[Kojak]

20 years ago, News 24 used to fit 15-18 stories in the front half-hour, even if just in brief. Sometimes today, even on fairly slow news days, you get half-hours where only three or four stories are covered at all. And when it's that sluggish, I just turn off. Ideally, you'd have the happy medium between the two extremes that you had about ten years ago - a decent number of stories, with analysis on the main ones (ideally from BBC correspondents and experts, rather than from pundits).

Hopefully, the 'more updates' in yesterday's article refers to a slightly pacier format. Ideally, they'd also reformat The Context to include some actual decent explainer segments (as per Outside Source) - you know, to actually give some context.

Was the high story count not a casualty of Delivering Quality First? I seem to recall one of the tenets of that was that the news channels would cover fewer stories per hour, but in greater depth. It would seem to make sense that fewer stories covered = fewer teams/people needed.