"It's so gloomy": Some of the top UK broadcasters admit to avoiding news | TV news

sHe is perhaps Britain's most prominent war correspondent, broadcasting from the toughest areas in the world, explaining its most difficult and bloody conflict. However, like many others, when the news agenda is so tough, even lyse Doucet said she found herself tempted to shut down.

"Even if I'm on one side of the microphone, you're on the other side, and you're off the news, not the radio 3, not the radio 4, because the news is difficult," said Doucet, chief international correspondent of the BBC. "We're all thinking: 'Oh, it's so frustrating. It's so gloomy.'"

There has been constant concerns that the war in Ukraine and Gaza and the relentless pace of ruthless stories in the Trump administration will fuel "avoid news", a phenomenon that seems to be combined with the intensity of the current agenda that has long-term declined news. When BBC News recently reorganized, Deborah Turnes told News Broadcasting Head Deborah Turnes that this was partly due to the need to undertake the need to “the growing trend of news avoiding news.”

The UK appears to be one of the most severely affected countries. According to the Reuters Institute for Journalism, the proportion of UK keen interest in news has almost halved over the past decade, from 70% in 2015 to 38% last year.

However, despite the difficulty of reporting difficult world events, Doucet has conducted extensive coverage from Afghanistan, Ukraine and the Middle East, saying it is important to have “a gift for gifts that live in democratic societies” to “represent the values ​​we believe in.”

"It's an important part of us as citizens," she said. "I want to believe that the BBC is also part of the public broadcaster. It's a well-known water cooler that we can all meet together and share our stories, and we can also criticize.

“We welcome criticism, but I think when we feel so many slips, literally the ground below us is shaking and we all need to stand together to what we believe and what we cherish.”

Doucet isn't the only big name talking about finding the news agenda. Jonathan Dimbleby also recently talked about how he worked hard to discuss current news events with the younger generation.

"I used to be a glass," he told the Beeb Watch Podcast. "While I'm increasingly finding myself thinking that most things seem to fit in bad, everything I look at. I don't think it's just age. I think it's the environment and environment we live in.

"I'm in my 40s and only his 50s. They're already very upset about what's going on in the world. If you have a young kid and a teenager who's in a level and a GCS position, they look outwards. They're actually filling. It."

He pointed to a recent interview with the BBC World in which a doctor in Gaza talked about the horrible harm a child caused from shrapnel. "I can accept it, but I backed off it," he said. "I wonder how people usually deal with the permanent horror that comes from there, Ukraine and elsewhere, not just because it's too much, so it's not just leaving it."