I think they should cut local TV news. It’s such a massive waste of money – the internet takes care of local news and affairs, and most people are only really interested in their immediate local area, not the massive areas covered.
The other day, the national news covered a story about a crane rescuing someone from a burning building. Minutes later, it was BBC London’s main story with an extended report and “exclusive footage”.
It happened in Reading, Berkshire. Nothing to do with London.
Cutting back of satire and political comedy.
Cutting back of in depth news.
Parroting government approved phrases every time they report on the middle east.
The BBC isn’t being damaged by the government it’s being damaged from within.
Cutting the investigative films feels extremely short sighted, it’ll just be politics live but in the evening if it’s just interview style debates
Dreadful. Turning it into a “discussion and debate” programme means the Newsnight that produced high quality investigative journalism and intelligent analysis of the days events is dead.
If you cut BBC funding to the point of them not being able to produce high quality content which broadcasters with a commercial incentive wouldn’t be able to fund, you kill public service broadcasting. That noise you can hear is people patting themselves on the back in Tory HQ.
And how is doing the News at One from Salford (when they have a very capable studio in London) saving money?
It should be the light entertainment shows that get the chop first, news should be the last.
The blatant pushing of an agenda became a serious turn off. No, thank you. I’m not paying for that.
>The long-running show will lose its dedicated reporters, be shortened by 10 minutes and drop its investigative films to focus on studio-based debates
That seems like an enormous downgrade.
Why do so many public services have to die a slow death as they get starved of funding? They should put the BBC out it’s misery quickly, not like this.
Oooh but we get a new ‘royal editor’ for all that essential royal news about ribbon cutting, curtain opening and light waving.
>will lose its dedicated reporters, be shortened by 10 minutes and drop its investigative films
Absolutely what we need is to lose some of the last investigative journalism in the country.
Panorama is next, no doubt.
I don’t own a tv, and I don’t consume bbc content, and from all I read, it’s not worth it anymore. Anything good they do ends up on a streaming service anyway.
“So we’ve made the decision to reformat Newsnight as a 30 minute late-night news-making debate, discussion and interview programme,” she continued.
“The new programme will no longer have a dedicated reporting team, but it will have access to our top reporting talent and experts from across BBC News, who will take part in the conversation and share their expertise and insights.”
This is the troubling part for me. In-depth journalism can be problematic for bad actors in ways that debates can’t. Its easy for special interest groups like the Institute for Economic Affairs or the Spiked Network to get a media trained ‘expert’ booked to skew a debate.
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I think they should cut local TV news. It’s such a massive waste of money – the internet takes care of local news and affairs, and most people are only really interested in their immediate local area, not the massive areas covered.
The other day, the national news covered a story about a crane rescuing someone from a burning building. Minutes later, it was BBC London’s main story with an extended report and “exclusive footage”.
It happened in Reading, Berkshire. Nothing to do with London.
Cutting back of satire and political comedy.
Cutting back of in depth news.
Parroting government approved phrases every time they report on the middle east.
The BBC isn’t being damaged by the government it’s being damaged from within.
Cutting the investigative films feels extremely short sighted, it’ll just be politics live but in the evening if it’s just interview style debates
Dreadful. Turning it into a “discussion and debate” programme means the Newsnight that produced high quality investigative journalism and intelligent analysis of the days events is dead.
If you cut BBC funding to the point of them not being able to produce high quality content which broadcasters with a commercial incentive wouldn’t be able to fund, you kill public service broadcasting. That noise you can hear is people patting themselves on the back in Tory HQ.
And how is doing the News at One from Salford (when they have a very capable studio in London) saving money?
It should be the light entertainment shows that get the chop first, news should be the last.
The blatant pushing of an agenda became a serious turn off. No, thank you. I’m not paying for that.
>The long-running show will lose its dedicated reporters, be shortened by 10 minutes and drop its investigative films to focus on studio-based debates
That seems like an enormous downgrade.
Why do so many public services have to die a slow death as they get starved of funding? They should put the BBC out it’s misery quickly, not like this.
Oooh but we get a new ‘royal editor’ for all that essential royal news about ribbon cutting, curtain opening and light waving.
>will lose its dedicated reporters, be shortened by 10 minutes and drop its investigative films
Absolutely what we need is to lose some of the last investigative journalism in the country.
Panorama is next, no doubt.
I don’t own a tv, and I don’t consume bbc content, and from all I read, it’s not worth it anymore. Anything good they do ends up on a streaming service anyway.
“So we’ve made the decision to reformat Newsnight as a 30 minute late-night news-making debate, discussion and interview programme,” she continued.
“The new programme will no longer have a dedicated reporting team, but it will have access to our top reporting talent and experts from across BBC News, who will take part in the conversation and share their expertise and insights.”
This is the troubling part for me. In-depth journalism can be problematic for bad actors in ways that debates can’t. Its easy for special interest groups like the Institute for Economic Affairs or the Spiked Network to get a media trained ‘expert’ booked to skew a debate.