14-04-2024, 12:03 PM
Not like there are any major news events coming up this year in which it'd be great for the level of analysis offered by the BBC to be greater than another panel of f****** opinion columnists.
The changes to Newsnight are frankly emblematic of the direction of BBC News, particularly on television, over the last few years - a loss of talent, a loss of a purpose, a loss of quality, a loss of variety and, most importantly, the loss of something with genuine public service value in favour of this near-universal dreck of a format that provides nothing but appearance fees to an overly small crowd of predictable rent-a-gobs. A BBC News that would lose somebody like Mark Urban so that they can put on an evening Politics Live is a BBC News in a very bad place.
The changes to Newsnight are frankly emblematic of the direction of BBC News, particularly on television, over the last few years - a loss of talent, a loss of a purpose, a loss of quality, a loss of variety and, most importantly, the loss of something with genuine public service value in favour of this near-universal dreck of a format that provides nothing but appearance fees to an overly small crowd of predictable rent-a-gobs. A BBC News that would lose somebody like Mark Urban so that they can put on an evening Politics Live is a BBC News in a very bad place.