Old news appears to be new news.

[2greys]

A report in the BBC today is touting that Regenoron is a new lifesaving treatment. Yet it was Regenoron that was used on Donald Trump's infection of Covid at the beginning of Oct 2020. 9 months ago. That fact was even reported by the BBC itself.

bbc.co.uk/news/health-54418464

So it appears that the BBC is manufacturing headlines no different than the tabloid press do, relying on peoples short memories. Or is this an example of Trump's 'Fake News' that incidentally he accused the BBC of?

express.co.uk/news/world/76...

A very strange world we live in, who can really tell what the real truth is anymore.

[Jaybird19]

Do you believe anything that trump says or does. ?

[2greys in reply to Jaybird19]

No not really or any politician, but equally, neither do I believe all that the BBC says. How can anyone know the real truth, we are constantly being fed with propaganda or blatant lies from all corners.

[Bevvy]

Have long questioned the BBC ethics and impartiality. Would not be surprised that manufacturing headlines.

[Hidden]

I saw this earlier and rolled my eyes for the same reasons - it’s not news! The stats are also exactly the same, so further research hasn’t actually yielded further information.

I concluded a few years back that there’s just no such thing as impartial and unbiased media. Every organisation and channel has an agenda of some description. I massively object to paying the licence fee and refuse to watch, listen or read anything funded by it on principle. I’d quite happily not pay it and stop receiving any channel or programme they produce in-house, but I suspect they won’t go down that route because they’re well aware that they’d financially collapse with the immediate, mass exodus. They’re already staring down the barrel with the increasing use of downloading/streaming providers over watching live tv.

[2greys in reply to Hidden]

I am absolutely positive that there are more newsworthy stories in the world than this. It is just being lazy and cheap, to use regurgitated old news like this, in a new package, to artificially inflate their content. A little like their TV channels, full of repeats. Personally I would call it as being misrepresentation to call it news and then they have the barefaced cheek to call themselves as being 'the most trusted source of news'.