BBC Two's Newsnight is to be cut back and have its format overhauled as part of a plan to save money in the corporation's news department.
The long-running show will lose its dedicated reporters, be shortened by 10 minutes and drop its investigative films to focus on studio-based debates.
Surely we do not need more discussion programmes. If Auntie wanted to save money, she could take off air some of those we already have, fronted by prominent, contentious and no doubt expensive journalists. What we need is more reportage (such as tonight's on a failing NHS trust in England) not less.
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