:00:06. > :00:15.You are watching BBC News. Time for news watch. This week, is BBC News
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:00:24. > :00:32.being too negative about the Welcome to the last Newswatch of
:00:32. > :00:36.the series, and the last before you knew what. We are already Sea Inc
:00:36. > :00:42.ticketing chaos, traffic gridlock, a security nightmare and it is
:00:42. > :00:47.still raining. Since the start of last week, the revelation that G4S
:00:47. > :00:57.was unable to recruit enough guards for the venues has been widely
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:01:31. > :01:36.aired. Too widely for Trevor On Monday, competitors starting
:01:36. > :01:46.arriving from all over the world but was there too much focus on the
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:01:58. > :02:00.difficulties so experienced by an More bad news the next day, or with
:02:00. > :02:10.the announcement that half-a- million football tickets had been
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:02:16. > :02:26.withdrawn because of poor sales. It Mark Butler summed up the mood of
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:02:44. > :02:53.To respond to those used, I am joined by senior editor on the BBC
:02:53. > :02:57.News Channel. Simon, a mind- boggling negativity? No. It is not
:02:57. > :03:01.our job to rubbish the Olympic Games, it is not our job to be a
:03:01. > :03:06.cheerleader for the Games, and we don't sit around and say to one
:03:06. > :03:12.another, let's really dig deep in the undergrowth and find something
:03:13. > :03:18.bad to say about the Games. These are actual events. They happened.
:03:18. > :03:23.It is arguably news. But have you got the tone and proportion wrong?
:03:23. > :03:28.Too much attention to the exclusion of things that are working well?
:03:28. > :03:33.is what you take away from the coverage. We have been covering the
:03:33. > :03:37.positive side. We have been talking about the preparations, the stadia
:03:38. > :03:42.and venues that are ready and on time and fabulous, the number of
:03:42. > :03:47.volunteers, we had been looking ahead to the British medal hopefuls,
:03:47. > :03:53.we have been examining why we are so good at sitting down sports,
:03:53. > :03:59.like sailing and cycling, and the torch relay has been something that
:03:59. > :04:06.I really think has captured the mood. But isn't there a sense that
:04:06. > :04:10.before events happen, you are looking for stories? In June we had
:04:10. > :04:15.a couple of fine Polish ladies complaining about exaggerated
:04:15. > :04:21.coverage of racism at in Poland and said there would not be any trouble
:04:21. > :04:26.in Euro 2012 and to a great extent there wasn't. In retrospect, the
:04:26. > :04:30.coverage looked exaggerated. Is there this danger? Before the event,
:04:30. > :04:37.or you will talk about the build up, or what goes well and what has not
:04:37. > :04:40.gone so well. If you have a multi- million pound contract to sort
:04:40. > :04:45.security for the Games and two weeks before, you cannot provide
:04:45. > :04:49.the staff that is promised, and that is big news. Isn't there
:04:49. > :04:54.inevitably going to be tension between you and your colleagues,
:04:54. > :05:00.who want to continue showing the Olympics in future? We are one of
:05:00. > :05:07.the major rights holders. We are the Olympic broadcaster. We have
:05:07. > :05:12.got a fantastic amount of coverage. We have invested a lot of kit, time,
:05:12. > :05:17.effort and people into this. The sport will be just fantastic, I am
:05:17. > :05:23.sure. The news will cover the sport and the issues and if there are no
:05:23. > :05:27.problems with security on day one, boy, we will report that. When all
:05:27. > :05:31.the athletes arrived earlier in the week, yes one of your viewers
:05:31. > :05:36.complained there was a bit about one of the coaches been lost, but
:05:36. > :05:42.we interviewed people who said it was smooth sailing, it was easy, it
:05:42. > :05:47.was a piece of cake. Our reporter used the phrase "security with a
:05:47. > :05:52.smile", and as a news editor I felt that was a balanced piece of
:05:52. > :05:56.journalism, and as a human being I thought, it is coming. I am quite
:05:56. > :06:01.excited. After a summer break, we will be
:06:01. > :06:06.back in September with a new look and from a new studio. We have been
:06:06. > :06:09.broadcasting from Television Centre for eight years, during which
:06:09. > :06:15.numerous US have had their say about BBC News in no uncertain
:06:15. > :06:20.terms -- and numerous of viewers. A good point to have a look back.
