29-11-2023, 06:12 PM
Very unfortunate, but ultimately hard to see what can be done (other than certain people's unhinged belief that all the rest of BBC output should be sacrificed to keep BBC News in stasis).
As I've said before, the reformatting of Newsnight is ghastly and valueless and it'd be better just to axe it outright and use the saving elsewhere. If I can guarantee one thing, it'll be that the new version will not 'high quality' or 'consequential'. Considering once-upon-a-time the BBC broadcast longform world reporting on BBC Two in addition to Newsnight, the axing of Our World is a further sign of how far BBC News' scope has fallen in the last two decades.
On the other hand, I fundamentally don't care if the News at One moves to Salford. "It's a box ticking exercise" "It'll make no difference to the viewer". And? Those boxes still have to get ticked as part of the BBC's charter and public service obligations and this is an easy way of doing it that will make little difference to the viewer.
As I've said before, the reformatting of Newsnight is ghastly and valueless and it'd be better just to axe it outright and use the saving elsewhere. If I can guarantee one thing, it'll be that the new version will not 'high quality' or 'consequential'. Considering once-upon-a-time the BBC broadcast longform world reporting on BBC Two in addition to Newsnight, the axing of Our World is a further sign of how far BBC News' scope has fallen in the last two decades.
On the other hand, I fundamentally don't care if the News at One moves to Salford. "It's a box ticking exercise" "It'll make no difference to the viewer". And? Those boxes still have to get ticked as part of the BBC's charter and public service obligations and this is an easy way of doing it that will make little difference to the viewer.