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open enough about what was known inside the corporation? | :00:02. | :00:06. | |
There is a fly in my studio. A BBC Scotland news bulletin is disrupted | :00:06. | :00:12. | |
by intact. Because of budget cuts, the past | :00:12. | :00:15. | |
three weeks of party conferences have not been broadcast as | :00:16. | :00:20. | |
extensively as in previous years. But what you member of what has | :00:20. | :00:25. | |
been shown? Chances are it is not policy announcements and debates, | :00:25. | :00:27. | |
but how error that give representatives performed, | :00:27. | :00:34. | |
especially the party leaders. They were cheered still further by | :00:34. | :00:37. | |
another rousing performance from the London mayor, who has been | :00:37. | :00:41. | |
stealing the limelight here. He brushed aside yet more questions | :00:41. | :00:44. | |
about his own leadership ambitions and lavished praise on his old | :00:44. | :00:51. | |
friends at, the Prime Minister. was pleased to seek you Corby a | :00:51. | :00:56. | |
blond-haired pop in the pages of the papers. -- called me. | :00:56. | :00:59. | |
Here are the conference there is something approaching a personality | :00:59. | :01:07. | |
cult. Some are already fed to it -- fantasising about what portfolio he | :01:07. | :01:10. | |
would choose. If he is a personality cult, is | :01:10. | :01:15. | |
that the doing of the media? Some news which viewers to detect an | :01:15. | :01:22. | |
emphasis on people not policies. One duet decried the tendency to | :01:22. | :01:32. | |
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create a hype and entertainment. Well, one person who has been | :01:36. | :01:39. | |
living and breathing the party conferences for the past three | :01:39. | :01:42. | |
weeks is the chief political conference -- correspondent for BBC | :01:42. | :01:52. | |
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News, Norman's -- Norman Smith. TUC why viewers can get concerned? | :01:54. | :02:02. | |
is very hard to disentangle personalities from policies and | :02:02. | :02:06. | |
will politics because personalities help to shape politics. It has | :02:06. | :02:11. | |
always been that way. If you look two previous conferences through | :02:11. | :02:16. | |
history, big figures have dominated them. It is absolutely impossible | :02:16. | :02:21. | |
to strip out personalities from politics. One thing I would say | :02:21. | :02:28. | |
with regard to Boris Johnson is I think there is a danger in the | :02:28. | :02:35. | |
regard of taking him on in his own field. Rather than challenging him | :02:35. | :02:41. | |
as robustly as we do other politicians. When it comes down to | :02:41. | :02:47. | |
detail, in specific policies, Boris Johnson tends to be a much less | :02:47. | :02:50. | |
sure-footed politician. I think there is nothing wrong in | :02:50. | :02:54. | |
emphasising his personal attractiveness to the electorate. | :02:54. | :02:58. | |
What I would suggest is we need to engage more robustly with the sort | :02:58. | :03:03. | |
of policies he espouses. You say people have always been interested | :03:03. | :03:12. | |
in personality, which is true, but there's a sense of the people | :03:12. | :03:18. | |
watching that it is almost like gossip. Dear not accept that there | :03:18. | :03:23. | |
is something about the time that is fed too much interest in that sort | :03:23. | :03:29. | |
of soap opera and not enough interest in what actually happened? | :03:29. | :03:35. | |
-- do you not. I will tell you what happened, very little. That is part | :03:35. | :03:39. | |
of the reason why perhaps there is destroying back into poll of -- | :03:39. | :03:47. | |
personalities. That is an excuse, isn't it? That is possible, but I | :03:47. | :03:51. | |
tell you the difficulty is there is a lack of policy being given to | :03:51. | :03:59. | |
journalists to report on. If you take, for example, the last | :03:59. | :04:01. | |
conference there was one posse allowing people to take a more | :04:01. | :04:06. | |
aggressive stance towards burglars. The Labour conference had a promise | :04:06. | :04:11. | |
to spend the money from the 4G sell-off to build 100,000 council | :04:11. | :04:15. | |
houses. That was not even a pledge for the next election. We are in a | :04:15. | :04:21. | |
policy desert. Michael Gove said to one of my colleagues, if you read | :04:21. | :04:26. | |
my speech and you think you see any policy or new announcement, you are | :04:26. | :04:32. | |
wrong. There is nothing in it. That is part of the problem. We inflate | :04:32. | :04:38. | |
