‘It’s so gloomy’: some of UK’s top broadcasters admit to avoiding news
Likes of Lyse Doucet and Jonathan Dimbleby say they have at times turned away from current affairs
She is perhaps the UK’s most prominent war correspondent, broadcasting from the world’s toughest regions, interpreting its most intractable and bloody conflicts. Yet, like many others at a time when the news agenda is so tough, even Lyse Doucet has admitted she finds herself tempted to turn off.
“I just want to say as a broadcaster that even though I’m on one side of the microphone and you’re on the other, that I too have been turning away from news and listening to Radio 3 instead of Radio 4, because the news is difficult,” said Doucet, the BBC’s fearless chief international correspondent, as she picked up an award last week. “We all think: ‘Oh, it’s so depressing. It’s so gloomy.’”
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