Dear BBC News reporter person

[innocent_lex]

It's neither big nor clever to report on the news in the present tense when the story is a year old. When you say things like "she goes home" and "he follows her", it makes you sound like an idiot. And randomly changing from present to past and back again mid-report? Makes you look like an even bigger idiot.

Just report the news. It's stuff that's happened. It's past. Please tell me you get that.

No love,

Me