The fearless Martine Croxall (Bablake School and BA Geography, Leeds) is using social media to drum up support for the BBC News channel, on life support until the end of this financial year.
The presenter points to a new petition to "Save the BBC News Channel from closure". It proponents say "BBC management is claiming there's been no pushback from viewers since the announcement about the planned merger in July. However, it seems they may not have been entirely transparent with viewers about the extent to which UK news coverage will be cut back."
Indeed, the word merger might seem misleading even to the quasi-legal minds of the BBC Editorial Policy team. From next April, UK viewers will get an ad-free rebroadcast of a new commercial channel called BBC News, with overlays of some content from BBC1, BBC2 and Radio 5Live, and occasional forays onto the air by a standby team when something domestic but big, happens. Like a drought, perhaps, or a heatwave, or an energy crisis, or runaway inflation, or a struggle for the role of Prime Minister, or a crumbling rail service, or Heathrow's failure to fly, or a new Covid jab......
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