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Slow News Day?
Jan. 3rd, 2009 12:15 amDear Sirs and/or Madams who are in charge of the BBC News website.
I was just perusing your site before retiring for the night, when I noticed that your 5th most read item today goes under the headline, "Car worth £3m is found in garage".
I find this perplexing! Surely a garage is an entirely unremarkable, and therefore not especially newsworthy place to find a car? Indeed, when I was in need of my own vehicle, which admittedly lacks the stylish lines and price tag of the vehicle in the item (although it is less in-need of a run through a car wash and has climate control, a 6 CD multichanger and cruise control) earlier this evening, the garage was the first place I looked.
Furthermore, I found it first time, in the garage, which was entirely as expected.
As a licence-fee payer, I question whether writing such news stories is a good use of BBC funds, or whether, like spending three million pounds on a car with neither climate control, a CD multichanger nor cruise control, I am getting rather poor value for money.
I appreciate the need for news to entertain, as well as inform, in order to keep the viewer/reader hooked, and can't help but wonder whether a headline such as "Car worth £3 million is found in refrigerator" would fulfil this purpose to more effect than the story in question, as well as being more newsworthy?
Yours faithfully,
Confused of Cambridge (Mrs)
P.S. I trust the green ink is not too difficult to read.
I was just perusing your site before retiring for the night, when I noticed that your 5th most read item today goes under the headline, "Car worth £3m is found in garage".
I find this perplexing! Surely a garage is an entirely unremarkable, and therefore not especially newsworthy place to find a car? Indeed, when I was in need of my own vehicle, which admittedly lacks the stylish lines and price tag of the vehicle in the item (although it is less in-need of a run through a car wash and has climate control, a 6 CD multichanger and cruise control) earlier this evening, the garage was the first place I looked.
Furthermore, I found it first time, in the garage, which was entirely as expected.
As a licence-fee payer, I question whether writing such news stories is a good use of BBC funds, or whether, like spending three million pounds on a car with neither climate control, a CD multichanger nor cruise control, I am getting rather poor value for money.
I appreciate the need for news to entertain, as well as inform, in order to keep the viewer/reader hooked, and can't help but wonder whether a headline such as "Car worth £3 million is found in refrigerator" would fulfil this purpose to more effect than the story in question, as well as being more newsworthy?
Yours faithfully,
Confused of Cambridge (Mrs)
P.S. I trust the green ink is not too difficult to read.
