Saturday, September 17, 2005
Dear BBC,
I'm as happy as the next blogger that we won the Ashes, it's probably the most important thing to happen to the English game since the last time we won it, but could you stop using that to fill the dead space on News 24. Why not fill it with news about other places in the world. Why is it that the news on the regular channels is too short for in depth yet a twenty-four hour news channel often suffers the same problems? I mean, Newsnight and Panorama often spend more time on a topic than News 24 yet they're only on for half an hour a night/a week. What gives?
And it's amusing that the 'In Depth' feature on BBCi, your digital replacement for Ceefax, gives a few reports which are perhaps two or three hundred words long rather than the sixty or seventy word length of most of your normal reports. Is news such a discredited televisual form?
P.S. And VH-2, what on earth has Paul Weller done to his hair? I mean, obviously he's dyed it, but I can't quite figure out why he'd freely choose that colour...
I'm as happy as the next blogger that we won the Ashes, it's probably the most important thing to happen to the English game since the last time we won it, but could you stop using that to fill the dead space on News 24. Why not fill it with news about other places in the world. Why is it that the news on the regular channels is too short for in depth yet a twenty-four hour news channel often suffers the same problems? I mean, Newsnight and Panorama often spend more time on a topic than News 24 yet they're only on for half an hour a night/a week. What gives?
And it's amusing that the 'In Depth' feature on BBCi, your digital replacement for Ceefax, gives a few reports which are perhaps two or three hundred words long rather than the sixty or seventy word length of most of your normal reports. Is news such a discredited televisual form?
P.S. And VH-2, what on earth has Paul Weller done to his hair? I mean, obviously he's dyed it, but I can't quite figure out why he'd freely choose that colour...
