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Welcome to the programme. The term rubbernecking was coined to | :00:26. | :00:29. | |
describe the habit of driver slowing down to stare at the | :00:29. | :00:33. | |
aftermath of an accident. But is there such a thing as televisual | :00:33. | :00:42. | |
rubbernecking? Here is just one of many reports of the crash on the M5. | :00:42. | :00:49. | |
Disbelief from motorists as they drove past the pile up. More than | :00:49. | :00:55. | |
30 cars, vans and articulated lorries mangled and compacted, some | :00:55. | :01:01. | |
of them exploding on impact. Unbelievable. And unbelievable was | :01:01. | :01:05. | |
what some news which viewers thought of the BBC's use of mobile | :01:05. | :01:15. | |
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Meanwhile, I woman objected to some more footage shown on the BBC | :01:27. | :01:37. | |
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Another concern about the coverage of the crash centred around | :01:53. | :01:57. | |
reporting such as this. motorway may now have been cleared | :01:57. | :02:02. | |
of debris, but away from public view, this investigation is very | :02:02. | :02:10. | |
much active. Its primary for -- focus is a local firework show and | :02:10. | :02:13. | |
its role it may have played. This amateur video shows the scale of | :02:13. | :02:18. | |
the event. The response of a woman, speculation of the cause of the | :02:18. | :02:28. | |
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I had been putting those points to a reporter from the BBC News | :02:35. | :02:39. | |
Channel. I asked if he thought the BBC News channel got the tone of | :02:39. | :02:43. | |
the response to the crash right? Overall, I think we did. It was a | :02:43. | :02:49. | |
horrific crash. Really upsetting for people involved, for people who | :02:49. | :02:53. | |
knew people who were involved. One of the worst motorway crashes we | :02:54. | :03:02. | |
have had for many years. I think that because we are a news channel, | :03:02. | :03:06. | |
the audience, to an extent, can expect to see some quite strong | :03:06. | :03:14. | |
images. If they are out of the way, potentially distressing, then we | :03:14. | :03:18. | |
will warn people before we shall it. Some viewers certainly think you | :03:18. | :03:25. | |
should more than they wanted to see. We come up to this dilemma every | :03:25. | :03:30. | |
day in the news business. We are in a completely different era to say | :03:30. | :03:35. | |
even ten years ago. Everybody has a mobile phone. Everybody has access | :03:35. | :03:39. | |
to the internet. There is a lot more material out there and | :03:39. | :03:46. | |
available to us and soon anybody who wants to go and find it. I am | :03:46. | :03:52. | |
aware of the accusation of rubbernecking. I hope it does that | :03:52. | :03:57. | |
sound crass, but our job is to rubber neck on behalf of the public. | :03:57. | :04:02. | |
-- does not. It is our job to report on behalf of the UK and the | :04:02. | :04:06. | |
world. It was a major incident and we needed to tell it as best we | :04:06. | :04:14. | |
could. When you're actually accuses the BBC of showing, in effect, a | :04:14. | :04:21. | |
snuff movie. That is possibly the most difficult decision that we | :04:21. | :04:29. | |
have to take. As you well know, we have a general policy in BBC News | :04:29. | :04:35. | |
not to show the moment of death of any individual. The pictures that | :04:35. | :04:41. | |
we showed of the fireball were from the other side of the motorway. I | :04:41. | :04:45. | |
think they were not specific enough for anyone to be able to say that | :04:45. | :04:51. | |
is the moment that a person died. We just do not know. Some viewers | :04:51. | :04:55. | |
think the BBC does too much speculation before the full facts | :04:55. | :05:01. | |
are known. I think, not just as a journalist, but as a human being, | :05:01. | :05:05. | |
having heard about this awful crash in once you have had the initial | :05:06. | :05:15. | |
reaction of your hard going out to the people involved, surely, as you | :05:15. | :05:19. | |
need being -- as a human being, your first reaction would be how on | :05:19. | :05:25. | |
earth could this happen? I think we're responsible in the way we | :05:25. | :05:29. | |
