As I said, some of the reporting is appalling. Some is good. Some excellent. But the BBC has lost a lot of its senior and most experienced journalists in recent years, for a variety of reasons and the replacements haven’t always been equal to what’s required. Sports reporting isn’t as easy as people might imagine, and there are areas where it’s done well. But there’s a lot of guff that goes out that simply isn’t worth broadcasting (and that applies to news as well, where what’s broadcast isn’t ‘news’ but conjecture about what might happen. Inevitable given the airtime that has to be filled). They also dig up some dreadful pundits. The Corporation has cut local radio programming right back, with regional and national programmes shared in the afternoons and weekends. Not strictly adhering to the remit there. They could certainly do better in London, where the news is woeful in its content and presentation. There should be more detailed coverage of City Hall rather than puff pieces about Sadiq Khan’s latest wheeze. There’s zero coverage online about his numerous foreign jaunts at taxpayer expense. Considering he takes a huge chunk of all our council tax there should be more critical coverage (which ITV London manage to do.) Ditto local authorities, where there is clearly evidence of dysfunction, likely corruption and cronyism. All newsworthy and in the absence of local newspapers it should be the BBC that reports this. The defining motto of journalism is speaking truth to power. It’s just not happening now and we are poorer for it.

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Topic	Date Posted	Posted By
Tell him.	11/11/25 13:55:00	Vanessa Smith
Re:Tell him.	11/11/25 14:23:00	David Burke
Re:Tell him.	11/11/25 14:58:00	David Cook
Re:Re:Tell him.	11/11/25 16:02:00	Keith Iddon
Re:Re:Tell him.	11/11/25 17:14:00	Vanessa Smith
Re:Re:Re:Tell him.	11/11/25 18:43:00	Guy Lambert
Re:Re:Re:Re:Tell him.	12/11/25 00:07:00	Robert Ayres
Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Tell him.	12/11/25 19:31:00	Guy Lambert
Re:Re:Re:Re:Tell him.	12/11/25 09:35:00	Vanessa Smith
Re:Re:Re:Tell him.	11/11/25 19:09:00	David Cook
Re:Re:Re:Re:Tell him.	11/11/25 19:42:00	Simon Hayes
Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Tell him.	11/11/25 19:59:00	Keith Iddon
Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Tell him.	11/11/25 20:08:00	Simon Hayes
Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Tell him.	12/11/25 08:06:00	David Cook
Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Tell him.	12/11/25 10:53:00	Robert Ayres
Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Tell him.	12/11/25 13:23:00	Simon Hayes
Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Tell him.	12/11/25 15:27:00	David Burke
Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Tell him.	12/11/25 17:39:00	Simon Hayes

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