A reference to the interviewer seeing only part of a head across the console of hanging microphones

A reference to the interviewer seeing only part of a head across the console of hanging microphones and other wonders of technology separating him or her from the studio guests.
I have just finished being part of the head bobbage. Local radio depends on people like us bobbing in to keep their talk radio going. Sometimes it’s guests on the line from London but they prefer someone local if they can get them.In the 12 months to the end of April we did around 20 interviews for Radio Leeds, plus a few for Radio Humberside, Radio Eire and Radio York. I’ve just been interviewed as secretary of the local branch of Liberty – the National Council for Civil Liberties – on BBC Radio Leeds’ morning programme. Nine were arrested, mostly on charges of being drunk and disorderly, one for hitting a policeman. One journalist ended up in the Royal Free Hospital under sedation.Today was to be the first newspaper of the computer revolution.

But in its closing it stayed true to one of journalism’s oldest truths: sometimes the fist is mightier than the pen.. Voices were raised, a punch was thrown and quickly the Wild West came to Wapping. Chairs were thrown, beer bottles crunched under foot and about 20 drunk journalists and photographers were trying to punch each other – most of them missing.While editor Richard Stott tried to calm things down, the police arrived and started pinning reporters, photographers and executives to the floor. The burly New Zealander was upset about something Mann had said in a magazine interview and the two had argued about it. Hours later a casual remark set Chisholm off and he flattened Mann. Both later left Sky’s employ.But in the annals of Fleet Street nothing quite compares to the last day of Today.

When the mid-market tabloid was closed in November 1995 the staff put the paper to bed and retired to Henry’s Cafe Bar in Wapping. Very quickly things got out of hand as champagne, beer and spirits were downed in an unseemly rush.Given that it was the last time many of the paper’s staff would see each other it was a last chance to settle some scores. Unfortunately an old-fashioned copy spike was sitting on the desk and he impaled himself through the chest.But it is not just scent of ink and newsprint that sets off the journalistic tendency to violence. Scott Chisholm, a Sky News anchorman, hit the headlines when he hit his partner Chris Mann.