Lazy and brain-dead BBC reporting...

[Derbygerbil]

... The tabloids do this too but I expect better of the BBC. There have been a number of times they have reported misleading or half accounts. The latest one I’ve noticed is as follows:

“In Spain, 37% of the 166,831 people infected have recovered, in Italy 22% of 156,363, in France 21% of 133,670. In the UK 85,208 people have tested positive, but only 0.3% have so far recovered.”

Does the BBC reporter writing this has such little common sense that they believe only 0.3% of those who tests positive for CV in the UK have recovered? I can’t believe that a BBC reporter is so moronic that they just parrot this without question or engaging their brain. Very poor...

I think the BBC reporting has been shocking, scaremongering and panic inducing. Same as the Daily Mail which has been outrageous in the extreme.

The thing is is it's like Burger says, with our 24-hour society they have to fill up space, hence the repeating the same misinformation and clickbait headlines. It's appalling. Me and DH are just waiting one report a day, and even then it's just the headlines.

I'm reading The Times and enjoying it. The comments are fairly intelligent too.

Same, I stopped paying our tv licence last year and I doubt I'll ever renew it. Whatever your politics you would expect a journalist to look for verified information, or at least a reason why none can be found.

Lol! Here in Scotland my nationalist family refer to the BBC in disparaging tones as 'the mainstream media' and consider them right wing propagandists, with Laura Kuenssberg basically a vile, scheming, little Nazi liar who wants poor people to be dead and Scotland to be vanquished.

I've often wondered if there are people who feel exactly the same, but who think the BBC are extremist lefties. I wonder if perhaps between the two there may be some.... centre ground?

But centrist is now an insult too, meaning 'rich c#@toryandproud

Ye canny win!

Blimey that punctuation did weird stuff! I accidentally hash tagged someone, apologies!

@morriszapp I think they represent the "centrist" unionist faction of the Labour party the most, so yes I can see why left-wing Labour / SNP people would hate them too.

The problem is they just propagate opinion rather than stick to facts... Flying a blimp of Trump in a BBC studio was a new low for me, and I personally can't stand the guy... as soon as you do something like that you might as well not exist as a credible news medium.

When the BBC website first started, I thought it was marvellous. It was my first port of call every morning.

Now, however, it looks... amateurish and often infantile. Every single day they have a story designed to appeal to "young people" as if they are all a homogenous mass, focusing on a "woe is me" theme. I know they are in desperate pursuit of a younger demographic, but they seem to have the impression that young = thick.

Their news journalists seem to lack gravitas/critical thinking skills. Compare with Telegraph/Times in terms of language and presentation of a news story.

I think the BBC reporting has been shocking, scaremongering and panic inducing. Same as the Daily Mail which has been outrageous in the extreme.

I’m resigned to expect it of the Daily Mail, sad as it is, but I can’t accept it from the BBC, not if it deems itself worthy of my licence fee.

BBC online is snowflake central.

When the virus first hit I had a look on the Disabilities area for some practical guidance and support as a physically disabled, vulnerable person. Every single item was about protecting your mental health.

Obviously mental health is an issue that needs to be considered but the whole thing was totally unbalanced. No mention of practical difficulties faced by physically disabled people at all.

Yes, the mental health skew is ludicrous.

but none of the frontline NHS workers I know have PPE yet-they are all still waiting.

No PPE at all? On the frontline working with Covid patients? That seems like the exception rather than the rule.

@IrmaFayLear
Perfectly put. It's woeful that a national and international broadcaster should treat it's audience as if they needed the
most simplistic terms to grasp anything.

As for the ridiculous "they must be doing something right if they are infuriating both sides" theory, its nonsense, -of course they are not. They are just doing most things wrong! .

I gave up both paying for them + bothering with them ,other than a cursory glance now and again at website + at their weather app (which is also quite often wrong ) last year.

100% agree with this post. Except extend it to all media. So many keep saying to me "the news says this" and "the news says that" but I'm like stooopp!! And think about it. You can tell by the questions in the daily update how incompetent all the journalists are

Perfectly put. It's woeful that a national and international broadcaster should treat it's audience as if they needed the most simplistic terms to grasp anything.

Agreed. Also, i remember listening to Radio 1 in early March and after each CV report they laboured the point as though talking to a six-year old in terms like “don’t worry, you’re extremely unlikely to be affected by any of this. Everything’s fine really”... which just promoted a complacency which helped lead to the need for a lockdown.

The website is awful. The same weird niche teen angst stories at the bottom for days on end.

No reporting on the EUS reaction to the virus AT ALL (because its been shocking)

The BBC has really gone down the pan.
Tbh you don’t expect higher standards from the Daily Mail - it is what it is and crucially it is free.
However, the BBC news seems to have morphed into the Daily Mail, with click bait and lifting stories from direct from Facebook/Twitter without proper fact checking. It costs £160 a year for truly dire news reporting and sub standard programming in general.