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open enough about what was known inside the corporation?

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There is a fly in my studio. A BBC Scotland news bulletin is disrupted

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by intact. Because of budget cuts, the past

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three weeks of party conferences have not been broadcast as

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extensively as in previous years. But what you member of what has

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been shown? Chances are it is not policy announcements and debates,

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but how error that give representatives performed,

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especially the party leaders. They were cheered still further by

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another rousing performance from the London mayor, who has been

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stealing the limelight here. He brushed aside yet more questions

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about his own leadership ambitions and lavished praise on his old

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friends at, the Prime Minister. was pleased to seek you Corby a

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blond-haired pop in the pages of the papers. -- called me.

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Here are the conference there is something approaching a personality

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cult. Some are already fed to it -- fantasising about what portfolio he

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would choose. If he is a personality cult, is

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that the doing of the media? Some news which viewers to detect an

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emphasis on people not policies. One duet decried the tendency to

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create a hype and entertainment. Well, one person who has been

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living and breathing the party conferences for the past three

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weeks is the chief political conference -- correspondent for BBC

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News, Norman's -- Norman Smith. TUC why viewers can get concerned?

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is very hard to disentangle personalities from policies and

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will politics because personalities help to shape politics. It has

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always been that way. If you look two previous conferences through

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history, big figures have dominated them. It is absolutely impossible

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to strip out personalities from politics. One thing I would say

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with regard to Boris Johnson is I think there is a danger in the

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regard of taking him on in his own field. Rather than challenging him

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as robustly as we do other politicians. When it comes down to

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detail, in specific policies, Boris Johnson tends to be a much less

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sure-footed politician. I think there is nothing wrong in

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emphasising his personal attractiveness to the electorate.

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What I would suggest is we need to engage more robustly with the sort

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of policies he espouses. You say people have always been interested

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in personality, which is true, but there's a sense of the people

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watching that it is almost like gossip. Dear not accept that there

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is something about the time that is fed too much interest in that sort

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of soap opera and not enough interest in what actually happened?

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-- do you not. I will tell you what happened, very little. That is part

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of the reason why perhaps there is destroying back into poll of --

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personalities. That is an excuse, isn't it? That is possible, but I

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tell you the difficulty is there is a lack of policy being given to

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journalists to report on. If you take, for example, the last

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conference there was one posse allowing people to take a more

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aggressive stance towards burglars. The Labour conference had a promise

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to spend the money from the 4G sell-off to build 100,000 council

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houses. That was not even a pledge for the next election. We are in a

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policy desert. Michael Gove said to one of my colleagues, if you read

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my speech and you think you see any policy or new announcement, you are

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wrong. There is nothing in it. That is part of the problem. We inflate

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conferences to a hugely significant importance. They do not merit it.

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Very briefly we are looking ahead to the continuation of the Drew

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Mitchell comments. People were concerned that people were feeding

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it and trying to generate news out of it. Do you accept that there is

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a responsibility there that political journalists do not take

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seriously enough? I accept that a pack mentality develops around

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wounded ministers. That is absolutely the case. I can recall

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numerous occasions when ministers have been teetering and part of the

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reason they are meant to go is because the media pressure becomes

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unsustainable. That is part of the reality of modern politics. I do

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not quite see how you do is invent that. In terms of this incident

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specifically, yes of course there is a personality element to it, but

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adding there is a bigger story to it because I think it resonates

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with a broader perception that at the top of the Government there are

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people from a background who do not the people of a lower social order

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as quite what they should. There's a perception may take a lofty view

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topics we have been contacted about, starting with the ongoing story of

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April Jones. On Wednesday, Mark Bridger egg heat -- appeared in

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court charged with the abduction and murder of the five-year-old

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girl. It is normal for the media organisations to run pictures once

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the person has been charged, but given the fact that she has not

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been found, some dealers were Another shed that sentiment,

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On last week's programme the head of editorial policy at the BBC

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discussed the BBC's news coverage of Jimmy Saville. It is clear the

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row will not go away. This week the BBC said it is commissioning an

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independent inquiry into the allegations. There will also be an

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informal investigation into news by its decision to drop its report

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into Jimmy Saville last year. On Thursday evening the programme put

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itself under the spotlight. We decided not to run the story for

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editorial reasons. The BBC is under pressure to

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explain why the story was not broadcast. One senior to -- once

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senior executives knew that there was an inve was an inve into Jimmy

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Saville and they could see the Christmas schedules and they could

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see celebratory programmes about Jimmy Saville it is absolutely the

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first thing you do. They would want anything else. Many dealers share a

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at the news at 6pm concerned Lance Armstrong, who was down to have

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lied in court about taking Fallen idol - the cycling legend of

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Lance Armstrong is labelled a serial cheat. A report from

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America's Eddie doping agency. Spot the mistake? Check-in she did,

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disrupting a picnic but it is not often they get in the way of a news

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reader. On a troublesome edition of Reporting Scotland this week, the

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reader was already having to dig -- deal with the loss of sound on the

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microphone. We will get a full weather forecast... But what is

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that flicking and flitting around the screen? This the were thought

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We asked BBC Scotland for an explanation and they told us there

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was a temporary problem with the sand and a couple of flies seemed

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intent on getting in on the action. This is live broadcasting and you

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occasionally get the occasion -- get blips but this one ended in a

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