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> it was one of the channel’s headline commissions for its new regional television news show We Are England. This new show replaced the long-running Inside Out regional current affairs series, which was cancelled as part of BBC funding cuts in a decision that resulted in many investigative journalists based outside London losing their jobs.

> Continuing cuts to BBC budgets and deep job cuts, caused by successive licence fee freezes, have been blamed for recent errors in the corporation’s news output, especially in regional English newsrooms.

Lack of funding lead to budget cuts which lead to worse quality journalism which will probably be used to justify reduced funding in the future.

>>wongar+(OP)
Right - BBC is the victim.

> Lack of funding lead to budget cuts which lead to worse quality journalism

Nonsense.

>>wongar+(OP)
Basic due diligence is not a lot to ask. It's their job.

This was a documentary + major written piece. Not a quickly copied press release pumped out for clickbait.

>>JackFr+i2
Can you please follow the site guidelines when posting here?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

>>dmix+fE
You get what you pay for, regardless of what someone's job is