BBC News: Presenters & Rotas

Having been at the recording of this last night I’m interested to see how they are editing it down. The podcast and radio editions seem to be about 50 minutes long. It will be on Five Live at 1000 on Sunday.

No doubt all the positive things discussed about Brexit will be removed so we'll have 25 minutes of Brexit bashing and negatives.

Maybe they will do a seperate show listing all of the positive things about Brexit. A 10 second podcast should do it.

Why do we need a brexit debate at all, surely that is basically every episode of Question Time since the referendum?

I caught the last five minutes of it. Had all the presenters been drinking or something ? It looked to be a bloody awful show, Kuenssberg in particular seemed to be totally full of herself. Maybe it would have seemed better if I'd have been drinking too ?

In your eyes, maybe.

Breaking news, people have different opinions!

Without getting too political, the point I was alluding to is that so many of the alleged benefits have been shown to have been fantasies, and those who promoted Brexit now seem to be on the back foot doing a damage limitation exercise rather than talking up the benefits of leaving.

It's not biased reporting not to be able to find positives that don't actually exist.

Look on Twitter and you see people complaining about bias to BBC presenters and staff all the time, from both sides of the Brexit fence. Personally I have no issue with the BBC coverage, I think people generally just don't like it when they hear things that don't match up with the way they like/want to see it.

Bias is reading The New European or the Leave.EU website which are targeted to each side of the debate.

A lot of cries of 'bias' are just that, people going 'how dare you criticise my side' or 'how dare you broadcast a point of view that's not my own'. There should be no sacred cows, the news media should hold every side to account, it's just peoples own cognitive biases that mean they sometimes don't see the whole picture.


My only problem with the BBC's Brexit coverage is that they're too scared of certain other media outlets and aren't properly covering all the big issues that are arising from the process. I don't think they (or the rest of the news media) are challenging the government enough or giving the other side. Which they should be as not matter what side you're on, Brexit is the biggest single change this country has seen for a long long time.

Virtually daily there's a warning about an industry or company who will be affected, but they're not reported by the BBC, or much of the news media. I can see a bit of a backlash if the worst case scenario happens and people say 'why weren't we warned?'

I'm still waiting for World War Three and the Emergency Budget.

I'm not sure what's been "shown" to be a fantasy in any case - we're still in the negotiating period.