Monday, January 7, 2008

BBC Business Coverage?

Found this gem...

BBC business reporter Declan Curry's role will expand beyond Breakfast to cover all of BBC News' on-air and online business reporting in daytime.
Curry will continue to report for Breakfast but will also report through the morning on News 24 and for BBC One's One O'Clock News...

...Peter Horrocks, head of the BBC's multimedia newsroom, added: "Declan is a hugely popular and respected business presenter. Extending his sharp and entertaining work across two BBC channels and the web will provide a valuable enhancement to our growing business audience."

Growing business audience? Fair enough, Declan does a good job in the mornings and basically reports the facts about the markets and news releases. But does the BBC really think they a growing business audience? The BBC business coverage is pitiful. When they do cover issues it is usually with a heavy anti-business, anti-capitalist, bias and with a poor grasp of underlying concepts. Sky news at least has Jeff Randall who provides a decent analysis of business news.

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