The BBC is out of control.

It has too much money.

Parliament is frightened rigid that any attempt to control this monster will lead to the ritual crucifixion on prime time news of any politicians implicated.

Albert Judd, Paris,

Another £550,000 for the licence payer to fund..on top of gross salaries for so called celebs.

The licence fee should be scrapped ... its a regressive tax...the low paid have to pay the same as a multimillionaires and the like. I never see this subject on BBC news though.

anna, camberley,

Why are the BBC wasting license payers money on this unecessary rubbish, just to keep a bunch of overpaid graphics designers in work?

Generally the presentation of the news has got worse over the years: too many so-called "analysts" brought in to the studio and a dumbing down of the content

Matt, Wiltshire,

The complaints are short-term, impatient nonsense. People said the same about the new BBC weather map when it was launched, but now it's recognized to be excellent.

Benjamin, London,

Is it still the old left-wing slanted bias, to a thumping disco beat ?

Phil Batten, Christchurcg, UK

I entirely agree particularly with the hearing destroyer of sound. If you turn the sound to a reasonable level one cannot hear the news!

M. Cawdery, Portadown, Co. UK, EU.

It works out at a cost of £1 for everyone with a BBC TV Licence. Now what commercial company would waste money in this manner!

John, Salford, England

At my 4 year old daughter's school all the kids and Dads had a preview on the assembly hall telly of these new graphics about 3 weeks ago-the designer is a Dad at our school. Although slightly bored, none of the kids or adults showed any signs of fainting and once it was over the kids jumped up and had a good run around.

Markus Holler, TUNBRIDGE WELLS, KENT

BBC is very poor at presentation. It inserts loooong winded and silly adverts for its programmes between other programmes, which more often than not act as warnings not to watch than encouragement. It wobbles that stupid weather map all over the screen so you can't see what's going on where (Sky's weather is so much better). All this because it has so much free money that it can afford the waste. The new designs are yet another argument against the licance fee

John Ledbury, Brighton, England

I love the fact that Lambie-Nairn can charge 550,000 quid to
create “brighter and clearer” red and white graphics, which would be “clearer about the BBC’s place in the world”.

What does that actually mean?

They also charged a fortune for moving the BBC logo from being slightly slanted to having the 3 letters stand straight up.

It seems that Martin Lambie-Nairn can do no wrong.

Paddy, Dubai, UAE

I find it amusing that people associate the colour red with BBC news.

Same colour as the labour party, no?

So it certainly suits their propoganda machine.

Pete W, Bristol, UK

Flashy graphics and incessant music are quite unnecessary - as is the cliche of showing some person walking towards the camera before giving a quote or opinion in close-up. For all the far-flung "correspondents" much of the actual news content looks as though it was determined at a morning meeting reviewing what the newspapers were saying. - i.e. following others, not breaking ground. Frankly not good enough. Who's the editor these days ?

F J Cadman, York, UK

I am deeply distressed that the new design may cause epileptoids to have a fit.

I am always deeply distressed when tiny minority interest groups aren't pandered to.

Take me, for example, I think the graphics should be lighter as I once dropped a TV on my foot, and that left me deeply distressed.

Did I say I was deeply distressed?

Toodle-pip!

Ian, Cheshire,

I reckon both the graphic design and sound design on News 24 peaked around 2003, when both managed to be classy and coherent, and since then it's been a slow decline.

But such a decline is both inevitable in a large organisation and easy to ignore, unless you're out looking for something to get offended about.

What gets my goat is that every half hour or so we get that trail with their narcissistic new business editor bragging about how you can "own" news (you can't Robert, it just exists) and use it to bring down a bank and bring misery to thousands.

Ian Kemmish, Biggleswade, UK

No matter what the BBC did for its logo, people would complain. Everyone's a self-taught marketing professional, doctor, lawyer etc. these days... who needs trained professionals.

Tony, London,

Slicing and dicing and spining - the globe is frighteningly incoherent. It hurts my eyes. Did they check this with the epilispy experts before doing it?

kevin, Lincoln, UK

Hello,

There is neither need for nor sense in these stupid and expensive graphics and other desultory insertions and insolent sensory impositions.

The only civilized way to present the news is to have one talking head speak from start to finish with no interruptions. References to what people in the news have said should be given as quotations or as indirect speech, which is what those constructions are for - the latter is even called "reported speech."

No other voices should be heard, nor any pictures seen, and there should be no vertigo-inducing zoomings or infantile close-ups in the daily bulletins. Outside cameras should be used for a selection of items given elaborated treatment in a weekly news magazine, not for each small item in the bulletins.

Richard Barrett, Calgary, Canada

Is it still the old left-wing slanted bias, to a thumping disco beat ?

Phil Batten, Christchurcg, UK

its yet another example of change for changes sake and bear in mind its us the taxpayer that is footing the bill!

johnathan, BIRMINGHAM, west mids

45 years after it's inception, who would have thought a spinning globe would be a leading logo for the BBC?

Graeme Bird, Lanarkshire,