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To be cut by 10 minutes, lose its investigative teams. To save a paltry £7.5m a year.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-67564479#comp-comments-button
Genuinely gutted about this. Always watched it when I can and seen it as the jewel in the BBCs news & current affairs programmes. Sad that this should go but pantomimes like Question Time and Sunday Morning Kuensberg continue.
Question Time pulls 4-5 times the viewers, and with Newsnight dropping below 300,000 it's inevitable.
The public gets what the public wants nowadays; Kirsty Wark jumped at the right time.
Investigative journalism is only going to be an audience puller when it's spectacular and must be properly spendy to put together - see also Panorama I'd imagine. But 'to me' it feels like what my licence fee should be paying for even when I don't watch it.
They started pulling the plug ages ago first with several editors then local good jurnos.
A few top ones where very vocal about what is happening apparently we all want buzz feed(ironically)& Facebook for our needs and peoples opinions are more important apparently.
Just reporting on the current issues would be ideal tbh, the top 10 on the beeb news page looks like a local Facebook page written by bots most days.
Sad really
France 24 has better coverage of UK news than the beeb now .
I’m sure that getting a Rottweiler like Victoria Derbyshire on to properly hold government ministers to account and taking none of their shit had nothing to do with the decision
BBC news and current affairs programming really is a sad, pathetic shadow of what it used to be
Yeah Vic Derbyshire has been superb. A breath of fresh air when covering Kuensburg on Sunday morning.