[Stockland Hillman]

I'd really not take any of the announcements as long term.

Think of it this way: No sensible organisation is going to spend a million pound refitting a studio at the same time as its just disposed of a huge number of staff, and is expecting a backlash from public/media over the changes. 

I doubt most of the public are aware of the cuts that are currently happening at BBC News. My dad is 69 and watches BBC News every day, but he only watches the 1, 6 or 10 on BBC 1. He never watches the News Channel. He's not aware of any cuts to BBC News operations, and only knows about the merger of the NC and World cos I've told him about it.

As far as he's concerned, BBC 1 bulletins have a shiny new studio, the BBC 1 bulletins are the same quality as they've always been, if not better thanks to studio B, and even Wales Today has a shiny new studio. Outside of the media industry bubble and forums like this, don't assume that the wider public are aware of, or even care about, the deep cuts happening to BBC News away from the protected status of domestic BBC 1 bulletins.

True to an extent,  but in a era when a sick day for Lorraine can generate 10s of stories and hundreds of thousand clicks it's naive to think it's not an issue to cut jobs and spend money on 'flatter screens' screens turned sideways  and smaller wheels on the cameras (as it could be simply written to explain to a 69 year old) BBC Waste! Outrage!