Do you watch the news?

It’s on in the morning as background, I perk up for the weather, local news at 6:30, online around the UK mid afternoon. It is very repetitive.

I do know who they are but would definitely not listen to them any more.
No more trust in BBC - thank goodness they are looking at introducing a new, more independent news source soon who sound as though they will be more trustworthy.
UK Column are more appealing to me - Mon/Wed & fRI

Like Namsnanny, Algazeera and RT are good.

And the BBC have now got rid of Neil. We only watch Ch4 News at night but have Sky News on during the day. If the BBC has a left wing bias news wise I’ve yet to see it, although their comedies and dramas often do. Which is why the new DG is going to put a stop to all that. Sadly.

I do watch the BBC news in the evening but am getting more and more fed up with it.

A lot of people are saying that the BBC news is "biassed", by which they mean too left-wing. Can't say I've noticed it myself.

My beef with news reporting is that the journalists are too supine with politicians. That's not to say they never challenge them but when they do, they often allow politicians to waffle on about what they want to tell everyone.

Andrew Neil is the only one I can think of who really badgers people to answer the question. That's probably why Johnson declined to be interviewed by him during the election campaign.

Politics is life...it affects every single one of us. I need to know what is going on.
And having watched dreadful, ultra biased news programmes all over the world, I assure you that our BBC remains a National Treasure, in terms of giving it to us straight. We tinker with it at our peril.

Don't think it was about 'defendin'- but about illustrating what kind of pompous, not very bright, horrible little man he is.

This is Mark Francois threatening the Chief of Defence Staff that Dominic Cummings will sort him out:

[sigh]
Whilst I don't know much about Francois apart from the fact that he's an MP for somewhere in Essex (is that right?), I think that the Chief of the Defence Staff knew exactly what Francois meant and the way in which it was said.

Why take offence on behalf of a top Staff Officer? They are far more robust than Gransnetters!

Given up on BBC watch ITV 6-7pm then RT. They have this wonderful way on interviewing people, asking a question then giving them the chance to answer!

I agree with Wwmk2

Except when I feel 'up' to it once in a while and tune to Algazeera or RT.
They give other perspectives.

I watch the first few minutes of the FM 's briefing everyday ,then switch off.I cant be doing with the pressitutes asking absurd questions and then the next one asking the same again and again.I dont watch BBC ...theres enough rubbishing of Scotland on there to incite civil war .thankfully my OH agrees and we stay away from the bias and negativity

I watch bbc1 breakfast when Naga is in the chair, love that lady, her choice of fashion however? 'say no more'.

I like to watch the News once a day if possible. It's sufficient to keep up with things but no so much that you feel depressed all day.

At the beginning of lockdown, I watched the News obsessively but I found it ceased to be helpful to me and was very repetitive anyway.

I read the news on line rather than listen. A couple of different news papers.
I only read once a day to keep up to date with the basics of what is going on.

Interesting Susie, thanks.

I have to have my news fix every day, at least two or three times on tv and on my phone.

MF was regularly on TV and radio on anything Brexit related. That’s why his absence is noted. biba I love Twitter - what I like best is the choices you have of who to follow (who to block ?). This has been particularly useful during COVID. I’ve especially enjoyed the tweets of certain FT journalists and commentators. People who don’t use Twitter have a funny idea of what it’s about and how it work.

No I don't. I knew something was amiss when I went into my neighbours house and they were literally glued to the lunchtime news. These are people who would never never have daytime tv on.
From then on they were 2 terrified people. At one time, when several of us met up in the street she had a 6ft pole with her to make sure nobody came any closer!
It nearly broke our very close friendship. So, no, too much news is dangerous.

Just cannot believe that anyone can not know who Mark Francois is, unless living in a very remote area without Press, TV or Internet.

As for Twitter - is anyone signed up to Twitter? I am keeping well away, apart from seeing some quotes posted by others.

It all seems to be biased to me with no in depth studies and items presented in a certain way. I try to read several online papers to help me form my own opinions.

I see there is a proposed new news channel called GB News and the Murdoch corporation is setting up another. Talk of Andrew Neil being on GB News. Are we finally going to get independent news with a Rottweiler approach to all?

Twitter knows everything

I can't tell you anything about Mark as there is a court order keeping it secret. Twitter knows.

Husband watches the BBC news at 1 pm. I see it if I'm in the room with him.
I prefer to read the news online, or listen to it on the radio.

Find the BBC news very tiresome. On and on about the children going back to school. The worst thing for the kids might be the reporters at the entrance!

For the past month or so I watch much less news and feel a lot better for it. At the moment the news whether it be online or on tv seems to be leaning towards sensationalism which is unhelpful. I too have found channel 4 news informative. I watch the local news once a day and read an online newspaper daily.

Friends have suggested that the beeb 'has an agenda'. I must admit I haven't figured out what the agenda might be, but we've begun to watch other channels to get a more rounded view. So I keep an eye on ITV sometimes in the morning, Ch4 and Sky News for variety. I must give Al Jazeera a go too.

As for Mark Francois, I did read about this chump a while ago. The others of course I know and recognise. Who doesn't?