29-05-2023, 09:39 PM
(29-05-2023, 07:46 PM)Studio7 Wrote: I sense that the traditional package (or a news report, in layman's terms) is considered passé in some quarters. Analysis and interviews are 'in', PKGs are out. Couldn't agree with you more, though. Seems a bit like the powers that be are trying to reinvent the wheel.I think you're right about an apparent shunning of proper news reports among some quarters, I get the impression some senior editors consider it a bit old-fashioned - but I just find that a bit odd considering it is pretty much the USP of television news - if you just want to organise discussions, move to radio/podcasts.
EDIT: Weirdly, in some respects it's like the BBC are trying to copy GB News (but without the inflammatory opinions!).
While GB News and Talk TV are certainly notable examples of ''discussion' over news', I'm not sure it's necessarily the BBC copying them so much as a general panelification of TV news since the middle of the last decade - a view that what people think has happened is as/more important than explaining what has happened. I mean, Politics Live - probably the BBC's unedifying pinnacle of this - actually predates the opinion channels.
(29-05-2023, 08:08 PM)LargelyALurker Wrote: It would be interesting to compare this to World Service radio - despite cuts over the years, still the BBC at its best and unashamedly internationally focused.Comparing the World Service to World News is always a bit hard as, although there is a lot of News on WS, it's more of an international Radio 4 than a news channel. But I'd expect any analysis to find that it's very internationally-focussed during its news programming and with a news agenda that is more newsworthiness/PSB-based than World News used to be. Indeed, if anything, WS has probably got less UK news on now than it did two decades or so ago - back then it used to have a few 'news in the UK' programmes, which have largely gone as standalone programmes.