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[Orangeblossom78]

Is anyone else finding the BBC news quite dramatic at the moment, speculative etc? Or is it just me. It seems to have got worse...

I won't watch it. It is the tv equivalent of the Daily Mail.

I’m finding the opposite.

I too am finding the opposite.

Well it's a pretty dramatic situation we find ourselves in so it's no surprise. Hundreds of people dying every day is dramatic (and awful), I'm not sure what else you would expect.

Today, for example, they have been dramatising / speculating that the highest rate of deaths will be Easter Sunday, and that due to being distanced, there is a high risk teenagers will be sending more explicit photographs of themselves to others.

I won't watch it. It is the tv equivalent of the Daily Mail

Really @MinesaPinot, in what way?

there is a high risk teenagers will be sending more explicit photographs of themselves to others.

Why do you believe this to be too dramatic? Do you work with children/young people? I do, and I don't find this an over the top statement at all. Unfortunately.

Well where do you draw the line between reporting official projections and dramatising? It’s news, not a cuppa with your mates (at safe social distance). Do you want them to not report on things in case they upset someone?

They’re shitting it that a sunny weekend means people will escalate their stupidity and forget the guidance to frolic in parks.

Over 70% agree...

I think the tone of the breakfast programme at the moment is a bit strange. Really heartfelt stories being interrupted for a trite, slightly patronising observation from the presenters. These are weird times and its nice to have some genuine stories from people. Also I hate how the online BBC news just says CORNOVIRUS like its the only thing happening in the world. I think they have a duty of care to show the other things going on in the world - for all our sanity! Sophie Rayworth though has been great.

It's designed to keep compliance, propaganda really

Doom Doom doom young person dead
Then happy war spirit dig for England look at these communities

I doubt that negative effects of this on people will really be reported. Eg suicides

Al Jazeera is a quality news broadcaster with a more global view

57% agree and why did you ask for opinions if you don’t care that people disagree?

You’ve asked two opposing questions which will have different answers.
-Is anyone finding BBC news dramatic?
-Or is it just me?

SOARING DEATH TOLL blah blah.

It's terrible. I second Al Jazeera.

It is soaring. Are people offended by facts?

They do seem to focus on outlying rare cases... But ultimately it's the only source I trust at the.moment

It is soaring.

It's 'rising'. Soaring is editorialising, obviously.

It has become rather 'daily mail' recently. I've just been listening to PM and it had a piece about older people in care homes not being admitted to hospital, presented in a shlock horror, pearl clutchy manner.

Exactly what type of people do they think reside in care homes? Only the very frailest who are kept alive with ongoing interventions and careful nursing. They're not miss marple types sitting sipping sherry, knitting cardigans for the boys at the front and taking gentle strolls in the park most afternoons.

Not at all. I work in the nhs and I wish the public were being shown more of what’s happening here and other countries. It’s terrifying and needs to be taken very seriously.

I hate the bbc anyway but refuse to watch/look it up online ad i noticed the same. All doo. Mongering worst case predictions about how millions of healthy people will die then the survivers will be thrown into a depression where they will die and we will be so much worse than italy and immunity doesnt exist and it will never go away!!! Thats the annoying sort of doom mongering im sick of looking at. Look up professor sekora on twitter much more positive and level headed lol.

Of course it's dramatic. Hundreds of people in the U.K. are dying each day.

OP have you seen the Jon Sopel report on bodies being forklifted in NYC? The BBC is not over dramatising a thing. They are reporting clearly & factually. I wish my NDNs who Clapped for Carers last night watched the BBC rather than having visitors around this morning and going out in their car for the last 4 hours. Hypocrits.

And before anyone cuts in with saying they are reporting facts they aren't they are often reporting worst case predictions and sometimes from a man whos never beeb right. Bbc claim to pride themselves in unbiased reporting but its bullshit. Positive news is also relevant news and should equally be made news.

So if 1000 people die in one day its awful and should be reported on, and equally if scientists think a new drug trial has been working on several trial patients that equally needs reporting on. But you can bet they wont they would rather show snapshots of italys coffins etc instead.

Im fimding aljazeera and sky much more impartial and showing both sides of the coin. On bbc im only seeing bad news.

Over 70% agree...

With what?

TBF - we are living in a bit of a drama at the moment.

What would you like BBC to do?

I think it's helped to regain trust with its reporting

For drama, watch GMB in the morning....