[mouseboy33]

I know we are all feeling a bit disappointed with the current presentation of BBC News. Of course some view the corporation as infallible. I dont hold such views. We all know the journalism is good. But realistically it can be presented better than it is.

Since license fee money is always an issue it seems to me the incremental changes are not worth the money. Im sorry. Most viewers, 99% hardly notice anything. I think you can ask anyone if they BBC logo has changed, probably every one will say no its exactly the same. Yeah we know why it was changed for technical reasons but that one change is symbolic of the barely perceptible graphics changes that are made over the years that no one notices, but us. Its design by committee that results in these watered down boring looks. I think its time. Its time for a complete change of everything. This actually should have happened when the merger took place. Not just those (Im sorry to say) plain boring programme title slides they started using. Just pretty much everything needed to thrown out. BBC News needs a new everything. How the programmes are presented, the programme structure. The strange silent graphic interstitial that pop up in the breaks. The programme open then the redundant 2nd open, which wastes time. Just get on with it.

I know they are trying to loosen things up a bit, but unfortunately the BBC has a style of presenting (to me) that is very cold and detached. Not sure that will ever change, its just BBC DNA thing. I think there needs to be training on vamping during a breaking story. Its actually painful to watch some presenters stumbling and fumbling their way thru a story thats breaking. Because they are seemingly so frightened to make a speaking mistake, it seems or sound too casual. Well... like a normal person. They always seemed robotic. Someone mentioned the timing of interviews that get rudely cut-off, thats an issue that I dont like. But one of my pet-peeves is the circling back to a top story halfway thru a newsblock. Sometimes the hard breaks are unnecessary.

I think that somewhere down the line. The channels will be split again. Maybe not full time channels but maybe a paired down domestic channel that operates at certain hours of the day. We know it was an economic decisions, but geez this was not dont very well....lets just be frank.