On Sep 20, 10:21*pm, Stephen Davenport
wrote:
'Weather front' has become ubiquitous across BBC presenters'
discourse. It must be policy and I cannot for the life of me fathom
why.

Stephen.

I would have thought it's perfectly obvious why. Weather is
to be presented in part at least as entertainment and as such must not
contain anything remotely resembling a technical phrase. The public
are being patronised as dimwits which, it has to be admitted, they
largely are in matters meteorological but this dismal state of affairs
can only be made worse by the populist style of presentation we now
see where the idea of education, be it ever so gentle, is deemed too
hot to handle, such is the Beeb's lack of testicular fortitude, as in
a number of other matters.
In reply to another poster (can't remember who, sorry), the
saving of one syllable in the definition of a front cannot be a
serious point (and of course wasn't meant to be), given such
periphrastic nonsense like "as we go through the course of the night-
time period", all the while "flirting with the eastern coastal
fringes." They babble, like nervous badly-briefed spokesmen as the
pressures of time and populism requirements get to them, and this is
Radio 4, not Thicko FM. The Beeb ought to be ashamed of itself.

Tudor Hughes, Warlingham, Surrey