Analysis

I'll try this again. Whilst the current high viewing, listening and online figures for BBC News are gratifying (but not unexpected), there's still room for more analysis.

Today's live Government presser is now scheduled for 4pm; yesterday's came at closer to 4.45pm. They're going to be variable in quality of content as well. The BBC should provide an hour long update, largely an edited and explained version of this presser at 8pm weeknights on the News Channel, with a single, thoughtful editor and a regular presenter. We move too soon into "as we know, the Government has..."; people need to catch up.

The top of the 6pm yesterday was impressive and assured, but many of the pieces that followed didn't/couldn't take cognisance of the changes - apart from Lucy Manning's ludicrously long mike pole. The clearly influential Imperial College report didn't surface much on the BBC until Newsnight (briefly) and then this morning.