TV news programmes, do they think we're stupid ?

[johnelliott]

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Occasionally I watch the news, mostly BBC because I find their programmes the least offensive. However, even the BBC have a lot to answer for,

e.g.
Sentence swapping- On breakfast TV always a male presenter and a female presenter. They start a new topic and they take it in turn to read sentences from the autocue. Why do they do that? Anyone else find that irritating?

Reporting on Liberal party conferences etc. Who cares? who does it matter to? and yet they will waste hours on this kind of irrelevent rubbish

Agressive interviewing- something happens, they get someone on to talk about it, they wait til the person is halfway through a sentence in reply and then ask another 'searching ' question. When they've finished mauling the first interviewee they get someone with an opposing view and do the same thing to them. We hear virtually nothing about the salient points of the argumemnt, just interviewees doing their best to defend thenselves. Channel 4 news is particularly bad at this kind of thing.

Use of emotive terms to distort the truth- an excellent example recently with the exam re-grading thing. Each time the topic is introduced it will be 'exam marking fiasco' and the subject will be reported with the obvious implication that some bad b*stards have tried to ruin the lives of every student but fortunately the 'Media' are galloping to the rescue and will drag the guilty parties out to be suitably punished.

Listening to the news one soons gets the impression that they think the only perfect people in the world are the people who make the news programmes

John