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One thing I don't about the merged channel is shots like this... The screen, in addition to the BBC News symbol tacked onto the top left, really feels like an on-the-fly job in terms of graphics (though I understand in some breaking news, these are probably the ones permitted by time!). 

A half-screen shoulder graphic pushback (or keyed behind the correspondent) puts more thought into it, IMO.

This has been doing my head in for several months -- but I really don't understand why they've felt it necessary to plonk a BBC News logo at the top left of the display. 

It adds absolutely nothing to the coverage, and it essentially duplicates the function of the BBC News logo that's always at the bottom of the screen anyway, and which is now even more obnoxiously visible as it now sits on a prominent full-width red bar. 

In fact, as the image above shows, all it does is GET IN THE BLOODY WAY of the very graphics they're trying to showcase on the newsroom displays. The graphic/slide to which NickyS is referring on the display would look much cleaner and less cluttered if there was no additional BBC News logo up there at all. And frankly, news producers and presenters really shouldn't have to work around such a superfluous design element that has no purpose being there in the first place.

Much like the eternally vacuous decision to make the lower thirds all-red, all the time, I can't see any sensible reason to slap a BBC News DOG onto the newsroom screens. 

But perhaps I'm being too harsh -- after all, it's just one more very small detail in a swelling ocean of objectively f**king stupid BBC News design decisions.