Dear Bbc

[douglas9401]

Please give Clive Myrie half an hour on one of your digital platforms so he can anchor a sob-fest with close-ups of distressed health workers being close-upped to tears and leave the six o'clock news for news.

That item was like watching the worst of American reality guff.

Shameless.

[haras2]

Sadly my friend, this IS the news

[ToraToraTora]

Myrie? Anti British operative of the Anti British Broadcasting Corp? Right oh!

[Atheist]

I think that many deniers need to see this stuff.

[Atheist]

I suppose Myrie would be classed by some here as a 'shroud-waver'. What's wrong with showing the pain of the NHS workers?

[DTCwordfan]

the BBC are actively looking for the negative news - no balance with the positive stories where the vaccinations are really going well (like here in Truro). Yesterday, they 'tried' interviewing one of the senior nurses running a major vaccination centre, all the questions geared at tripping her up.... spirit of the team - great, spirit of the patients - great interaction, enough vaccine - plenty, anybody walked away - no but just one patient who wasn't well and we tested them and they were neg and therefore had the jab.....

It's spilled over into today's figures - balance off the w/end, Aunty Beeb - and I copy what the D-Tel's article had to say today.... https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/01/18/analysis-second-wave-nothing-like-first/ this is about proper balance and information!

It's why I watch Channel 4 - a much more balanced view of what is going on.

[Atheist]

DTC; do you think it wrong to report that NHS workers are suffering from overload and lack of empathy from people like you?

[grumpy01]

I quite like Clive Myrie.At least he doesn’t look like his favourite dog’s been run over when the Conservatives win an election or we vote to leave the EU.

[fbg40]

Douglas
I have no idea where you are coming from - are you a non believer ??
FBG40

[DTCwordfan]

Atheist - I didn't say that - talk about trying to put words in the mouth. You don't work for the BBC, do you? It wouldn't surprise me.

[Atheist]

DTC, I didn't try to put words into your mouth, I simply asked you a question. Please don't take offence and start assuming you know what my job is.

[DTCwordfan]

I was being sarcastic in my comment about your job - which, frankly, I don't give a damn about. And talk about assuming - your question did...the comment about empathy.

The Beeb lack balance - it was/is right to talk about overload etc on the news but, as Douglas said, turning the news into a quasi-reality programme is not on. Make a separate programme. Try watching C4 Aetheist and watch some professional journalism from (ex-BBC) presenters.

[DTCwordfan]

(sorry about the mis-spelling of your name).

[Apc2604]

18.50. DTC.

I so agree with you.

[jourdain2]

The BBC is only interested in bad news. There is plenty of good news around. I do wonder if they are responsible for the massive increase in depression which they happily report with sonorous voices. A statistician on R4 today was debunking the figures which the Beeb and all are using about the no. of deaths. She hasn't been repeated or put to the front of the news. The numbers are very, very suspect. Project Fear again. (Yes, I know it is a nasty disease, I don't deny it.)

[david small]

Frankly we no longer watch the BBC especially the news.
Leftist propaganda from the woke generation.

[fiveleaves]

This is reality in our hospitals. Covid deniers need to watch this stuff

[iluvmargie]

19:13 so do I!

[jourdain2]

Sorry, I gave the BBC too much credit. I was listening to R4 whilst reading the excellent article in the Telegraph and they got mixed-up in my head. Anyway - the figures we are being fed are fibs. I now know 4 people who are furious that relatives who died recently were recorded as Covid - one had a massive heart-attack, but Covid went on the Cert..

[Arksided]

I watched that report before switching over, The lady was clearly upset and yet insisted on following her about, poor reporting IMO but a shame if that's what it takes to get the message home to some.

[fiveleaves]

Oh for goodness sake. Of course, the figures are not false. That is just getting into Trump style fake news stuff.