[Jeff]

The issue is though the last week and the next few weeks can't be seen as an indication or used as a guide as to how very UK-centric stories/events will be handled by the single news channel since the current interim merged service doesn't have the ability to provide a separate service for UK viewers (bolded that bit since it's absolutely infuriating how that is being willfully/deliberately ignored on this website).

Sorry, I think if you look at the majority of my posts on this matter in the last week, I've more than gone out of the way to point out that it is important to wait for the full service to launch before condemning the merger outright. I also think it's rather outrageous for you to accuse me of willfully ignoring the realities or difficulties of the merger, when I feel I have consistently been one of the members most willing to engage with the realities and difficulties of the situation and suggest plausible solutions to the problems involved.

My remarks were intended to be general in nature rather than rebuking specifically you and I‘m sorry that it clearly came across that way for you.

It was just your post provided (in my view) a launchpad for things I held back from posting for a number of days but thought had to be said.