BBC News staff hit back at Sun story about 'sleeping on the job'

The staff at BBC News HQ have criticised today’s front page story from The Sun that claims that BBC newsroom journalists are sleeping on the job.

The Sun story, under the headline ‘Here is the Snooze’, quotes an unnamed source that night-shift workers regularly dosed on the job and that in a 12-hour shift some do only “around an hour of work.”

https://twitter.com/AllieHBNews/status/930928335538081792

However, BBC journalists that are working or have worked in the night time newsroom said the claims were untrue.

https://twitter.com/RobLawrence/status/930941306322472961

https://twitter.com/BabitaBBC/status/931088470625411072

Others said select staff did sometimes nap, but that this was during their break time...

https://twitter.com/jamesglynn/status/930945653529772032

https://twitter.com/RM_Leeming/status/931102988927750144

https://twitter.com/callummay/status/930937360954679298

Others thought it was a parody story…

https://twitter.com/ruskin147/status/931035313258065920

https://twitter.com/ruskin147/status/931091286425264128

https://twitter.com/CharleneWhite/status/931080596838854661

https://twitter.com/Jgibbins/status/930947709900640257

https://twitter.com/stuartdhughes/status/930934812986179584

And some said The Sun was in no position to criticise…

https://twitter.com/sommervilletv/status/931076905209679872

https://twitter.com/merryarty/status/930946282746732545

And then there was this zinger from the BBC Press Office...