Any one else fed up of journalists questions?

I'm with merylstreep - no news watching, check the figures every so often.

Journalists in the UK have lost the plot.

We just don't have any 'news' programs on at all.
I look on line to see what the daily figures are and that's it.

like many others, we turn the tv off after the daily update, the journalists questions are simply too irritating to waste time listening to.
I think some of them (Peston springs to mind, and Kuennesberg) see themselves as 'champions of the people' there to root out all the government's dastardly plans, when the government is trying very hard indeed to do the right thing for the health of the nation, and there are no dastardly plans.They regard themselves as being 'awkward buggers' and expect to be lauded for it, when in fact the questions are repetitive, banal and often stupid.
The Minister doing the briefing and the health experts are unfailingly polite, when secretly they must wish they could give a good kick up the bottom to the questioners.

So glad it is not just us, they are supposed to be educated people, even our GC could come up with better questions and they certainly have better manners than these journalists.

Journalist are just so called shock-jocks nowadays

I think they ask the same questions over and over (perhaps worded slightly differently, but basically the same questions) to the different people who come onto the daily briefings in the hope that one of them will give a different answer. They can then bleat on and say "Oh well, so and so said such and such which was different to what you say - are you in disagreement about what to do?" I'm convinced they are trying to trip up the ministers and health advisors, and I for one, am sick to death of them.
They also ask questions which have just been answered, they really do need to listen more! Then again, as I say, it's an attempt to trip up those giving the briefing.

So true * SuzieQ178*

I often wonder if all the other countries with just as many problems and slow resolutions as us, have as many repetitive questions and drip-drip daily rubbishing from the press?

It seems other countries are all doing marvellous things in record time - I just don’t get how their citizens are dying, just as ours are.

If I listen to one lot, South Korea have all the answers, then Germany, then Sweden, or maybe NZ. People I know in Spain are crowing about how wonderful things are there and that’s with 20,000 dead already and staff in nursing homes deserting residents for dead!

Suzie I couldn’t agree more. Thank goodness for a Captain Tom. This is like a war. Let’s all pull together now. Time for recriminations afterwards.

SuzieQ Totally agree with everything you've said. I marvel at the patience of those standing on the podium when I am shouting at the TV myself.

My thoughts too. Unless they have some answers I don't want to hear the questions over and over! I'm interested in new developments and facts not blame. No one could have prepared for everything that is transpiring. There will be time for reflection on the failures when it is all over. I hope.

The journalists are a bit short of news, other than Cv19.

They have to stir things up , in order to have something to report, because I’m afraid this is a long haul with every day pretty much the same, as far as they are concerned.

The media is about sensation. Well, news, actually.

They are trying to keep their jobs.

I think they are just stopping the questions from falling off the agenda.

Regarding the end of lockdown, it is really important that the government don't rush it through in order to save the economy over lives of the population. Keeping them accountable might help to prevent them from doing that by asking for the criteria they will be looking for before loosening the rules.