28-02-2024, 11:06 AM
(28-02-2024, 09:22 AM)Brekkie Wrote: Can't help but compare the launch of The World Today on BBC News with The World with Yalda Hakim on Sky. I've seen neither live but seen the promotion of Sky's show, which looks classy, intelligent with a great presenter - and then on the otherhand you have the BBC which over the last 18 months seems to have lost it's class, intelligence and many of it's great presenters. Maryam needs a viral moment that shows of her journalistic credentials rather than her spoon bending, moon making, countdowning skills.At the end of the day, Sky might have the style, but neither have the substance. The World is just as disappointing to me as the BBC News channel's schedule - it's very thin on actual reporting (the editions I've seen actually manage less than the BBC) and is incredibly heavy on interviews and particularly panel discussions.
This is clearly the order of the day in news world, but I'm so bored of it. The great thing about television news is its ability to provide an authoritative and succinct audio-visual summary of events - that's what I want from it. All this blah-blahing is really just overly produced visualised radio (and talk radio, not news radio). Particularly with the challenge from the two opinion channels, you'd think the BBC and Sky would focus more on what they're good at. Instead, we're left with a situation where the 'News' section of the EPG is just endless talking about the news, with far too little actual news reporting.