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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...

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

Both of those things are highly probable.

Thought Laura kuenssberg was appalling this evening on the topic of DNACPR. Would it have taken her 10 minutes to find out want CPR actually involves, how brutal and futile it usually is?

Think a huge part of the problem of the BBC at the moment is political correspondents reporting on things they just don't understand. Where are the health and science correspondents???

I am being pedantic I know, but around 1400 people die a day in the uk anyway, even when we aren't suffering a pandemic. @SoupDragon

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

Aren't they reporting on the positive ways people are pulling together, the good work being done by scientists etc.

They agree you are being unreasonable.

Actually the Guardian headlines are also rather negative.
I can no longer bear it

Only bad news and then this patronising dig for England type stuff.

Newsnight has been good though Emily maitliss doesn't take any shit

I am being pedantic I know, but around 1400 people die a day in the uk anyway, even when we aren't suffering a pandemic

You are being pedantic.

Where are the health and science correspondents

The health correspondent was on the briefing today.

I don't watch the bbc but check on line with their local "news" most of which is 4/5 days old. It's pathetic

I am being pedantic I know, but around 1400 people die a day in the uk anyway, even when we aren't suffering a pandemic

That's not being pedantic, it's being stupid.

around 1400 people die a day in the uk anyway

All from the same thing?

BBC news is the actual picture which comes to my mind whenever I read the phrase “clutches pearls”
They are like that middle class kid at uni who tells everyone they’ve never been on a bus before

The health correspondent was on the briefing today.*
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And yet BBC political correspondents (with zero understanding of the issues) are reporting today on the complexities of advanced care planing in the most sensational way possible.

I listen to the daily briefing by the Scottish First Minister and that's it. (I'm in Scotland). She comes across as factual, not too dramatic, but getting the seriousness of it across at the same time.

The news seems to swing between death and disaster one minute and cheery upbeat the next. I find it unsettling.

They seriously need to involve people who understand the complexities of DNAR and end of life issues.

around 1400 people die a day in the UK anyway

Yes & they are still dying. Cancer, heart disease, strokes, diabetes deaths haven't been put on hold. That's why a 50% + increase needs to be reported as it is dramatic. Perhaps if more people listened & got the message, my local police officers wouldn't be having to stop groups of idiotic teenagers wandering the streets as though CV-19 is happening somewhere else.

It’s does seem to have morphed into the daily mail. Used to watch it but I’ve given up. I read the Times once a day now and that’s enough news for me.

they seriously need to involve people who understand the complexities of DNAR and end of life issues

Oh absolutely this yes!!

Dh (hospital doc) and I sat,fairly gobsmacked I might say, through a bbc report last night where a man with quite advanced muscular dystrophy was demanding the right for all disabled people to have the same treatment options for Covid 19 as healthy people. The bbc seemed to be promoting this idea - it was bizarre the way it was reported.
The NHS isn’t going to write people off just because they are disabled, but difficult decisions get made every day in hospitals about who is suitable for ventilation and CPR - irrespective of Covid 19. It’s not like usually everyone would get ventilated, there are always patients which are not suitable - often because you would never get them off the ventilator successfully.
I understand they wanted to convey the message that disabled people are scared but the reporting was frankly rubbish.

I think news programmes in general have become like the tabloids. Everything is speculation or reporting what a newspaper wrote.
Speculation about what The Queen might say in her address to the nation this weekend. Why don't they just report on what is said after it actually happens?

Both of those things are highly probable.
But they are speculation - not reports of what has happened.

Last place I'd look for news these days I'm afraid.