Does anyone else get irritated by all the ''magazine'' shite on the BBC new website?

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Currently there's a ''news'' story on 'Tyler Perry, billionaire, opens up about mid-life crisis'. I have absolutely no idea who he is and I definitely don't give a shite about his mid-life crisis.

I feel like if I want to see the real news of what's happening in the here and now, I have to go to Sky News.

YABU - I like reading all that shite, and if you don't, just don't read it.
YANBU - The 'educating the plebs' vibe on BBC news gets on my nerves too.

YANBU! I don't even go to the BBC website for news anymore.

^ Bless you, my child.

I’ve been moved to look up Tyler Perry on Wikipedia. He is a director and actor, apparently. The “early life” section is shockingly sad.

Yanbu though!

I agree with you but also think the BBC is shite in general these days - it's a government propaganda machine

YABU - I like reading all that shite, and if you don't, just don't read it.

If the BBC website was a commercial site, I’d say scroll on and read something else. But it’s our licence fees that fund it, so it seems pretty ridiculous to me that the public are coughing up for third-rate journos to be churning out “Is it cultural appropriation to make onion bhajis?” or “Why it’s a problem to describe a woman as ‘feisty’”. Meanwhile, stories that have broken across the world finally appear on the Beeb’s site an hour after the rest of the world knows. I remember when Cilla Black died, I honestly thought it was a hoax at first because there was no sign of it anywhere on site for ages.

Time to massively trim the magazine fat and concentrate on making sure they’re not a laughing stock for trailing hours-old stories as ‘Breaking News’.

I agree it’s awful, and I love the bbc for its documentaries and radio 4, and bitesize but the news is so bland and low on detail.

Don't read it then!!!!

When the BBC website first started, it was amazing. Now it has dumbed down to unbelievable depths. It resembles Newsbeat or Newsround, and every single day has a bar of misery along the bottom featuring people with strange ailments/issues... almost like Take a Break for millennials. Also all stories have a very simple explanation accompanying them eg “What is a European country?” Or “What is a flood?”

Clearly they are chasing the “younger” person, but as ds observes, why is their target market the Love Island contestant?

Their target market is the entire population as they are funded by the license fee as a pp said. This naturally means that there is going to be some stuff for you and more stuff not for you.. but it will be for someone.

Oh and if the BBC are slower with news that's because they double-verify their sources, unlike some commercial 'news' outlets who eg reported terrorist activity at Oxford Circus station as some C-lister tweeted it. If you don't like the BBC news that's fine; there's still the education, drama, radio, arts, kids' programmes, orchestras, natural history, comedy, food...

Their online news reporting has no substance or relevance.

Not really, I like it

Case in point today. I came out of the gym to a ton of notifications on my phone about the South East going into Tier 4; clicked on the BBC’s live update link, and their big story was... eight nuns in a US care home dying within a week. Obviously that’s sad, but surely it’s not more important than the latest on restrictions in a country of 60 million? The country that funds said website?

Ds said it was like Ripley’s Believe It Or Not as they are constantly on the search for weird and wonderful people affected by covid, eg “How covid has affected former circus performers identifying as werewolves” ...

YANBU The journalism on that site is absolutely pants! Some really poor writing on there. Shame. I get more intelligent responses to current affairs here on MN.

Agree it’s dreadful. And some embarrassing efforts to crowbar woke nonsense into the page every day. Someone’s got a quota to fill.

Agree. I used to love the BBC News website, trusted it and read it every day. No more.

If they’re not parroting on about how “oppressed” trans people are they’re promoting their own actors and TV shows or presenting comment as news- a prime example of something that was “fixed” when it wasn’t broken.

I always used to defend the BBC, but no longer.