:06:20. > :06:25.am annoyed that many correspondents brim reports from locations that
:06:25. > :06:28.have no relevance to the stories. What is the point of our
:06:28. > :06:34.correspondent standing in front of a lifeless building in the middle
:06:34. > :06:39.of the night? Another issue for me is the weather effects of reports,
:06:39. > :06:43.especially if it is windy and draining. I recently saw a reporter
:06:43. > :06:49.standing outside New Scotland Yard. I don't remember what she was
:06:49. > :06:55.talking about because I was too interested in her umbrella. Whether
:06:55. > :06:59.it would carry her off altogether. In at 2004, a few objected strongly
:06:59. > :07:07.to the terminology used in reporting the fighting in post-war
:07:07. > :07:13.Iraq. The only person you refer to as armed forces are allies and the
:07:13. > :07:21.only people who are tourists are people who we are fighting against.
:07:21. > :07:28.-- terrorists. Once you hit 50, women are invisible, nobody sees
:07:28. > :07:31.you any more. That is something that has got to change. That really
:07:31. > :07:38.much of the business programme of working lunch prompted this
:07:38. > :07:43.exchange. I don't understand why the format was so changed. To see
:07:43. > :07:49.someone making a dress and as set of wings like Blue Peter was
:07:49. > :07:53.absolutely extraordinary and I thought it was awful. I will do
:07:53. > :07:59.everything and admit that for the first programme, the making of the
:07:59. > :08:04.close thing was an item that went wrong... This is revolutionary
:08:04. > :08:08.stuff. A senior executive admitting it was not perfect. This panel has
:08:09. > :08:13.been the subject... There was a storm over the appearance of Mick
:08:13. > :08:18.Griffin on the British National Party on Question Time. I am not
:08:18. > :08:27.opposed to any other party, the main parties, any of the fringe
:08:27. > :08:32.parties. Been on Question Time. But the BNP is fundamentally difference.
:08:32. > :08:41.His racism are acceptable if it has enough votes? -- is racism
:08:41. > :08:46.acceptable? And that viewers had a field day in the build-up to the
:08:46. > :08:56.royal wedding. He seems relaxed. Watch the body language and the
:08:56. > :09:00.
:09:00. > :09:04.Kate Middleton it will need to tread softly when making her
:09:04. > :09:11.designer choices. The British fashion industry have spread their
:09:11. > :09:15.dreams under her feet. Last year, the BBC News website picked up a
:09:15. > :09:19.story from the Israeli press that a stray dog had been condemned to
:09:19. > :09:25.death by a Jewish rabbinical court, a story that turned out to be
:09:25. > :09:29.inaccurate. It is very disappointed to think that the BBC has herd
:09:29. > :09:34.mentality where if they know somebody else has published
:09:34. > :09:37.something, they will publish it, and it is disappointing that when
:09:38. > :09:41.it is such an unusual story, you would not spend five minutes of
:09:41. > :09:47.fact-checking it because within five minutes, you would quickly
:09:47. > :09:52.find up this story was fabricated and unsubstantiated. It is an
:09:52. > :09:56.American pop star, not a latter-day Messiah. I thought we were going to
:09:57. > :10:01.have a Diana moment. You were making him out to be somebody
:10:01. > :10:07.absolutely and totally remarkable, as if it was a national event. It
:10:07. > :10:12.was not a national event. How will you cover a national event?
:10:12. > :10:17.moves of Breakfast is Salford came under attack. I think it was a bad
:10:18. > :10:23.mistake. London is a world centre, not just an English and UK Centre,
:10:23. > :10:28.and a programme like Breakfast should be located in London. Long
:10:28. > :10:33.term I think it will affect the quality of the programme.
:10:33. > :10:39.accusation that there is too much sport and especially football on
:10:39. > :10:44.the news has been poured over over the years. It is inescapable. It is
:10:44. > :10:49.on radio, television, everywhere you look. Do we have to have
:10:49. > :10:53.pundits discussing the flexibility and temperament of the ball?
:10:53. > :10:56.gather the England goalkeeper made a pig's ear of a Save earlier in
:10:56. > :11:06.the week and I am sure he doesn't want to be reminded of it any more
:11:06. > :11:10.Thanks to all of those who have contributed to the programme and we
:11:10. > :11:16.hope you will continue to do so, but after eight years, this is my
:11:16. > :11:18.last show. It has been a pleasure and a privilege to hear your views