There are occasionally excellent long investigative pieces, sometimes from outside the uk. However, most of the programmes are taken up with 1. ritualistic interviews in which guests are insulted, cut off and generally treated with contempt. 2. Exhausting over- analysis of current affairs from a uk
perspective.
Presenters enjoy grandstanding, plainly seeing themselves as not just journalists but moral arbitrators of immense importance.
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Issues selected by program producers trace the items in The Guardian, a leftist paper.