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And later in the programme - a slice of chocolate cake goes down | :00:29. | :00:39. | |
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very nicely but should news the news? There was a lot of | :00:41. | :00:51. | |
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complaint about the coverage of Whitney Houston coverage. | :00:54. | :00:59. | |
The build-up to the funeral took almost an hour and it was clear the | :00:59. | :01:04. | |
servers would not be a brief one. Already the complaints were coming | :01:04. | :01:12. | |
in. Barry Smith wrote, I'm very sad but not something a news channel | :01:12. | :01:18. | |
should spend so much time on. A very poor decision on your editor's | :01:19. | :01:28. | |
part. As the hours went on, the BBC stayed with the funeral. One viewer | :01:28. | :01:34. | |
thought we were pandering to the popular glossy magazine culture. | :01:34. | :01:38. | |
You should have a redirected viewers who wanted to see this to a | :01:38. | :01:43. | |
live strain on your website and a debate into coverage every now and | :01:43. | :01:53. | |
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then. Just before the non-stop coverage hit the four-hour mark, | :01:54. | :01:59. | |
the channel decided enough was enough but that upset her a couple | :01:59. | :02:09. | |
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who e-mailed: It was unfailing, unthinking and disrespectful. | :02:12. | :02:17. | |
Especially to the minister. To answer those 0.5 and joined by the | :02:17. | :02:27. | |
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editor responsible. And another viewer who got in touch with us. | :02:29. | :02:36. | |
was as sad and as anyone to hear about Whitney Houston's death. She | :02:36. | :02:41. | |
was successful and a great artist bar when I switched the news | :02:41. | :02:46. | |
channel on on Saturday evening to watch the news, I was astounded. I | :02:46. | :02:51. | |
sat there for over an hour with the firm belief that any moment it | :02:51. | :02:57. | |
would cut away to the actual news. It did not happen. I would like to | :02:57. | :03:02. | |
ask why he thought it was necessary to continue with the coverage of | :03:02. | :03:08. | |
this funeral which was clearly not serious news? These are decisions | :03:08. | :03:14. | |
are quite difficult. The actual service was a significant news | :03:14. | :03:20. | |
event, a live news event. Once you are in it, te in it, tpart of the | :03:20. | :03:25. | |
audience that wants to stay with it. The decisions are quite complicated. | :03:25. | :03:35. | |
In terms of the coverage, the news and Channel had BBC One are running | :03:35. | :03:42. | |
a normal news range of stories. The wet side also had a range of | :03:42. | :03:47. | |
stories and they were radio bulletins. Unless there was a | :03:47. | :03:52. | |
significant big breaking news, you are committed to a live event. You | :03:52. | :03:57. | |
wanna completely in control of the duration. The moment you pull away | :03:57. | :04:02. | |
from it, there will be plenty of people in the audience offended by | :04:02. | :04:08. | |
that. People on the desks, they were watching it quite closely and | :04:08. | :04:14. | |
stuck with it for good editorial reasons. Imagine for the moment -- | :04:14. | :04:18. | |
imagine for the moment you were the editor, what kind of coverage | :04:18. | :04:27. | |
should you have offered? It should have been edited highlights. There | :04:27. | :04:34. | |
were plenty of channelof channel websites which could have been used | :04:34. | :04:40. | |
to string it life. I do not think it was worthy of BBC international | :04:40. | :04:46. | |
news channel. Four hours non-stop, that is | :04:46. | :04:52. | |
bordering on the ridiculous? four hours was not something we | :04:52. | :04:58. | |
envisaged. But he knew it had to be a live event. We were there to | :04:58. | :05:01. | |
cover live in years. A live news event. There were other stories | :05:01. | :05:06. | |
going on but there was nothing competing. If you look get the | :05:06. | :05:10. | |
coverage across all of the channels, you will find that all the channels | :05:10. | :05:20. | |
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decision. We do not get everything the point you're making. There are | :05:21. | :05:25. | |
people like Gareth who are frustrated. But on the night itself, | :05:25. | :05:30. | |
about one million people were watching between 5 and 630. Those | :05:30. | :05:33. | |
people thought it was the right decisions are we have to balance | :05:33. | :05:41. | |
the app. What about the view that the BBC is too obsessed with | :05:41. | :05:46. | |
celebrities, particularly US celebrities. That they should cover | :05:46. | :05:53. | |
more stories from a Europe of rather than America? With respect, | :05:53. | :05:58. | |
that is the point and have a bit of a dispute with. If you look at the | :05:58. | :06:03. | |
coverage on the news channel, you will find we are not obsessed by | :06:03. | :06:08. | |
celebrities or entertainment. The agenda is incredibly wide. We had | :06:08. | :06:14. | |
done a lot out of Syria. In terms of the BBC just, I would recommend | :06:14. | :06:21. | |
that people look at the BBC Trust website. There was a report in | :06:21. | :06:25. | |
terms of news channel and what we're doing and what audiences | :06:25. | :06:32. | |
thing. You will find that our agenda there could be a pretty | :06:32. | :06:42. | |
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the viewer, do you think the BBC is to celebrity obsessed? Yes. It is | :06:44. | :06:49. | |
the same when the award season comes around. The BBC seems | :06:50. | :06:54. | |
obsessed about telling us all about the parties. The oldest argument, | :06:54. | :07:00. | |
it is not really news. The time is really pressures and there are a | :07:00. | :07:05. | |
lot of stories going on. People are affected by certain events would be | :07:05. | :07:10. | |
delighted to see a couple of minutes's coverage for their | :07:10. | :07:15. | |
courses. Things that never get talked about at will. It is a place | :07:15. | :07:23. | |
for news about celebrities but it is not on the news channel. Thank | :07:23. | :07:30. | |
you both for coming into the studio. Over the course of the week, Syria | :07:30. | :07:37. | |
featured prominently particularly which the death of the Sunday Times | :07:37. | :07:43. | |
journalist married Col von. She had spoken earlier tours. Just today, | :07:43. | :07:51. | |
shelling started. I counted 14 shells in the civilian area. Within | :07:51. | :07:57. | |
30 seconds. There was at a clinic, if you could call it a clinic - it | :07:57. | :08:01. | |
is an apartment, I watched a little baby died today. Absolutely | :08:01. | :08:09. | |
horrific. The pictures that followed, though partly pixelated, | :08:09. | :08:15. | |
upset several viewers. Have you wrote: I was sickened to watch a | :08:15. | :08:23. | |
fatally injured child in its fatal moments. Surely the description | :08:23. | :08:27. | |
given was realistic enough. This apparently voyeuristic scene should | :08:27. | :08:35. | |
have been a private moment. Also causing concern was a newspaper | :08:35. | :08:44. | |
review on the last Sunday's broke first. Losing weight. An | :08:44. | :08:52. | |
astonishing story. She has lost eight stones in a year on a lighter | :08:52. | :09:02. | |
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life died. She just has great Umar. -- light and life diet. Credit with | :09:06. | :09:16. | |
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helping the woman with losing We asked breakfast for a response | :09:36. | :09:46. | |
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We featured last week the on screen star of two presenters. On Tuesday, | :10:16. | :10:26. | |
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viewers were divided. Tracey, I am going to bring the floor manager on. | :10:38. | :10:48. | |
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My favourite chocolate. They chocolate cake. Send you so much. | :10:51. | :10:59. | |
- thank you so much. It looks tasty but on a series of news and | :10:59. | :11:09. | |
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