BBC asleep at weekends

[saaby93]

Why doesnt closure of key part of the motorway make the news at weekends?
Mate stuck around this
https://www.gloucestershirelive.co.uk/news/chelten...
Or is motorway closure no longer news?

[Electro1980]

It’s not national news.

[Mikebentley]

There have been lots of crashes here at night. I think local kids get on the southern junction from Gloucester and race to the next junction for Gloucester. It has resulted in several fatalities.
In answer to your point re BBC night coverage a friend is/was a journalist who covered Nighttime internet updates for them but they made a lot of them redundant a couple of years back.
Even when he was there I used to think they were crap.

[tangerine_sedge]

PH : the BBC is too huge and needs to be reduced to just a few TV and radio channels.

Also PH : the BBC should have an army of reporters to publish everything that ever happens in the UK.

[HappyClappy]

If it’s not BAME, LBGT+, Brexit bed wetting or an unhealthy dose of covid hysteria then it won’t get a look in on BBC News.

Been like that for years.

[eliot]

tangerine_sedge said:

PH : the BBC is too huge and needs to be reduced to just a few TV and radio channels.

Also PH : the BBC should have an army of reporters to publish everything that ever happens in the UK.

fair

[Byker28i]

How much do you think should be covered? M4 shut 15 to 14 yesterday, causing chaos everywhere, Malborough, Hungerford, Lamboune, as people tried alternative roads...

[gazza285]

Not knowing the M5 is closed is going to ruin my day here in Yorkshire, I was going to go on a nice walk, but now my plans lie in tatters.

[valiant]

saaby93 said:

Why doesnt closure of key part of the motorway make the news at weekends?
Mate stuck around this
https://www.gloucestershirelive.co.uk/news/chelten...
Or is motorway closure no longer news?

Why would a motorway closure for an accident make national news?

It’s on the local BBC twitter feed as traffic information but I don’t think Hew Edwards should be announcing it in a solemn voice.

Road accidents happen every day. They’d never have time to report anything else if they listed all the road closures due to accidents.

[DoubleD]

saaby93 said:

Why doesnt closure of key part of the motorway make the news at weekends?
Mate stuck around this
https://www.gloucestershirelive.co.uk/news/chelten...
Or is motorway closure no longer news?

Thats for local news, not national.

Most people won't care if the M5 is shut.

[Drumroll]

saaby93 said:

Why doesnt closure of key part of the motorway make the news at weekends?
Mate stuck around this
https://www.gloucestershirelive.co.uk/news/chelten...
Or is motorway closure no longer news?

Why would anyone go to BBC news to find out what the travel situation is?

I know some people want to blame the BBC for all the worlds ills, but I don't think this is one of them.

[saaby93]

Someone in the Beeb must read PH and posted up an article
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-gloucestersh...

Surface has been damaged and must be replaced.
Will they be able to replace some of the rest at the same time
What's considered too bad for normal running?

[survivalist]

DoubleD said:

saaby93 said:

Why doesnt closure of key part of the motorway make the news at weekends?
Mate stuck around this
https://www.gloucestershirelive.co.uk/news/chelten...
Or is motorway closure no longer news?

Thats for local news, not national.

Most people won't care if the M5 is shut.

This. I don’t care as I’m not planning on going anywhere near the M5 today.

If I was, do you know why I’d do? Look on Google Maps / Waze / highways agency website and see if my route had any major obstructions.

I wouldn’t watch BBC breakfast in the hope that they’d heard of my epic voyage and we’re making sure I know I’ll be delayed .

[Alucidnation]

Where?

[Starfighter]

I suspect that the report would have been national if it was over a holiday weekend or the first rush of school holidays. A random Sunday is September then not so much.

[ChocolateFrog]

The news app doesn't seem to get updated on a Sunday unless there's a proper story breaking, sport excepted.

[dudleybloke]

A few thousand people protested outside the BBC in Manchester a few weeks ago and that never made the news so it's no surprise.

[bigandclever]

Front page news now

[rdjohn]

The power of PistonHeads - the closure was just mentioned on Radio 2 news

[saaby93]

rdjohn said:

The power of PistonHeads - the closure was just mentioned on Radio 2 news

Most read story on BBC news too

How come Blair and Major not observing social distancing in photo two posts back?