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Hello, we had a message on the newscast Discord channel where you can talk about the podcast

from Nicki Man, who said, just listen to YesterDee's newscast, which was exclusively about

the COVID inquiry, very interesting episode, but I would have thought some mentions should

have been made to YesterDee's main news story, the shocking events in Nottingham.

And you know what, I've been thinking the same thing too, and I thought this would be

a good opportunity to just explain some of the factors that go into making newscast.

So number one, the Nottingham story was unfolding all throughout Tuesday, and it took a little

while to really work out what had gone on.

So we have to record the podcast at some point and publish it into your podcast feeds at

some point.

And so we have to make a judgement about, do we know enough to actually give you some

value on the story, or are we basically just wittering on about something?

Secondly, the other point is stories like what happened in Nottingham are sometimes a

bit tricky for us to do on newscast, because you know what, it's like we like to have a

chat with a couple of people talk about maybe some background, maybe a bit of gossip,

maybe a bit of detail, maybe work out some theories, maybe even disagree about things,

and it's quite hard to have a conversation like that about an unfolding event that could

have a criminal element to it.

And then thirdly, there's the COVID inquiry itself.

Now initially we were not going to do the whole episode about the COVID inquiry, but

as we saw the hearing unfold and as we were listening to what Hugh was saying and Emma

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