Cando wrote: Fri 31 Mar, 2023 21.03
Joe wrote: Sun 26 Mar, 2023 02.05
The BBC News merger stuff is a little hysterical at times isn’t it
100% Some seem to be treating it as a death in the family
The thing I don't get is the absolute persistence of the 'it'll be BBC World News except in name' narrative. At every stage of the phase-in, particularly the 'interim' period of the last four weeks, the level of UK news has been far exceded expecations (and at times been virtually unchanged from the perspective of the UK viewer) - yet a large chunk of members have remained overly pessimistic on this front, and, in the case of one particular member, begun harbouring fantasies that an unparalleled wave of public outcry is going to force the BBC to return the channel to its long-gone glory days.