BBC News Workers Seen Playing with Umbrellas and Picking Their Noses Behind A Presenter During Broadcast

This is how Daily Mail is reporting it:

BBC staff haven't quite got used to how much viewers can see what's going on in the newsroom through the glass wall at the back of their new 24-hour news studio, it seems.

Complaints have been rolling in about the journalists seen in the background of news broadcasts chomping bananas, chatting, yawning, stretching, picking their noses and even flirting and playfighting in their new open-plan office at London's Broadcasting House.

Comments on social media websites have picked up on the antics of staff in the Corporation's multi-million pound 'fish bowl' newsroom since it moved from its previous home in Television Centre in March.

One licence fee-payer Mike Jennings expressed despair on Twitter when he spotted employees mucking about as a serious news story was being broadcast.

He tweeted: 'Man talking gravely about floods on BBC News, Adults in background pretending their umbrellas are lightsabers.'

Another viewer, Mark Hutchings, was distracted by a public display of affection between staff while an interview was taking place in the foreground.

He tweeted: 'Surgeon on BBC News Channel from Southampton newsroom. In the background two journalists are hugging. I know it’s Friday but...'

A fellow viewer added: 'Wow BBC News your new newsroom background to the newsreader is WAY too visually distracting! We don’t need to see all your employees at once.'

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Here's a tweet from one of their viewers! 

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