Piggchops What I hate about bbc news is all the analysis.
Just tell me the news, just the facts. I can work out for myself what it will mean for me and how it will affect me. I am not interested in the slightest in the opinions of various commentators/analysts/reporters/editors because when you start to do that bias always creeps in.
This. They simply have too many self-appointed "experts" on their payroll. Far too many.
Its the same in sport. I just want to watch the sport and hear the results. I don't want to hear endless extrapolated analysis of what an athlete might just do at some distant point in the future. Its nice that they give ex-athletes good jobs, but why not use them and their budget to show more events, not just the massive ones, but regional championships, and do features on how athletes train? But just encourage them to keep a bit quieter during the events themselves. Clare Balding is the exception. Everything she says is sensible.
Gaby Logan - oh dear, she tries hard but its as if this generic, bland, unnecessary detail filled style has infected all of the BBC except Clare Balding, and the result is so boring. Really interesting programme the other night on genetics in sport, but I would rather have heard more from the experts and the athletes than the generalising pointless "explanations" from Gaby Logan.
But at least she is better than Hazel Irvine, whose lack of knowledge of different sports remains unsurpassed.