BBC news

[Jeremy]

Actually lozzyloz... now you mention it, I think it's actually the weather forecasters who are dressed in military attire. All very strange!

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

My dear Carnell, Mr Wilde used to write in green ink. Is your new year resolution to tease us? Come out, come out whereever you are.

[Tony.London Suburbs]

lozzyloz Wrote:

- and followed by the weather forecast in Czech?

Have you seen the weather in Czech M8?

[LuLu Too]

Jon Snow is the way to go. Good interview by Alex Thompson this evening.

BBC past its prime.

[EDOldie]

The problem, if there is one, is that both the major channels, BBC,ITV, are obsessed with the Murdoch agenda (aka Sky news). So they don't give a toss about the paying customer, its a game between them all. The triumph of style over substance. Try giving up all news, TV, radio, papers for two weeks, it's very liberating but a bit dull after two weeks.

[Tony.London Suburbs]

EDOldie Wrote:

Try giving up all news, TV, radio, papers for two weeks, it's very liberating but a bit dull after two weeks.

I've given up watching the news for a wee while now.

Do Dear Old Reginald Bosanquet,Andrew Gardner,Alaistair Burnett and Sandy Gall still read the news between them on ITV?

I DO like that young Selina Scott though,she has great potential.

[Cassius]

Italian weather forecasters are all from the military and it gives me great pleasure to see them annoucing the sunshine in their uniforms.

[Moos]

Willow, you are so right.

Amazed no-one has brough up the random word emphasis.

"Here, standing at the school gates of what parents has called 'The Worst School In the World' the message of systematic failure for these children is clear. (drops voice) What the future may hold for them (ungrammatical pause) is less so. Weaselly Rimsqueak, BBC News, Himborough" *

*example made up, in case you aren't familiar with Rimsqueak's work.

[MrOrangeSpangle]

Willow, I agree with many of your points regarding The Day Today style graphics and over gesticulating reporters (they are actually trained to do that - truthfully).

But I reckon BBC News is actually a lot better than it used to be. Take a look at this clip from Charlie Brooker's excellent Screen Wipe. http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=gLdHWng-3v8&feature=related

Check out from about 2'20" in. Lot's of clips from back in the 'golden age' of television news. Truly terrible.

There are lot's of things wrong with BBC news, and rolling 24 hour news is almost universally terrible. The fact is, by their nature, news programmes are effectively thrown together on the day. That's why you have visual cliches of punters looking at photo-albums, leafing through bills, walking through graveyards/the park, playing with their kids in the back garden. Camera crews are sent round to interview people, film them and get the pictures back often in much less than an hour. They are cliches, but time is a cruel mistress.

It could be much worse. Have you ever seen Fox news or CNN?

[willow]

"But I reckon BBC News is actually a lot better than it used to be."

Nah. Don't agree with this arguement. I was recently watching an old video (remember them?) of Naked Gun 2/12 that I'd recorded yonks ago and I caught a glimpse of the 9 o' clock news that was shown before the film. It was depressing viewing. It was a video from only 14 years ago but it was like television news of a by-gone era. The basic quality of the journalism against the crap we see today is plane to see.

[????]

Cbeebies alone is worth double the licence fee....which is good, as it's the only bleedin' thing ever on in my house

[RosieH]

er, Newsnight

I think we only have ourselves to blame to be honest - they're trying to get an audience in - if we all stopped going online for our news and sat down to watch it as we did in days of yore when there were only three channels, then they wouldn't have to go pandering to the lowest common denominator

the BBC still has two flagship news programmes in the shape of Today and Newsnight, try watching / listening to them instead