[ViridianFan]

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.

I can’t remember the last time I watched the news channel, whereas pre-merge it was often on in the background or I’d watch it when having lunch. I also hardly use the news app either since the changes as it’s a massive step backwards.

As said earlier, it feels very much like they saw that 100days and outside source did well and decided to try and make the whole day like it but it doesn’t work.

They really need to look again at the structure of an hour. As a viewer, I found the old structure back in the early days where it’s much snappier and more stories covered. One thing I’ve also missed is the interviews with a MP in the afternoon. It was an opportunity for ministers to be held to account and get beyond rhe sound bites which you get in packages. News at 1, 6 and 10 havent the time to do this whereas the news channel could.

It all comes back to a problem I think the bbc has at the moment. It seems to insist on trying to be the same as other broadcasters when it should be aiming to offer something different. It does feel like bbc news have lost their way at the moment. It can’t all be blamed on funding. Some of it has been decisions made .

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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.

I can’t remember the last time I watched the news channel, whereas pre-merge it was often on in the background or I’d watch it when having lunch. I also hardly use the news app either since the changes as it’s a massive step backwards.

As said earlier, it feels very much like they saw that 100days and outside source did well and decided to try and make the whole day like it but it doesn’t work.

They really need to look again at the structure of an hour. As a viewer, I found the old structure back in the early days where it’s much snappier and more stories covered. One thing I’ve also missed is the interviews with a MP in the afternoon. It was an opportunity for ministers to be held to account and get beyond rhe sound bites which you get in packages. News at 1, 6 and 10 havent the time to do this whereas the news channel could.

It all comes back to a problem I think the bbc has at the moment. It seems to insist on trying to be the same as other broadcasters when it should be aiming to offer something different. It does feel like bbc news have lost their way at the moment. It can’t all be blamed on funding. Some of it has been decisions made .