WINOL updating now

I have moved WINOL on to the actual WINOL web domain (http://www.winol.co.uk) over-writing the old version from last year. We are now approaching the final run down to launch. There's technical snags with the site at the moment - we lost the sound from the first part of the bulletin and had to patch it all up with no headlines over the bongs at the start. Also we are still running dummy copy on the front page. But the template is pretty much sorted now, and we have a way of webcasting as a live stream or a looped video for the news bulletins, for features packages and for sport. I think it looks very good and in terms of set up and already in terms of content is by far the best student journalism in the country, maybe the world. Arnold says it is far better than most national broadcasters in Africa, with the possible exception of the SABC. The main opposition to us is Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism (where they give the Pulitzer Prize). But we are way, way better than them. All they do is steal pictures off the national network and then do a load of crappy vox pops. We would fail a Winchester student for lifting those network pictures. Also the pieces go on and on and on. On the other hand they have this terrific solid oak and gold studio news desk and the presenters are very well lit, with lots of make-up and have fantastically straight and clean American-type News Teeth. i think we should copy the visual styling and presentation style of all this, with its fantastically over-the-top sing-song way of producing voice. We are better than them b ut - to be fair - we do have advantages such as the Mayor's firework show, and that mad guy from the Liberal Democrats who phones us up with stories. No wonder the columbia students are struggling - all they've got is broadway, the twin towers, the United Nations general assembly, the Bronx, Chinatown, Maddison Square Garden, The Clintons, Sex and the City, Drive By Shooting,Manhattan, Wall Street and that's before you start on the untrue stuff life crocodiles in the sewers, UFO abductions and swarms of killer bees... so it must be hard for them finding stories in such a quiet, sleepy out of the way place like New York City the poor things. No wonder they have to resort to Vox Pop about whether people like Barack Obama or not.