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Your home on reddit for posting and discussing the news and reporting of the BBC's News arm. Discussions relating to general BBC issues or non-news productions should be posted in /r/BBC or another relevant subreddit.

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6 o'clock News; Is it standard practice that declaring war on Russia & the start of WW3 is an "also in the news" story?

6 o'clock news; the announcement that we are effectively en route to WW3 and approving attacking Russia. i.e. the UK and other NATO soldiers operating weapons Ukraine, that just gets a "by the way" story? After a murder story...

Either the producer is drunk or the government is giving 'editorial' guidance as to not panic the flock.

8 Comments
2024/11/23
20:55 UTC

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Does BBC News have a version for simplified English?

I'm looking for a website that has business news in simplified English for language learners. My students are high-school age. Alternatively, do you know any other websites which have business news in simplified English?

Thanks!

14 Comments
2024/11/01
04:38 UTC

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Exciting News for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing Community: BSL Version of the Autumn Statement on BBC!

I'm thrilled to share that the British Sign Language (BSL) version of the Autumn Statement will once again be available for our deaf and hard of hearing BSL community! This is a fantastic opportunity for everyone to engage with important national news in a fully accessible format.

The BSL version will be broadcast on the BBC News Channel on Wednesday, October 30th, at 12:35 PM. You can catch it on the following channels: Freeview 231, Sky 503, Virgin 601, and Freesat 200.

For those who prefer to watch online, the BSL version will also be available through BBC iPlayer, ensuring that no one misses out on this crucial update.

In addition, subtitles will be available on the BBC News Channel alongside the signed version, providing further accessibility for viewers.

It's fantastic to see the BBC continuing to prioritize accessibility for the deaf and hard of hearing community. Make sure to spread the word so everyone knows how to access this vital information in a way that works for them!

Let’s all make the most of this opportunity and support inclusivity in our media. Don't forget to tune in and watch the BSL version of the Autumn Statement on the BBC News Channel!

So, it’s BSL on the BBC News Channel!

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2024/10/28
22:00 UTC

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Need help finding past aired broadcasts

Does anybody have a recording of today's (October, 14, 2024) segment from about 12pm (central time US) BBC news or BBC america regarding a lebanese reporter, contributor, journalist, or correspondent that spoke about the incident where like 18 were killed in Lebanon who was live on air earlier? If not, does anybody know how I could go about finding this? I've scoured the internet through bbc and all the archives but to no avail.

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2024/10/15
00:53 UTC

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IPlayer cannot play latest news headlines by design in the second half of an hour

When the first half hour of the news is on, I can ‘play from beginning’ , but in the second half hour it will not let me play headlines from the top of the current hour. Can it really be that rubbish, or am I missing something

6 Comments
2024/10/07
23:42 UTC

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Middle East Reporting biased?

Don't want to be rude but is it me or every report Orla Guerin does starts off with a tone that is aligned to doom and gloom? She specialises in war reporting - I get it. But the tone is always sad and depressing. Always sad stories...

18 Comments
2024/09/28
21:32 UTC

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BBC News website - low quality of journalism

I've been following the BBC News website daily for decades and have noticed a decline in the last few years.

  • Too many opinion pieces are presented as news.
  • Too many explanatory articles leave me very little more informed.
  • Too many news articles take too long to deliver the gist of the story.
  • Too many news stories are headlined with a thumbnail of a photo that isn't shown in the actual story.
  • The prominence of stories on the website seems to be determined by popularity rather than news worthiness - and yes, I think there's a difference.

I personally find it frustrating to pick thru the news on the site now. Am I alone?

4 Comments
2024/09/22
17:47 UTC

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How is Oasis ticket problems the opening headline on the 1 o’clock news?!

A couple of d heads wanting a payday to cover their divorces

24 Comments
2024/08/31
12:02 UTC

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BBC News Intro

I've been watching BBC News on Youtube TV for a while and I don't see the 90 second intro, my commercials cut-out and a 15 second countdown starts usually only at the beginning of the program (every hour).

Did the BBC News stop their 90-second countdown? Or is it just Youtube TV?

2 Comments
2024/08/21
18:32 UTC

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Fishing for gammon?

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c15gn0lq7p5o

Headline: “Misogyny to be treated as extremism by UK government”

Meanwhile the sub-headline

Extreme misogyny will be treated as a form of extremism under new government plans, the Home Office has said.

So, yeah, the daily mail readers are still ok to mutter under their breath about the perils of women’s suffrage, as the government considers options to stop the kind of radicalization of young men we saw by the likes of Andrew tate.

Bad enough we’re going to see Jordan Peterson weeping on YouTube within 48 hours about how the uk fascist left government is rounding up young christian men, while Elon Musk subtweets a Nazi claiming there’s a war on white men in Britain, no need to make it so easy for them with un-nuanced headlines ripe for twitter posts.

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2024/08/18
16:40 UTC

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Why is BBC News not in their main studio?

For the past couple weeks or so, BBC News in the UK (BBC News at Six and BBC News at Ten) have not been taking place inside their usual studio which they use (Studio B). Just curious, does anyone know the reasoning behind this?

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2024/08/16
17:08 UTC

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BBC coverage of US election

I find it really strange that every piece of BBC coverage regarding the US election is anti-Trump and pro-Harris. Regardless of personal opinions I just find it uncomfortable that our supposedly un-bias reporting is so heavily one sided.

Am I just missing all the articles which are written the other way?

9 Comments
2024/08/14
08:33 UTC

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How to turn off Olympic notifications but leave on breaking news notifications?

Is there an in-app setting? I’m about to go crazy

5 Comments
2024/08/02
12:28 UTC

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BBC News, do better! Regarding Palestine-Israeli conflict

BBC News, the bias, leading nature and total lack of journalistic integrity from Hugo Bachega, your Middle East correspondent during a BBC News live interview I watched today, July 31 2024, at around 12:50-12:55pm UK time, was shocking.

Your journalist, Hugo, was interviewing a local gentleman within Beirut following the Israeli strike on the city.

As a British-born individual I grew up knowing I could trust the BBC to learn about news and events across UK and the world as impartially as possible within a world of other biased media sources and inflamed social media presences.

However the BBCs coverage of the Palestinian-Israeli war has felt to me and many others I personally know as disappointingly skewed in it's reporting stance - refusing to call the Palestinian people 'Palestine', instead using 'Gaza' or 'Gazans', or referring to death tolls as 'Hamas-run' numbers and using vague terminology to describe the incessant attacks on the Palestinian people, such as your July 13 article titled 'Hamas-run health ministry says 141 killed in Israeli strikes' or your 7 April article titled 'IDF confirms 'decline in forces' in southern Gaza' contrasted to your clearly pro-Israeli leading title, 'Israel on high alert after unprecedented Iranian attack' from April 14.

Taking that context of the BBCs continual vagueness around Palestinian suffering & refusal to level the journalistic scrutiny of Israel and the IDF alongside that of Hamas and Palestine, Mr Bachega's line of questioning during this interview bordered between odd, rude and ignorant.

He repeatedly pushed the point that 'Hezbollah attacked first though, didn't they?' and refused to engage in the discussion about the 100+ year history, originated from our own British empirical rule of Palestine, stating 'let's focus on what's happening now though' to disarm this conversation.

I had in the past considered the BBC to be the gold standard of journalism globally. I can no longer say that is the case. Do better!

11 Comments
2024/07/31
15:47 UTC

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