I don't think the BBC should be criticised for not breaking the news instantly. I always think it's better to follow the phrase "better to be safe than sorry". I don't think it is worth the risk for the BBC to break news stories without it being clearly credible.
SO WHY ARE THEY SPENDING MONEY RUNNING A 24 HOUR NEWS CHANNEL?!
I don't think the BBC should be criticised for not breaking the news instantly. I always think it's better to follow the phrase "better to be safe than sorry". I don't think it is worth the risk for the BBC to break news stories without it being clearly credible.
SO WHY ARE THEY SPENDING MONEY RUNNING A 24 HOUR NEWS CHANNEL?!
My lord.
To offer accuracy.
Why are you so scared of Murdoch having competition.
I don't think the BBC should be criticised for not breaking the news instantly. I always think it's better to follow the phrase "better to be safe than sorry". I don't think it is worth the risk for the BBC to break news stories without it being clearly credible.
SO WHY ARE THEY SPENDING MONEY RUNNING A 24 HOUR NEWS CHANNEL?!
My lord.
To offer accuracy.
Why are you so scared of Murdoch having competition.
Goog grief
But Marcus, they are constantly bleating about how ''when things are unfolding quickly we can't be accurate, so we don't report things that the other networks do'', so why bother at all?
What they're essentially saying is that they aren't going to report information if they don't know it's accurate - fine, absolutely. But if you're going to do that then what realistic hope do you have of putting together a decent rolling news service? They may as well just leave it up to the regular bulletins on BBC One and wait a couple of hours until they know for certain what is going on, rather than running a channel that has a remit of not pioneering or fearless journalism, but which instead spends all of its time on the defensive because it's so terrified.
Sky and ITN have been 100% accurate on the build up to the story, so let again the Beeb look stupid. I'm not sure what it says about them when they acknowledge publicly that their two main rivals can confirm major stories that are happening there and then, but they can't.