‘It’s so gloomy’: some of UK’s top broadcasters admit to avoiding news

<p>Likes of Lyse Doucet and Jonathan Dimbleby say they have at times turned away from current affairs </p><p>She is perhaps the UK’s most prominent war correspondent, broadcasting from the world’s toughest regions, interpreting its most intractable and bloody conflicts. Yet, like many others at a time when the news agenda is so tough, even Lyse Doucet has admitted she finds herself tempted to turn off.</p><p>“I just want to say as a broadcaster that even though I’m on one side of the microphone and you’re on the other, that I too have been turning away from news and listening to Radio 3 instead of Radio 4, because the news is difficult,” said Doucet, the BBC’s fearless chief international correspondent, as she picked up an award last week. “We all think: ‘Oh, it’s so depressing. It’s so gloomy.’”</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/may/08/uk-top-broadcasters-admit-to-avoiding-news">Continue reading...</a>