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Royal Bank of Scotland, all down. Now it is in for news what with the | :00:03. | :00:05. | |
Raymond Snoddy, and this week coverage of the Olympics build up | :00:05. | :00:15. | |
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Welcome. On this week's programme... So many people have turned out here | :00:23. | :00:27. | |
at Land's End. Many people really proud that Cornwall should be the | :00:27. | :00:34. | |
place the talk starts. And they have loved it here, haven't you? | :00:34. | :00:39. | |
Not everyone loves watching the progress of the Olympic torch | :00:39. | :00:44. | |
around the UK. In a moment, we will be debating with the BBC News is or | :00:45. | :00:50. | |
should be a cheerleader for London 2012. First, a look back at the | :00:50. | :00:54. | |
arrival of some precious cargo. Safely delivered from Greece to | :00:54. | :00:59. | |
Cornwall, the flame at the cauldron last Friday with the assistance of | :00:59. | :01:03. | |
David Beckham. The following morning, the moment many but not | :01:03. | :01:09. | |
everyone had been waiting for. health the flame. The start of the | :01:09. | :01:17. | |
70 day journey dominated that day's breakfast, eliciting this response. | :01:17. | :01:27. | |
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That, though, was the minority. Everything fell by the wayside in | :02:01. | :02:07. | |
favour of this torch relay on Saturday morning. Mike Hughes e- | :02:08. | :02:17. | |
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Linda Hughes was equally Despite those views, it is safe to | :02:41. | :02:46. | |
assume the BBC has plenty more of that torch. We will hear plenty | :02:46. | :02:50. | |
more about that taught and the ceremony before the opening of the | :02:50. | :02:55. | |
Olympics. How much should any sporting event to displace the | :02:55. | :02:58. | |
normal news agenda? And his BBC News effectively acting as a | :02:58. | :03:02. | |
propaganda machine for the Olympics? To give me their views on | :03:02. | :03:12. | |
that, I am joined by head of the BBC newsroom and by two viewers. | :03:12. | :03:18. | |
First novel, Andy, what do you make of the Olympic coverage? -- first | :03:18. | :03:24. | |
of all. I would like a more balanced view, and in not accepting | :03:24. | :03:32. | |
view of everything the committee is and Seb Coe says as fact. I would | :03:32. | :03:36. | |
also like to know from Mary that can she guarantee that at some | :03:36. | :03:40. | |
point in the month during the Olympics and Paralympics, I would | :03:40. | :03:44. | |
like some haven of sanity where those millions of us that do not | :03:44. | :03:49. | |
like sport, who do not appreciate the Olympics coming to our cities | :03:49. | :03:53. | |
to retire to and actually have some sanity in the world? I am worried | :03:53. | :04:00. | |
and concerned and have been since January since we got the propaganda | :04:00. | :04:06. | |
rammed down our throats that there is going to be no haven for us, for | :04:07. | :04:14. | |
millions of us, who despise and absolutely do step -- that has the | :04:14. | :04:19. | |
obscene amount of money spent on it. I would like to go to Andrew. I | :04:19. | :04:23. | |
understand you are not so anti- Olympics per say, what is your | :04:23. | :04:30. | |
concern about BBC coverage? It is the balance between the Olympic | :04:30. | :04:35. | |
coverage, or the imbalance between the Olympic coverage and the news, | :04:35. | :04:40. | |
like on Saturday morning. They covered the breakfast programme | :04:40. | :04:43. | |
with the Olympic torch and very little else apart from some brief | :04:43. | :04:48. | |
mention of the military parade in winds. I got so fed up watching | :04:48. | :04:54. | |
that not knowing what was going on in the world, I swapped over to Sky | :04:54. | :04:57. | |
News and it was almost the BBC is the broadcast of the Olympics so | :04:57. | :05:05. | |
they see it as their job to promote it, which it clearly isn't. Plenty | :05:05. | :05:10. | |
there for Mary. Propaganda, too much, neglecting proper news | :05:10. | :05:13. | |
stories... The decision for breakfast on Saturday morning was | :05:13. | :05:18. | |
to recognise that in terms of live events, the torch and the beginning | :05:18. | :05:22. | |
of its journey was the live event of the morning with amazing | :05:22. | :05:27. | |
pictures and, crucially, an amazing turnout by the public. One of the | :05:27. | :05:32. | |
things I would like to focus on his you may be worried what we are | :05:32. | :05:37. | |
somehow promoting something because of the Olympics Committee or | :05:37. | :05:44. | |
