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24/02/2012

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And later in the programme - a slice of chocolate cake goes down

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very nicely but should news the news? There was a lot of

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complaint about the coverage of Whitney Houston coverage.

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The build-up to the funeral took almost an hour and it was clear the

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servers would not be a brief one. Already the complaints were coming

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in. Barry Smith wrote, I'm very sad but not something a news channel

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should spend so much time on. A very poor decision on your editor's

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part. As the hours went on, the BBC stayed with the funeral. One viewer

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thought we were pandering to the popular glossy magazine culture.

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You should have a redirected viewers who wanted to see this to a

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live strain on your website and a debate into coverage every now and

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then. Just before the non-stop coverage hit the four-hour mark,

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the channel decided enough was enough but that upset her a couple

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who e-mailed: It was unfailing, unthinking and disrespectful.

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Especially to the minister. To answer those 0.5 and joined by the

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editor responsible. And another viewer who got in touch with us.

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was as sad and as anyone to hear about Whitney Houston's death. She

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was successful and a great artist bar when I switched the news

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channel on on Saturday evening to watch the news, I was astounded. I

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sat there for over an hour with the firm belief that any moment it

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would cut away to the actual news. It did not happen. I would like to

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ask why he thought it was necessary to continue with the coverage of

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this funeral which was clearly not serious news? These are decisions

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are quite difficult. The actual service was a significant news

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event, a live news event. Once you are in it, te in it, tpart of the

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audience that wants to stay with it. The decisions are quite complicated.

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In terms of the coverage, the news and Channel had BBC One are running

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a normal news range of stories. The wet side also had a range of

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stories and they were radio bulletins. Unless there was a

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significant big breaking news, you are committed to a live event. You

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wanna completely in control of the duration. The moment you pull away

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from it, there will be plenty of people in the audience offended by

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that. People on the desks, they were watching it quite closely and

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stuck with it for good editorial reasons. Imagine for the moment --

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imagine for the moment you were the editor, what kind of coverage

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should you have offered? It should have been edited highlights. There

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were plenty of channelof channel websites which could have been used

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to string it life. I do not think it was worthy of BBC international

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news channel. Four hours non-stop, that is

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bordering on the ridiculous? four hours was not something we

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envisaged. But he knew it had to be a live event. We were there to

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cover live in years. A live news event. There were other stories

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going on but there was nothing competing. If you look get the

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coverage across all of the channels, you will find that all the channels

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decision. We do not get everything the point you're making. There are

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people like Gareth who are frustrated. But on the night itself,

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about one million people were watching between 5 and 630. Those

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people thought it was the right decisions are we have to balance

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the app. What about the view that the BBC is too obsessed with

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celebrities, particularly US celebrities. That they should cover

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more stories from a Europe of rather than America? With respect,

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that is the point and have a bit of a dispute with. If you look at the

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coverage on the news channel, you will find we are not obsessed by

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celebrities or entertainment. The agenda is incredibly wide. We had

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done a lot out of Syria. In terms of the BBC just, I would recommend

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that people look at the BBC Trust website. There was a report in

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terms of news channel and what we're doing and what audiences

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thing. You will find that our agenda there could be a pretty

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the viewer, do you think the BBC is to celebrity obsessed? Yes. It is

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the same when the award season comes around. The BBC seems

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obsessed about telling us all about the parties. The oldest argument,

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it is not really news. The time is really pressures and there are a

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lot of stories going on. People are affected by certain events would be

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delighted to see a couple of minutes's coverage for their

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courses. Things that never get talked about at will. It is a place

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for news about celebrities but it is not on the news channel. Thank

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you both for coming into the studio. Over the course of the week, Syria

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featured prominently particularly which the death of the Sunday Times

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journalist married Col von. She had spoken earlier tours. Just today,

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shelling started. I counted 14 shells in the civilian area. Within

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30 seconds. There was at a clinic, if you could call it a clinic - it

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is an apartment, I watched a little baby died today. Absolutely

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horrific. The pictures that followed, though partly pixelated,

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upset several viewers. Have you wrote: I was sickened to watch a

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fatally injured child in its fatal moments. Surely the description

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given was realistic enough. This apparently voyeuristic scene should

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have been a private moment. Also causing concern was a newspaper

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review on the last Sunday's broke first. Losing weight. An

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astonishing story. She has lost eight stones in a year on a lighter

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life died. She just has great Umar. -- light and life diet. Credit with

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helping the woman with losing We asked breakfast for a response

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We featured last week the on screen star of two presenters. On Tuesday,

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viewers were divided. Tracey, I am going to bring the floor manager on.

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My favourite chocolate. They chocolate cake. Send you so much.

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- thank you so much. It looks tasty but on a series of news and

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