| That first link is pretty damning. You're right, the older images are almost all of hard news. Here are some of the stories I see on BBC News currently: - N Korea threatens to cancel Trump summit - Italy's populists plan to defy EU rules - Body clock linked to mood disorders - Controversial Russia-Crimea bridge opens - Row over World Cup flirting manual - New Girl bids bittersweet farewell - Bank chief sorry for menopausal gaffe - Anne Frank's dirty jokes uncovered - Meghan's dad may miss wedding over surgery - Celebrating mixed race identity - Why is Spanish ham so expensive? - Ghana shoe seller takes on ex-dictator I'd say that the vast majority of these are lightweight human interest stories, several of them are just ID politics masquerading as news and some are both. Why is stuff about TV show New Girl on the BBC News front page? The story about the "menopausal" gaffe turns out to be that a Bank of England governor described some economies as "menopausal, past their peak, and no longer so potent". This apparently is a gaffe worthy of being in the business news section. It's not clear to me why it's even a gaffe to begin with. Do feminists now argue the menopause isn't a biological event at all? Apparently they do, according to some random economics professor at some random university (the BBC loves quoting academics) - "It conveys a rather derogatory view of women. I've never thought of the menopause as not productive". It's really pretty trashy. Very different to how it once was. |