whatever. We are responding to what has emerged as a big news event | :05:44. | :05:49. | |
with a really big participation by the British public. What about you | :05:49. | :05:53. | |
are providing propaganda and the BBC is setting about its proper | :05:53. | :05:59. | |
sense of scepticism? Whether you like it or not, and I accept you do | :05:59. | :06:05. | |
not like it, this is a big news event happening in Britain this | :06:05. | :06:10. | |
summer. You raise an important point about the range of coverage | :06:10. | :06:13. | |
and voices and the proper scepticism. We have done a lot of | :06:13. | :06:19. | |
reporting both on the Channel and on the bulletins around issues like | :06:19. | :06:23. | |
the cost and ticketing process. We have had an issue about the | :06:23. | :06:29. | |
Ukrainian Olympics official about ticket touting. We have looked up | :06:29. | :06:33. | |
security, transport, the possible destruction. We will continue to | :06:33. | :06:38. | |
air and look at those aspects. Let's get some reaction. Has Mary | :06:38. | :06:46. | |
convinced you? After -- I suppose, but you should stick to news. The | :06:46. | :06:51. | |
people want to watch sport, they can go and what other sports | :06:51. | :06:55. | |
channels available. For us to do not like the Olympics or any form | :06:55. | :07:00. | |
of sport, please keep the news to the news and keep sport to its | :07:00. | :07:05. | |
sections within the new spot. Andrew Taylor, what do you make of | :07:05. | :07:10. | |
Mary's answer? Why asked it was important to show the departure of | :07:10. | :07:15. | |
the torch from Land's End, that was probably enough. We didn't need a | :07:15. | :07:19. | |
present on the ground for an hour more talking about something that | :07:20. | :07:29. | |
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had happened already. You could level the same argument at the | :07:32. | :07:35. | |
presenter at the airport the night before waiting for the plane to | :07:35. | :07:40. | |
touch down. But it is important, it is a national event. But that | :07:40. | :07:45. | |
national event comes to four at the opening ceremony. I would like to | :07:45. | :07:49. | |
move on to the news coverage around the time of the Olympics itself. | :07:49. | :07:55. | |
Can you assure viewers there will be half an hour of News at One | :07:55. | :07:59. | |
o'clock, 6 o'clock and 10 o'clock, and that programmes like Newsnight | :07:59. | :08:03. | |
will not disappear? I can absolutely assure you that news | :08:03. | :08:09. | |
will be a big part of the BBC's offer through the Olympics. BBC One | :08:09. | :08:14. | |
becomes, essentially, an Olympics and news channel, and most days the | :08:15. | :08:18. | |
news will be at the times you normally get it. There will be some | :08:18. | :08:22. | |
days it will be at different times because of a particular sporting | :08:22. | :08:27. | |
event, but everyone will know when the news will be. To your point | :08:27. | :08:33. | |
about a haven, I can reassure you up to a point, I think. I'm afraid | :08:33. | :08:37. | |
I am not able to tell you the news will be an Olympics reserve and, | :08:37. | :08:42. | |
because that would not be the right thing to do for a news point of | :08:42. | :08:46. | |
view. If you want an utter haven, you will not have to read a paper, | :08:46. | :08:51. | |
not put the radio on and not look at the television. I can assure you, | :08:51. | :08:56. | |
you will get a good dose of other news as well as Olympics news, and | :08:56. | :09:04. | |
they will be plenty of scope for mum Olympics programming -- thorn | :09:04. | :09:13. | |
on Olympics programming. Thank you took all of you. | :09:13. | :09:17. | |
-- thank you to all of you. Let's have some of the other issues. | :09:17. | :09:21. | |
The priority given to the deaths of pop stars and others and the | :09:21. | :09:25. | |
entertainment business is often controversial and so with the news | :09:25. | :09:29. | |
that Robin Gibb of the Bee Gees had died. These were the thoughts of | :09:29. | :09:34. | |
Patricia Latham. Absolutely appalled this morning. | :09:34. | :09:40. | |
In view of everything that is going on this morning. Somebody, a Bee | :09:40. | :09:47. | |
Gees had died at 61. A pop star. Most of us are appalled. This is | :09:47. | :09:52. | |
the main news the BBC is showing? . The reporting it be on the | :09:52. | :09:59. | |
ongoing saga of the eurozone's woes. The tone of that coverage has been | :09:59. | :10:09. | |
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Apology for the loss of subtitles for 66 seconds | :10:09. | :11:15. | |
A trend that has been annoying a Well, rather than saying have a | :11:15. | :11:19. |