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There's also not much evidence of the supposed US dominance of the new channel.

It's more noticeable during overnights in the UK, which makes sense. The new channel's slower pace as you've mentioned before probably gives that perception during other hours.
For me, the problem is the limited time a bulletin has and the time spent on US domestic politics and culture wars is not the best use of time, which also happened on WN for the last few years before the merger. The amount of time they've given to them comes at the expense of other more newsworthy international stories. E.g. If I'm remembering correctly, Peru's crisis has been pretty much ignored by the BBC News channel while they have spent at least 5 minutes on US state court rulings on various days. During US primetime, AJE does a better job of balancing than the BBC and isn't trying to copy CNN in a sense by providing a global perspective while still covering some major US news.

This bulletin during US primetime with Martine Croxall is an example of what made BBC World superior to post-2015 BBC WN. A wide mix of stories from around the world, slightly faster pace than now but still having a few interviews. It's amazing to see headlines from Latin America, something you wouldn't see today as they ignore that area these days. AJE is what BBC World was. Unfortunately, it's probably not profitable for the BBC. It does seem BBC News doesn't know what it wants or needs to be unlike AJE, CNNi or France 24.
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