Decline and Fall of the BBC #
April 21st, 2008 | In Worth Considering
I’ve always admired the BBC’s news coverage from afar. Stephen Hugh-Jones says it’s suffering from the same peril as nearly every other television news source:
The BBC has an admirable network of admirable overseas correspondents. Its World Service is still the most reliable radio source of world news, its Radio Four a reminder of the days when the Beeb took being serious seriously. But the news judgment of its domestic television bulletins often strikes me as weird: the editor of the Puddlecombe and Much Chattering Gazette, staffed by two journos and a dog, could do better.