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Outside Source became boring as soon as it lost its touchscreen and the fact that the bbc had many sources to draw stories from, which was what the original was very good at originally.

I agree that the original concept of Outside Source, ironically, was far more innovative. It also fit the name far better.

On the point about context to news for World viewers: good point, however to an extent the reverse it also true - British viewers will be irritated by constant explanations of where Warwickshire is and how the “UK Finance Minister” is called the Chancellor, so will quickly switch away if things get too international. This is party what I meant before when I was saying that it’s impossible to satisfy both audiences. Financially, the WN audience is by far the most important but the BBC must also be seen to do enough for British viewers by Ofcom and the press, so it has no choice really but the unsatisfying fudge we are now seeing.

There is nothing wrong with “proper” WN if that’s what the audience is expecting, though. But it wouldn’t allow the BBC to claim that it’s “not closing the NC”!

That's my point. 

On one story, UK viewers were treated to a detailed explanation as to where Birmingham and Oxford were, that they're cities in England, the counties they're in and where they are relation to London, complete with a highly detailed map and a guest being credited as being in 'Oxford, UK', yet the next story which was captioned and scripted as 'UK snowfall' mentioned three places, one in England and two others in Wales and had no geographical context attached as to which country they were in. Then the reporter pops ups in Cumbria which is described as 'the North of England' and talks about several other places, one of which was in Scotland. If anything the UK snowfall piece needed more detailed context than where the HS2 line is going to run.

As a UK viewer I found the whole 20 minutes very odd indeed. As a World viewer, I'd just be confused and how the presenter felt, goodness knows.

The same happened with the Wayne Couzens story on Monday with the presenter and reporter having to go into huge detail about who he was, what he'd done, when it happened, where it happened, what his court appearance was about etc. It comes across as a bit patronising to UK viewers.

Some of these issues can be resolved with some consistency in whoever is writing the presenter scripts. If they're going to recycle a script from the BBC News at One it either needs to be better tweaked for international viewers so presenter lead-in pieces to a package or report that is UK focussed go into microscopic detail or you keep the explanations brief, as they used to be on the news channel. You can't really do both as the way it is at the moment is very jarring, sounds quite bizarre and just becomes plain awkward after a while.