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There is a livestream of the undercover policing inquiry here - but it is virtually unusable for reporters trying to follow it remotely. The words are appearing via a fast scrolling video feed that can't be paused or rewound: ucpi.org.uk/hearing/eviden…
1) I can't type that fast to copy down everything. If I could hear the audio - which we are not allowed to do - I could take down quotes in shorthand.
2) We cannot scroll back to check quotes. 20 years ago at the Bloody Sunday Inquiry, we could do that.
2) We cannot scroll back to check quotes. 20 years ago at the Bloody Sunday Inquiry, we could do that.
3) If I were to screen-shot key quotes (to transcribe for a report) I would then miss the next five minutes. And given I can't hear the evidence, I can't say whether we would miss something important.
