What a better way to use that long journey time in the snow

This reporter certainly felt so as he shoots a video treking through the snow on the way to work around Cinderford

Leave the snow scenes to You Tube and Flickr

I don't know about you but the endless coverage of pictures of snow scenes from around the country has started to wear a little thin.

Charlie Beckett makes a very good point on his blog about the endless coverage on the BBC.

But is this what the BBC is for? Couldn’t Flickr and YouTube have done that job?

Couldn't agree more Charlie who continues

The material was not used to reveal hidden facts, it did not chart a particular narrative untold my mainstream media, nor did it map a story. It was simply there to illustrate individual people’s snapshots of a huge weather event.