Disappointing BBC COVID-19 coverage
May. 1st, 2020 07:54 amI use the BBC News website a fair bit. It is available without a paywall and less frustrating than Google News though the search is useless. Recently they have been disappointing me with a tendency toward what smells like clickbait. There have been headlines like,
*Update: Ah yes, another was,
†Update: Gah! Fooled again, by,
Will the rest of the UK follow Scotland on masks?and
How close to developing a vaccine are we?and other more important questions I now forget*, where the body of the article turns out to be broadly,
We don't really know.I am no longer fooled by those.† Especially, yesterday I did not bother clicking something that would tell me,
Five things you need to know about the coronavirus outbreak this evening.I mean, really? There are five things that I probably do not already know that I need to know that very evening? How stupid do they think I am? Are they turning into a tabloid? Fortunately this morning their site invited me to submit some feedback.
*Update: Ah yes, another was,
Coronavirus immunity: Can you catch it twice?
†Update: Gah! Fooled again, by,
How the government plans to get the UK back to workwhich, again, is more,
We don't really know.If there is not any news then there is no need to pretend that there is.