Comments (5) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed: RSS 2.0 | TrackBack | Permalink
October 18th, 2010 at 2:18 pm
Kimmo Wilska T-Shirt coming soon ….. gonna post it on kimmo’s facebook
Kimmo = Legend
October 18th, 2010 at 10:11 am
He will face the court next month! that was so offensive for some viewers little kids might have saw that!!! that shouldn’t had happend =(
October 16th, 2010 at 6:32 am
How humourless can you be!
He’s just playing.
No wonder they all start killing themselves up there at this time of year.
How SAD can you get.
By the way, the Finnish composer Sibelius was a complete alcoholic. Bet they still play his music !!
October 15th, 2010 at 7:25 pm
I can only describe the clip as highly amusing and utterly fantastic. not condoning the drinking of beer on t.v but hey at what point did he drink anything?
October 15th, 2010 at 2:32 pm
total over-reaction .. he’s clearly NOT drinking the beer since the bottle is empty. Yes, it was amusing … please explain at which point he did something so awful that it was worthy of dismissal??