Poor news Coverage - switch off or complain?

Is Laura Kuenssberg aggressive? Jeremy Paxman is aggressive but he is to the point and can get answers (not always!). I think Laura Kuenssberg is just rude to cover her inadequacy as an interviewer. But to get back to the OP - thankyou for making me think a bit harder about this.

Switch off? I have not been switching on for a long time now. News used to be and should be about facts not opinions. And we ought to be getting those facts as they happen, not days later when the BBC realises that they are so far behind.

Have a look at Wikimedia. This new news site wil concentrate on factuak reporting and has signed up reporters for doing just that. It is early days but I find it encouraging so far.

I agree with the above comments, and feel we should complain more.

Laura Kuenssberg is far too aggressive, along with other media reporters.

One instance of - in my opinion - biased and unfair reporting - was regarding Theresa May's recent speech at the Conservative party conference.

She had a cough, which was very unfortunate, also the stupid idiot who thought he was being ever so clever handing her a P45, then the lettering falling from the wall.

A series of unfortunate events, but whether you agree with her policies or not, none of these events were her fault. Yet every newspaper headline, BBC news coverage, and interviews have pillaried and mocked her. None giving a fair account of her policies.

It seems the media these days are making the news, rather than giving fair non-biased reporting.

I am definitely going to complain more often.

Don't get me started.....Laura Kuenssberg....so aggressive and unprofessional ... I cannot take her seriously... really cannot stand her. Thankfully John Pinnar has been covering most of the political news this week, with a smattering of Kuenssberg which is when I switch off!! John Humphrey's is a pussycat compared to her. Personally I stick to Radio 4 for news and current affairs.

Same as Jane10

I think I would just turn over, I think that sometimes the news channels let you know what they want you to know, not what you need to know!

I don't bother complaining anymore as the answer I get makes me more annoyed than what I had originally complained about

I've simply reverted to radio. Much more in depth and rattles the grey matter into much needed action as well as the imagination. TV is too graphic and sensationalist nowadays. Seems to think a pre cursor statement of 'some content may upset or offend' covers all extremes of unnecessary awfulness will suffice. No longer for me, thank you

I agree with you Imperfect. The way the news in Las Vegas has been handled by the BBC is atrocious. They have concentrated on the sensationalistic and have fed on people's voyeuristic tendencies. It is car crash tv. I haven't written to them but may well now do. All their news reporting is the same eg the handling of Theresa May's speech. It is becoming very much like Jeremy Kyle who in my opinion should be hung drawn and quartered!

I am disappointed that the news shows such graphic things so early in the day, what happened to the thought that we might protect our children from the worst aspects of life?

Breakfast television is just salacious covering terrorist attacks, and who died ,and their funeral arrangments etc, yes we can switch off, but that means the services which include time checks, travel updates etc are lost because some viewers apparently cannot get enough of repeated gore.

I rely on radio more and more and even some of that is getting too much now. ther are no standards and few options. I wish there was a cheerful channel, no wonder the nation is so depressed non stop gloom being broadcast.

What really gets up my nose is Sport labelled as News
I know lots of people love football but News? No not really

I am really tired of gratuitous news coverage, the more gaudy seemingly the better. All channels seem to think it's ok to show and repeat it ad nauseum. Think of the two towers coverage, it was terrible that we could see the horror up close and personal. It was like being at the games in Rome, it shouldn't be used like entertainment.

We can't all expect the News to suit our own sensitivities Switching off is an option but not one I favour.

Same as Jane10

I don't expect any one news source to be perfect and in accordance with my own opinions. I read newspapers, tweets from people on the spot at the time of whatever incidents are ongoing, watch BBC and Channel 4 news sometimes and distil the essence from all that thus informing my own view of the world and what's going on in it.

To be honest I just switch-off ..... it would take up too much of my time to complain about the many things that annoy me!

My two main bugbears, which I've discussed on GN, are the obsession with internal American politics e.g. leading the news with the latest resignation of a functionary in the West Wing, along with detailed coverage of the two-year US election campaign.

The other is, leading the news with the details of what so-and-so is going to say later today or tomorrow; that's PR not news. Fair enough if a resignation or military action is in the offing but it's usually just new policy statement.

By all means have these things in the programme but not as leading stories.

Our news stations are simply not up to the job and tantamount to Trades Description when using the word 'news'.

I often mention how our news stations are both lazy and behind the times , especially when it comes to World News.

The amount of times I note the BBC will run a story that has been aired on say Aljazeera days before. They have supposedly overseas correspondence but hardly ever use them , they just keep going over and over the same old .

Our news stations have become nothing more than political mouth pieces of late and I think the standard of interviewing has become aggressive and lacking in intellectual questioning. They prefer to stick with reporting on a cough, a bacon sandwich or wearing a suit rather than having to ask in depth questions of substance or interest.

Could do better!

Up to now I've been a switch off person but after this post I think I will become more active. After all if we accept poor news reporting then that's what we'll get. Thanks Imperfect. You've woken me up to an issue I'd just accepted. If enough of us make a fuss then they might take notice.