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Going back to Newswatch...
Sam Taylor, editor of UK 24/7 & Digital, BBC News, was asked about the Victoria Derbyshire show's two-hour presence on the BBC News Channel and BBC Two. He professed himself "very comfortable with how it sits on the News Channel because of the range of what it does":
It's got a big brief, and I think it's doing it well, and it's actually about ensuring we do move forward the range and scale of what we deliver, and crucially to tell stories that don't often get covered elsewhere.
This week's editions of the programme (according to its website blurb) have focused on:
Tax havens and cage fighting (Monday)Racial slurs, problem gambling and the use of parental leave (Tuesday)Post-traumatic stress disorder among British military veterans (Wednesday)'Chemsex' and how social issues can have an impact on mental health (Thursday)How teenagers are being let down by an over-emphasis on higher education, the 13-year-old who was kidnapped by a man she had met online and Robin Williams' final film, Boulevard (Friday)
I'd say that quite a few of those get "covered elsewhere" pretty widely - especially at the Guardian.
So nothing about teaching of Kafir Hatred in British Madrassas, negative impact of migration on ability of young UK citizens to get jobs, or the impact of huge population growth (resulting from mass immigration)on housing costs then? I think the technical term for a lot of what passes for news and current affairs on the BBC is "displacement activity".
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