sense of excitement was shared by two viewers who contacted us this week, mark bradbury and deborah bardsleyou both for coming on. newswatch though, deborah, did all that coverage get you excited about eurovision? i'm sorry, but it didn't. there was so much all the time that i actually got fed up with seeing that yet again. there was another comment about eurovision when it hadn't happened. if i'd wanted to follow the actual programmes specifically aimed at it, they were available on bbc one. i could have chosen to go there, but it felt as though every news bulletin spent far too long concentrating on what was going to be happening. so, it wasn't even news. it was an event looming rather than real news when there's so many other things happening in the uk and around the world. what were some of the other stories that you thought perhaps might have got neglected as a result? well, it was the fact that anything that would seem to be important, you didn't get it in the headlines. you really have to keep going back. i know, i'm talking about a week ago now and things have moved on, but there's a

sense of excitement was shared by two viewers who contacted us this week, mark bradbury and deborah bardsley in ukraine with russia knowing that there was the attention on eurovision, but also, the floods and other natural disasters that people needed needed to get the message out and we weren't hearing it. mark, i suppose people might say it was a big event, and to host it in liverpool, you know, and it is linked in its own way to the war in ukraine. was there not a news value in having all that coverage? well, there was some sense of having a news value. and it clearly showcase an event of this nature in uk. and to support ukraine at the same time is probably a good thing. but i completely agree with deborah. i think that it was disproportionate to the amount of other international and national events which were going on and issues which we all face daily, and especially where breakfast news was concerned monday to friday, especially the lead—up to thursday and friday. i thought it was completely excessive and, to an extent, lazyjournalism. it's quite easyjust to give time to the events an