Since the Cost of Living Crisis began, the BBC News Website has utilised a standard format on a regular basis. In order to illustrate the issues facing the country, every national news story like inflation or rising interest rates has been accompanied by a human interest piece - usually one or more case studies of how the story is impacting normal people.
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
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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I wonder would it be worth keeping a compendium or twitter thread of these for future reference? It is genuinely profoundly weird and a media journo picking up on it could make a big difference.
Thank you for this. As a fan of the Twitter account "@BBCBiasBot" I don't generally subscribe to the idea that the BBC's news output is dominated either by Tory stooges or the Lefty Blob, and one should always suspect incompetence before malice. But it would be nice if there was less incompetence.
Great piece. I recall the Dallas Lucas article "https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-62492524" where they steadily ramped up the hype over the piece and arrived at a case where someone who doesn't use gas is whining at the gas company. In the 8 months since you'd have expected net emigration because Great Britain is such a schit place. It ain't the best and is rather gerontocratic and nimby, but the BBC won't report those angles for another 20 years.
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
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.
Here's another one from today: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-63903850
It is amazing that they'd open up a woman who is explicitly saying she has mental health issues, to the sort of abuse she'll get for this.
Online Abuse means never having to say you're sorry.
I wonder would it be worth keeping a compendium or twitter thread of these for future reference? It is genuinely profoundly weird and a media journo picking up on it could make a big difference.
Thank you for this. As a fan of the Twitter account "@BBCBiasBot" I don't generally subscribe to the idea that the BBC's news output is dominated either by Tory stooges or the Lefty Blob, and one should always suspect incompetence before malice. But it would be nice if there was less incompetence.
Great piece. I recall the Dallas Lucas article "https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-62492524" where they steadily ramped up the hype over the piece and arrived at a case where someone who doesn't use gas is whining at the gas company. In the 8 months since you'd have expected net emigration because Great Britain is such a schit place. It ain't the best and is rather gerontocratic and nimby, but the BBC won't report those angles for another 20 years.