Local Politics For Local People
New and politics “where you are”?
The BBC mantra of news or politics “where you are” is wrong. Whenever they say that, I then get shown the London news or poltiics show. I don’t live in Lodon. I don’t work in London. I don’t have a vote in London. Yet I only ever get the London information.
It is annoying, because it simply doesn’t affect me. I live in Watford, Hertfordshire. Not London. So why would I be interested in local news and local politics that don’t affect me at all? And why can’t I get the news and politics that actually affects me, and that I can vote on?
When will the BBC sort this out?
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What about South East BBC ? It stretches from the Isle of man to Latvia for all I know…
Hmm, I had heard (from a local there) that Watford is “dragon country”…
The problem the BBC has is that its own broadcasting regions don’t match political boundaries. Therefore, in reality, they can never be a truly “where you are” service, though at least they do have regional broadcasting rather than exactly the same nationwide.
On this occasion I’d be tempted to allow them some leeway for at least having made the effort; but as for local Watford-are news — I suppose that would still have to come from local newspapers and perhaps any community radion station in the area.
I certainly don’t want any more licence/tax money going to the Beeb to set up and run ever more broadcasting centres in order to become truly local everywhere!