Does anyone agree with me Or am I just grumpy ?

I do not watch television news, just listen to radio news, Radio 4 news in my case.

I like listening to knowledgeable experts and special correspondents. There is nothing worse than some regional football correspondent dropped in to cover a local story on a local univerity discovering a renewable car battery small enough to be removed and popped in your handbag to take inside to recharge. They do not understand the technology, the wider subject and nothing about how electric cars are made and talk total hogwash and rubbish.

Yes, many of the current ways of presenting TV news are quite farcical, but as they are often so humorous it takes the edge off the boring stuff that they are reporting. The serious reports do not deserve such levity however, and the other night a certain political editor pontificating while leaning against a pillar did rather get me going. Another thing that gets up my nose is on breakfast TV, for example, when one presenter passes over to another – such as for a weather or sports report – and some “witty” link has to be used to run one report into another. And then there’s – no, I shall stop before I really get into my stride!

My peeve is when the camera is focused on the side of the presenter's head and they are talking to another camera in front of them out of shot. Not just the news, this daft gimic is used in other programmes! Why?!

I so agree, it's all infuriating and unnecessary. Hand and arm waving, standing outside buildings when no one is going to come out, so it goes on ..... grrr!!

My bugbear (In addition to the walking about thing) is the, repeating half a story a few times before telling the rest of it. It drives me potty!

Tonight on our local news, Peter Levy (can’t stand him) tells us about some woman who has had hiccups for 12 years. Then says this started over 10 years ago! Ffs!

It’s just a technique, among others. Chill out guys.

Hmm the BBC cannot afford to pay for free TV licences for ALL the over 75's - but they can afford to have hundreds of reporters running around all over the country, most unnecessarily. I too wonder what is the point of having some poor reporter(s) out by the coast, putting themselves in danger, getting soaked with rain and nearly blown over by winds. The BBC say they would have to cut services to pay for licences for all over 75s - well, this would be a good start to the cuts! My parents are pensioners but just above the pension credit limit - paying £150 a year (or whatever they are gouging us for at the moment) would be a real stretch for them. I see no reason why the BBC should not either accept adverts or sponsorship for their programmes - with some money being paid to them (as Channel 4) to provide public service broadcast TV such as news and coverage of parliment.

I agree with all comments. I much prefer news readers to sit behind their desk rather than standing in a studio with nowhere to put their pieces of paper. And the man who keeps shouting No Brexit should be arrested for Disturbing the Peace. Does he live on the green outside Westminster as he is always there on every news bulletin? Why isn’t he at home or at work instead of shouting unintelligible words at the cameras? If the reporters were safe inside a warm studio it would mean he had no one to shout at! Standing in Force 10 gales on the seafront always seems a bad idea when the rest of us are warned to stay at home! It is definitely time the BBC saved money and cut many of the unnecessary outside broadcasts!

Humptydumpty that was hilarious! thank you for the laugh.

Does anyone agree with me Or am I just grumpy

You're just grumpy !!

Can't see the point of watching the news anyway - haven't for decades - so when it annoys you all so much, why do you repeat the offence?

Ah Hooty, don't get me started about Peter Levy. Unnecessarily combative with interviewees, patronising at other points...and as for his 'banter' with the weather man...grrrr!

You need help.

SKY news has a reporter standing next to a road in Purfleet, with lorries thundering by.

I agree! I use my hand to try to blank off those presenters who walk about hiding the view they are talking about, especially the presenters who are ugly to look at. Neil Oliver is okay.

As for the presenters who point at the words they are reading off documents! Yuch they make me angry.

The news is on the radio or online so why bother watching the annoying version on the telly?

On the same theme, does anyone else feel patronised when we are given a pictorial representation of what has just been said.
Oh yes, it drives me nuts. 'Boris's Brexit Deal is all up in the air' with pictures of Autumn leaves flying around in the wind.
The BBC News does it constantly, one image after another, as if they're talking to children.
Grrrr!

This is why radio is better.

Very true LondonGranny. It seems as if TV (especially morning) has been dumbed down into a 'magazine-style' entertainment show - not 'news' at all!

I'm glad it's not just me, or me and OH. I can't bear the way they have to stand up for some of the items, umpteen reporters standing outside various buildings to emphasize what they are saying, experts being asked stupid questions . This morning on the BEEB we had deferential tones when a man was asked why he had come to the UK in the back of a lorry . They can't ask questions in a neutral way but need to empathize as clearly we can't make our minds up and be empathetic. They seem to be on a mission with some topics. I just want to be told facts! Is that too much to ask for?

Then there's Kay Burley, she drives me mad. I don't know why; she just does.

And no dramatics please. Leave that to our luvvie actors.

They did it again on the BBC News tonight re Brexit: 'Is there any clear way out of the storm?' Cue a shot of heavy rain filmed today in London. Aargh!

Sorry; forgot to mention 'trigger warnings'. 'This report includes images some might find distressing ' AaaaHHH! We know the news can be upsetting . We are adults and can use commonsense.

I get angry at the way they stick a camera directly into the face of a grieving mother after a disaster. It only seems to happen when that mother is a person of colour in a 'third world' country. The lady has no idea what the reporter is saying. They wouldn't get that close to a European but stay a respectful distance. It's intrusive and demeaning.

I agree Gemini, it is so unnecessary, along with music being played on programmes when people are talking, talking too fast to try and impress, always showing 'previously', taking five minutes to actually start a programme and having to change titles using two or more words when one used to be o.k, e.g. human resources instead of Personnell, I could go on ....... sorry, gone off on a tangent, yes I totally agree with you on the way the news is presented!

Annie I was just about to say the amount of broadcasters who appear to be standing on or very near a main road. It's a good job we don't have the old steam-rollers rumbling by or I'm sure there'd be a few flat newsreaders in the gutters.
These people are pests.