tried to get to the causes. The police were talking quite soon of | :05:29. | :05:35. | |
the wet road and fog, possibly smoke from the fireworks display. | :05:35. | :05:45. | |
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That was what people wanted to know Now for some of your thoughts on | :05:47. | :05:52. | |
the week's output. Tuesday night's late news had a breaking story to | :05:52. | :05:58. | |
deal with. Michael Jackson's doctor is found guilty of manslaughter it. | :05:58. | :06:06. | |
Dr Murray is convicted after a six- Outside the court, fans welcomed | :06:06. | :06:13. | |
the verdict they had been demanding for two years. A woman in now us to | :06:13. | :06:23. | |
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Well, we were given a statement in response to those complaints. | :06:48. | :06:52. | |
Michael Jackson was a major figure in popular culture. The conclusion | :06:52. | :06:57. | |
of the trial was a newsworthy moment it. We reflected this in a | :06:57. | :07:02. | |
measured way, with a report from the court shortly after the verdict | :07:02. | :07:06. | |
was announced. This was one of a number of stories covered on the | :07:06. | :07:16. | |
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day. Namer, a main contractor of us On Thursday, David Cameron were | :07:52. | :07:56. | |
shown on the news channel making a speech about the economy in London. | :07:56. | :08:00. | |
Let me say this, we are not going to do that with a permanent state | :08:00. | :08:05. | |
of warfare between the banks and the politicians. So we sat down | :08:05. | :08:10. | |
with the bankers and said, if you land war to small and medium-sized | :08:10. | :08:14. | |
businesses... We will meet the Prime Minister there now. But right | :08:14. | :08:24. | |
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now, time for the weather. Now, audiences for news bulletins | :08:32. | :08:37. | |
at the BBC and elsewhere tend to be older than the average for general | :08:37. | :08:40. | |
television viewing. Does that suggest that young viewers simply | :08:40. | :08:50. | |
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are not interested in news? Or does it suggest that the BBC is not | :08:53. | :08:56. | |
catering to them? One of them who thinks the latter is the case is | :08:56. | :09:03. | |
this woman. Here are her views. am 17, but when I was younger, he | :09:03. | :09:10. | |
watched things like news around. I was able to understand what was | :09:10. | :09:14. | |
going on in the world. I think when I watch the news now, although I | :09:14. | :09:20. | |
get most of it, there are things that I still do not get. If I want | :09:20. | :09:24. | |
to find out things, I think it is important that the news is this | :09:24. | :09:28. | |
kind of information. So I think the news is more for the older people. | :09:28. | :09:35. | |
I do not think there is anything targeted above the age of younger | :09:35. | :09:42. | |
children. It assumes that you watch it every day. I wish I could watch | :09:42. | :09:47. | |
it every day, but I think if you do not, you do not know the whole | :09:47. | :09:57. | |
story in the good bits of pieces of it. -- and you get. I was watching | :09:57. | :10:00. | |
St Mawes processed and I did not understand why they are protesting | :10:00. | :10:06. | |
outside it. -- St Paul's. Many think that there are the young | :10:06. | :10:10. | |
people out there who do not understand about the Stock Exchange, | :10:10. | :10:15. | |
or politics. I think it is definitely true of economic stories. | :10:15. | :10:19. | |
Unless you have had the teaching in economics, you would not | :10:19. | :10:29. | |
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necessarily understand it. You need it explain the year. Unless you're | :10:32. | :10:35. | |
following a story for the whole time, you would not necessarily | :10:35. | :10:38. | |
understand what is happening. That is the sort of thing I would like | :10:38. | :10:46. | |
Finally, some BBC broadcasters will be making fools of themselves in | :10:46. | :10:53. | |
aid of children in Need. This year, strip become chanting -- strip | :10:53. | :11:03. | |
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The BBC monitors the news channel 41-day and donate �10 for every arm | :11:07. | :11:16. |