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.

[Stickybottle]

We’d have been out of this nightmare far quicker if more people watched it and took heed, far too late now, even for the snipers.
Do some people get a kick out of watching nhs workers suffer the daily toll of what they are currently having to go through because it seems so.

[diddlydo]

How some people on here regard the BBC as "left-wing" just beggars belief. They have been peddling the government propaganda all through this pandemic. No, I'm not denying the seriousness of Covid.

[Ellipsis]

Covid is a war and the intensive care unit is the front line. Of course they're reporting on it.

[New Judge]

//Covid is a war and the intensive care unit is the front line. Of course they're reporting on it.//

They're not reporting on it. They're making an industry of it.

//We’d have been out of this nightmare far quicker if more people watched it and took heed,..//

The problem is that the virus can only be stopped if people are kept away from each other. Many people work in situations where they cannot do so however much they might "watch it and take heed."

[Mozz71]

People would whinge even mpre if the BBC didn't report it. Sadly the world is in an absolute state at the moment. There isn't much good news out there.

[tiggerblue10]

I like Clive Myrie.

No word on Piers 'I love the sound of my own voice' Morgan then?

[New Judge]

//There isn't much good news out there.//

No but there's plenty of news other than hospitals. None of it is being reported.

Hang on! Hold the front page! I've just been watching the latest "news". There was something else. It took about fifteen minutes to inform us what was going to happen in Washington tomorrow. I gave up when the scene was four people standing by the side of a pond whilst a black woman sung some dirge.

[archibaldy]

// there's plenty of news other than hospitals. None of it is being reported.//

How do you know there is lots of other news, if it's not being reported?

[Ellipsis]

> They're not reporting on it. They're making an industry of it.

That makes no sense.

When Kate Adie and John Simpson were reporting from the front lines of various wars around the world over the last forty years or so, did you moan as vociferously then that there was plenty of other news we could be watching?

Here is a war right within our community. Of course the BBC is reporting on it.

[tomus42]

Mozz //People would whinge even mpre if the BBC didn't report it//

Exactly. The same people moaning about too much Covid news would be moaning about not enough Covid news if the focus were to move on to something else.

[New Judge]

//How do you know there is lots of other news, if it's not being reported?//

Because, incredible as it may seem, there are sources other then the BBC.

Let's forget about the excessive coverage. Do you think it's right that camera crews should be roaming round the country filming inside various hospitals, particularly their ICUs? Bear in mind that hospitals are one of the worst places for transmission of the disease.

[naomi24]

Diddly, //How some people on here regard the BBC as "left-wing" just beggars belief. They have been peddling the government propaganda all through this pandemic.//

Has it occurred to you that the reason you think this government is doing such a rotten job could well be because you watch the BBC news? Just a thought. ;o)

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

That’ll be the News programme anchored by that stalwart of impartiality then - you know, Jon Snow, the man who declared ‘*** the Tories’ and when reporting at a pro-Brexit protest said that he had "never seen so many white people in one place". Balanced? Only if your scale is broken.

[bobbinwales]

//I gave up when the scene was four people standing by the side of a pond whilst a black woman sung some dirge//

You mentioned the colour of the singer and a think you used the right term (or should it of been woman of color) as if it was unusual but didnt mention the colour of the four people standing beside the pond.

Any particular reason ?

[fender62]

the bbc just want to make the government look bad not matter what the do, question time for example, i used to watch it yrs ago..not anymore as its become a platform for liberal wokism.

[New Judge]

She was a black woman and I mentioned it because she was black (the same way I might have said "she was a tasty blonde"). I couldn't see the others because they had their backs to the camera looking at the pond and they ere wearing overcoats. I can't keep up with the terms black people prefer to be used to identify their skin colour and I've no intention of trying.

[naomi24]

To address the OP, I agree. Last night’s offering from the BBC was way over the top. Absolutely dreadful.

[dave50]

Always adds to the effect if they linger on the doctor's faces long enough until they burst into tears.

[New Judge]

Exactly, both dave and naomi.

As I mentioned, when skipping through last night's propaganda I noticed a scene from a mortuary. Everybody knows people are dying. Everybody who wants to knows that they often end up in a mortuary. Quite what was gained (other than propaganda to scare viewers witless) by showing such scenes I don't know. I wouldn't mind if it was simply put out under the banner of propaganda: "Here's tonight's government information programme. This is what will happen to you, folks, if you don't obey the rules!" But showing you round High Dependency Units and mortuaries is not news.

[naomi24]

I thought it odd that the lady stacking bodies in the cabinet had only a floppy, ill-fitting face mask over her face. Do the recently deceased not carry the virus?

[diddlydo]

Exactly NJ. That footage was none other than Tory government propaganda and of course the right-wing BBC was instructed by Boris to show it.