Here's a little rock to drop in the pond of the BBC's Delivering Quality First review. Is Newsnight value for money ?
The old warhorse is staggering along with around 750k viewers on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. When it gets to Thursday, BBC News shoots itself in the foot by scheduling Question Time against it on BBC 1, and the Newsnight audience has been as low as 400k. This against an expensive roster of presenters, a team of dedicated correspondents, who appear nowhere else, and the fact that half the show is blacked out in Scotland for their special tartan bit. Then of course, we pay to ship Newsnight review guests up to Glasgow on a Friday night.
It keeps the Twitterati engaged over their port and Horlicks, but will Bob Shennan, leading the "doing fewer things better in journalism" group, take them on ?
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