BBC News and BBC World to merge

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The criticism isn't about the major breaking stories - it's about the minor ones that matter to local audiences and crucially the time available to the BBC to properly scrutinise politicians and their policies being put through Parliament.   I can't see a world focused channel spending time analysising a health bill for example.

But is there a lot of this at the minute? Maybe I just catch the wrong hours, but I don't recall the last time I saw the BBC News channel dissect policy in a way distinct from the way it is covered on network bulletins. Sure this isn't a particular problem with the channel, a lot of UK journalists seem to view policy as an unhelpful distraction from the Westminster soap opera, but I'm just not aware of it being something that is regularly done in any depth.