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As to the scoops, it depends what you think BBC News’ purpose is. IMO BBC news should be about informing the viewer of important local, national and international stories, cutting through the noise surrounding the stories giving truthful, well informed, verified information free from bias. The scoops should be coming from programs such as Panorama which the BBC News should then be reporting on.

I think agenda-setting isn't only about scoops, it's also simply about steering the conversation - and, in that regard, BBC network bulletins (possibly only second to the BBC News website) are best-placed to do that purely because of their reach. I mean, government ministers and senior civil servants are known to celebrate with little parties if it's their policy that leads the News at Six - because more people will see that and talk about that than with any other outlet.