EastBrisHammer wrote:The whole BBC News website irks me. It's difficult to find any real news among the rubbish. BBC Football isn't much better.
I think the level or journalism as a whole has dropped considerably and is reflected on most news websites but especially the BBC which at one time was the best of the news websites out there bar none. Journalists are just like clones nowadays, copying and pasting news wires from the big news agencies and taking everything as gospel. The emphasis now is not on objectiveness and quality of content, its just about getting the news out there the fastest.
Another big contributor is the level of editorial quality and what is deemed newsworthy nowadays would be laughed at as being newsworthy 15 years ago. At the BBC in particular, I noticed a significant change after 2003 and the furrow surrounding the Iraq dossier and the whole Gilligham report which irked Blair to the point of the government clamping down on the BBC considerably. There were mass sackings, redundancies and resignations not least Greg Dyke who for many was one of the best director generals they'd worked under but was given his marching orders. He was replaced by Thompson who implemented the changes the government had imposed oversaw the redundancies, cuts and resignations to the point where quality content began to suffer, not only on the BBC website, but the BBC in general.
Before all this, I think it was world-class and a leader in so many fields of broadcasting, comedy, sport, news-gathering and programme making. Now IMO, I think it's a shadow of it's former self and it's reputation in the world has been irreparably damaged. You only have to look at some of the garbage it's turning out to see that.