conferences to a hugely significant importance. They do not merit it. | :04:38. | :04:44. | |
Very briefly we are looking ahead to the continuation of the Drew | :04:44. | :04:49. | |
Mitchell comments. People were concerned that people were feeding | :04:49. | :04:54. | |
it and trying to generate news out of it. Do you accept that there is | :04:54. | :04:57. | |
a responsibility there that political journalists do not take | :04:57. | :05:02. | |
seriously enough? I accept that a pack mentality develops around | :05:02. | :05:07. | |
wounded ministers. That is absolutely the case. I can recall | :05:07. | :05:11. | |
numerous occasions when ministers have been teetering and part of the | :05:11. | :05:14. | |
reason they are meant to go is because the media pressure becomes | :05:14. | :05:20. | |
unsustainable. That is part of the reality of modern politics. I do | :05:20. | :05:25. | |
not quite see how you do is invent that. In terms of this incident | :05:25. | :05:29. | |
specifically, yes of course there is a personality element to it, but | :05:29. | :05:32. | |
adding there is a bigger story to it because I think it resonates | :05:32. | :05:35. | |
with a broader perception that at the top of the Government there are | :05:35. | :05:39. | |
people from a background who do not the people of a lower social order | :05:39. | :05:44. | |
as quite what they should. There's a perception may take a lofty view | :05:44. | :05:54. | |
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topics we have been contacted about, starting with the ongoing story of | :06:00. | :06:04. | |
April Jones. On Wednesday, Mark Bridger egg heat -- appeared in | :06:04. | :06:08. | |
court charged with the abduction and murder of the five-year-old | :06:08. | :06:13. | |
girl. It is normal for the media organisations to run pictures once | :06:13. | :06:15. | |
the person has been charged, but given the fact that she has not | :06:15. | :06:25. | |
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been found, some dealers were Another shed that sentiment, | :06:34. | :06:44. | |
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On last week's programme the head of editorial policy at the BBC | :07:00. | :07:04. | |
discussed the BBC's news coverage of Jimmy Saville. It is clear the | :07:04. | :07:10. | |
row will not go away. This week the BBC said it is commissioning an | :07:10. | :07:17. | |
independent inquiry into the allegations. There will also be an | :07:17. | :07:20. | |
informal investigation into news by its decision to drop its report | :07:21. | :07:24. | |
into Jimmy Saville last year. On Thursday evening the programme put | :07:24. | :07:29. | |
itself under the spotlight. We decided not to run the story for | :07:29. | :07:32. | |
editorial reasons. The BBC is under pressure to | :07:32. | :07:42. | |
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explain why the story was not broadcast. One senior to -- once | :07:46. | :07:50. | |
senior executives knew that there was an inve was an inve into Jimmy | :07:50. | :07:53. | |
Saville and they could see the Christmas schedules and they could | :07:53. | :07:58. | |
see celebratory programmes about Jimmy Saville it is absolutely the | :07:58. | :08:04. | |
first thing you do. They would want anything else. Many dealers share a | :08:04. | :08:14. | |
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at the news at 6pm concerned Lance Armstrong, who was down to have | :08:45. | :08:52. | |
lied in court about taking Fallen idol - the cycling legend of | :08:52. | :08:56. | |
Lance Armstrong is labelled a serial cheat. A report from | :08:56. | :09:01. | |
America's Eddie doping agency. Spot the mistake? Check-in she did, | :09:01. | :09:11. | |
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disrupting a picnic but it is not often they get in the way of a news | :09:29. | :09:32. | |
reader. On a troublesome edition of Reporting Scotland this week, the | :09:32. | :09:37. | |
reader was already having to dig -- deal with the loss of sound on the | :09:37. | :09:42. | |
microphone. We will get a full weather forecast... But what is | :09:42. | :09:47. | |
that flicking and flitting around the screen? This the were thought | :09:47. | :09:57. | |
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We asked BBC Scotland for an explanation and they told us there | :10:12. | :10:15. | |
was a temporary problem with the sand and a couple of flies seemed | :10:15. | :10:21. | |
intent on getting in on the action. This is live broadcasting and you | :10:22. | :10:26. | |
occasionally get the occasion -- get blips but this one ended in a | :10:26. | :10:30. |