Reporting Scotland: Pulitzer Prize Winning Journalism

We are huge fans of the national Scottish news programme Reporting Scotland, but for all the wrong reasons as it leaves us in hysterics every night. We shouldn't laugh though as BBC Scotland have brand new, state-of-the-art, multi million pound offices in Glasgow's Pacific Quay, so you would assume that their flagship news programme would be a big, sparkly, finely polished affair. That couldn't be further from the truth, over the past few years this programme has become progressively worse, it sometimes feels like the only thing holding it together is some blu-tack, masking tape and week old chewing gum. The production is practically non-existent, the reporting is woeful and the story selection is fucking hilarious. That's why we love it though, it's become a ritual at HMS Friday's HQ to sit around the television, buckle ourselves in and watch the car crash unfold.

But tonight Reporting Scotland televised something very special, a landmark incident, an indelible mark on the history of broadcast journalism. This event was so awesome it left our mouths open and our ham and cheese toasties on the floor and it had nothing to do with the full five minutes of silence which had happened earlier in the programme, due to a problem they were having with the sound. No, tonight we watched a female reporter interview a dog.
How did she do this? How on earth did she manage to interview an animal? Well she basically approached the dog in the street and asked it a question. Simple as that.
The "news" item she was reporting on was about Susan Boyle and the singer's chances of winning the Britain's Got Talent grand finale. During this segment the reporter "hit the streets" of West Lothian to gauge public opinion, (vox pop), and spied a dog on a lead with it's owner, but instead of interviewing the human she used her skills as a journalist to shake things up, she took broadcast journalism outside of the box, as she approached the dog with microphone in hand and shouted at the canine "Are you supporting Susan?" The dog, fearing for it's life, barked at her, the reporter laughed, the dog's owner laughed and our necks back home went bright red, as we looked at each other in a silent shared and cherished moment of total disbelief.

Take a look for yourselves HERE