The new BBC drops voting advice and the rock catches coronavirus. This is your TL.DR news daily briefing for Thursday September 3rd. The BBC, a British Institution for almost a century, is today beginning its transition to being a simpler, leaner organisation. This is according to its brand new director, General Tim David.
It has been suggested that the BBC could look into making 20% less content in order to reallocate funds and ensure that they generate the most value. As part of this new drive for efficiency, it's been stated that around 900 roles will be cut. But efficiency is not the only thing the BBC is trying to champion. Under the direction of Mr.
David, the BBC will try and recommit to impartiality. This is already beginning to come to fruition through reports that left-leaning comedies such as how I got news for you will soon be asked as they are unfairly biased against the Tories, Brexit and Trump. The Guardian was told by an insider that right-wing comedians were not seen as very good by BBC producers. This could have led to comedies on the BBC being seen as left-wing and subsequently scheduled to be asked under the new BBC leadership.
In US news today, Inuit and at a campaign stop in North Carolina, Thursday morning, Trump suggested that voters should mail in their ballots and then go to a polling place to see whether or not your mailing vote has been tabulated. If it hasn't, Trump suggests that people should vote in person. Critics, including the Attorney General of North Carolina Josh Stein, said this was an encouragement from the President to vote twice, something that is quite illegal. The President seemed to suggest that the voters checked to see their votes accounts as a way to test the system.
In a statement that the executive director of the North Carolina Board of Elections, Karen Brinson Powell, stated that voters were assured that if they voted by mail, it would show up in electronic database used at polling places. In such a case, they would be prevented from voting person. It is worth noting that intentionally voting twice is a crime. In other news, it has been announced that Dwayne the Rock Johnson and his family have unfortunately contracted COVID-19.
Although they have had the vote for a couple of weeks now, and likely do not have long left with the symptoms, he claimed that he and his wife, Lawman, had a rough go with COVID, whereas his children had a bit of a sore throat and then bounced back. He has asked his news on his big round, Stray State, a way or mask, to protect their families. This is a statement that we hear at deal the unused echo. This news story goes to show that coronavirus affects everyone, and in order to stay safe, you must back to social distancing and wear a mask.
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