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Welcome to the programme. The term rubbernecking was coined to

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describe the habit of driver slowing down to stare at the

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aftermath of an accident. But is there such a thing as televisual

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rubbernecking? Here is just one of many reports of the crash on the M5.

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Disbelief from motorists as they drove past the pile up. More than

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30 cars, vans and articulated lorries mangled and compacted, some

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of them exploding on impact. Unbelievable. And unbelievable was

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what some news which viewers thought of the BBC's use of mobile

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Meanwhile, I woman objected to some more footage shown on the BBC

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Another concern about the coverage of the crash centred around

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reporting such as this. motorway may now have been cleared

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of debris, but away from public view, this investigation is very

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much active. Its primary for -- focus is a local firework show and

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its role it may have played. This amateur video shows the scale of

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the event. The response of a woman, speculation of the cause of the

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I had been putting those points to a reporter from the BBC News

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Channel. I asked if he thought the BBC News channel got the tone of

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the response to the crash right? Overall, I think we did. It was a

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horrific crash. Really upsetting for people involved, for people who

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knew people who were involved. One of the worst motorway crashes we

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have had for many years. I think that because we are a news channel,

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the audience, to an extent, can expect to see some quite strong

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images. If they are out of the way, potentially distressing, then we

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will warn people before we shall it. Some viewers certainly think you

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should more than they wanted to see. We come up to this dilemma every

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day in the news business. We are in a completely different era to say

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even ten years ago. Everybody has a mobile phone. Everybody has access

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to the internet. There is a lot more material out there and

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available to us and soon anybody who wants to go and find it. I am

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aware of the accusation of rubbernecking. I hope it does that

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sound crass, but our job is to rubber neck on behalf of the public.

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-- does not. It is our job to report on behalf of the UK and the

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world. It was a major incident and we needed to tell it as best we

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could. When you're actually accuses the BBC of showing, in effect, a

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snuff movie. That is possibly the most difficult decision that we

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have to take. As you well know, we have a general policy in BBC News

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not to show the moment of death of any individual. The pictures that

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we showed of the fireball were from the other side of the motorway. I

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think they were not specific enough for anyone to be able to say that

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is the moment that a person died. We just do not know. Some viewers

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think the BBC does too much speculation before the full facts

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are known. I think, not just as a journalist, but as a human being,

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having heard about this awful crash in once you have had the initial

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reaction of your hard going out to the people involved, surely, as you

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need being -- as a human being, your first reaction would be how on

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earth could this happen? I think we're responsible in the way we

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tried to get to the causes. The police were talking quite soon of

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the wet road and fog, possibly smoke from the fireworks display.

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That was what people wanted to know Now for some of your thoughts on

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the week's output. Tuesday night's late news had a breaking story to

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deal with. Michael Jackson's doctor is found guilty of manslaughter it.

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Dr Murray is convicted after a six- Outside the court, fans welcomed

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the verdict they had been demanding for two years. A woman in now us to

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Well, we were given a statement in response to those complaints.

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Michael Jackson was a major figure in popular culture. The conclusion

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of the trial was a newsworthy moment it. We reflected this in a

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measured way, with a report from the court shortly after the verdict

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was announced. This was one of a number of stories covered on the

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day. Namer, a main contractor of us On Thursday, David Cameron were

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shown on the news channel making a speech about the economy in London.

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Let me say this, we are not going to do that with a permanent state

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of warfare between the banks and the politicians. So we sat down

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with the bankers and said, if you land war to small and medium-sized

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businesses... We will meet the Prime Minister there now. But right

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now, time for the weather. Now, audiences for news bulletins

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at the BBC and elsewhere tend to be older than the average for general

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television viewing. Does that suggest that young viewers simply

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are not interested in news? Or does it suggest that the BBC is not

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catering to them? One of them who thinks the latter is the case is

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this woman. Here are her views. am 17, but when I was younger, he

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watched things like news around. I was able to understand what was

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going on in the world. I think when I watch the news now, although I

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get most of it, there are things that I still do not get. If I want

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to find out things, I think it is important that the news is this

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kind of information. So I think the news is more for the older people.

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I do not think there is anything targeted above the age of younger

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children. It assumes that you watch it every day. I wish I could watch

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it every day, but I think if you do not, you do not know the whole

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story in the good bits of pieces of it. -- and you get. I was watching

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St Mawes processed and I did not understand why they are protesting

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outside it. -- St Paul's. Many think that there are the young

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people out there who do not understand about the Stock Exchange,

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or politics. I think it is definitely true of economic stories.

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Unless you have had the teaching in economics, you would not

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necessarily understand it. You need it explain the year. Unless you're

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following a story for the whole time, you would not necessarily

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understand what is happening. That is the sort of thing I would like

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Finally, some BBC broadcasters will be making fools of themselves in

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aid of children in Need. This year, strip become chanting -- strip

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The BBC monitors the news channel 41-day and donate �10 for every arm

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