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Gino t's avatar

The BBC News website has been very "mid" for a while. The "real" journalists are often crowded out by the sludge of articles that you example above. There's lots of virtue signaling about local journalism and local radio but in reality no one reads or listens and it does a disservice to the BBC that regional departments are allowed to post on the BBC News website. https://twitter.com/jimwaterson/status/1491762527503622149

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If you watch their television news output, they've had this same frame for a while. As soon as virtually any government policy or event is announced, they either do a clutch of vox pops (pretty standard practice) or - increasingly - go to some business or charity or something and ask people there what they think. I remember after the Autumn Statement they were talking to three workers in a greasy spoon in I think Nottingham. It's profoundly strange. I don't understand it.

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