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But that's your point of view and perspective. If some users on here feel so passionately about what happened that they've chosen to be all conspiracy about it, let them be just that.

To be fair, can you point to any opinions I have expressed which I didn't state were my personal view.

And, no, I won't let users be when it comes to having takes that are detached from reality. Somebody has to provide a counterbalance to certain members in this thread, otherwise it just ends up with pages of people agreeing that viewing figures have substantially decreased or that the new channel is basically World News in everything but name or that the old BBC News channel was disproportionately hit in budget cuts over the last decade or that there's a financially viable international market for a UK domestic news channel or that everything bad started on the 3rd April or any of the many other nonsense arguments that have cropped up in the last few months.