13-05-2024, 11:47 PM
(12-05-2024, 02:02 PM)Brekkie Wrote: The last edition of Newsnight before it's cut to half an hour and stripped of actual news reporting is on Friday 25th May.It's the fact they can be better that depresses the most. Like how Politics UK is a genuinely great piece of public service broadcasting, making Politics Live all the more awful in comparison. Even with the cut resources, production teams can still make a decent programme, when there's the impetus too. But because bosses want another bloody talkshow, that's what we'll get, regardless of whether something better could be made instead. They can dress it up in 'cuts', but as with the News channel, the new format is a choice. There will have been a way to still make savings while producing something worthwhile (more studio bound, ditch foreign reporting entirely (not like there's much left), favouring in-house voices over endless not-cheap pundits, etc.).