BBC News is starting to try my patience - not because of any perceived bias, but simply because of recent instances such as:
- Ben Brown talking to a passenger who'd just landed at Brize Norton while the latter was still on the plane. It was very hard to understand what the passenger was saying, and the questions became increasingly dumb ....
'Your wife is Chinese?
'Yes'
'But you flew out alone?'
'Yes'
'So you left your wife behind?'
- The normally sure-footed Judith Moritz talking to a student at the University of York yesterday:
'You're wearing a mask - why is that?'
- An interview with Jacob Rees-Mogg during which all his answers could be heard but none of the questions.
- A reporter who'd been sent to hang around Vancouver Island to collect tittle-tattle about the Sussexes, and who spent most of her slots explaining why she had nothing to report
- A BBC reporter and a Vancouver-based reporter discussing TV coverage of the Royal rumpus. (BBC News has increasingly devoted air-time to the subject of BBC News).
Dare I hope that the proposed cuts will improve things, e.g. by reducing the number of times London-based reporters are sent abroad to cover stories that they could cover from London or which were already being adequately covered by local (BBC or non-BBC) reporters?
- Ben Brown talking to a passenger who'd just landed at Brize Norton while the latter was still on the plane. It was very hard to understand what the passenger was saying, and the questions became increasingly dumb ....
'Your wife is Chinese?
'Yes'
'But you flew out alone?'
'Yes'
'So you left your wife behind?'
- The normally sure-footed Judith Moritz talking to a student at the University of York yesterday:
'You're wearing a mask - why is that?'
- An interview with Jacob Rees-Mogg during which all his answers could be heard but none of the questions.
- A reporter who'd been sent to hang around Vancouver Island to collect tittle-tattle about the Sussexes, and who spent most of her slots explaining why she had nothing to report
- A BBC reporter and a Vancouver-based reporter discussing TV coverage of the Royal rumpus. (BBC News has increasingly devoted air-time to the subject of BBC News).
Dare I hope that the proposed cuts will improve things, e.g. by reducing the number of times London-based reporters are sent abroad to cover stories that they could cover from London or which were already being adequately covered by local (BBC or non-BBC) reporters?
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