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A That's the news, now on BBC News it's time for Newswatch with Samira | :00:03. | :00:06. | |
Ahmed. This week some viewers complain that too many BBC | :00:06. | :00:08. | |
journalists were sent to Rome for the Pope's resignation, with others | :00:08. | :00:17. | |
saying the horsemeat scandal has Welcome to the programme. On this | :00:17. | :00:24. | |
week's programme: tonight at 10pm, we are in Rome where Pope Benedict | :00:24. | :00:27. | |
has unexpectedly announced his resignation. | :00:27. | :00:31. | |
What were we doing in Rome. What is she doing on a Welsh | :00:32. | :00:37. | |
country lane in the dark? One viewer begs BBC News to drop | :00:37. | :00:44. | |
the dead horse. Is it scaremongering over horsemeat? | :00:44. | :00:49. | |
When word came through on Monday morning, that Pope Benedict XVI | :00:49. | :00:53. | |
became the first pope in 600 years to resign, the BBC News operation | :00:53. | :00:59. | |
leapt into action. The story dominated the day and much of the | :00:59. | :01:05. | |
week on the BBC News Channel. Lots of reporters were all reporting | :01:05. | :01:10. | |
from the Vatican, supplementing the corporation's Rome-based | :01:10. | :01:14. | |
journalists. By Monday night, Huw Edwards had a right to present the | :01:15. | :01:21. | |
news at Ten, during which he talked to Europe Editor, Gavin Ewart. But | :01:21. | :01:25. | |
a viewers wondered what his presence added to the coverage. To | :01:26. | :01:32. | |
discuss these reactions I'm joined by the editor of the news at six | :01:32. | :01:37. | |
and the News at Ten and his deputy head of the BBC News room. And then | :01:37. | :01:43. | |
joined by our Blackburn studio by a viewer. John, what was your | :01:43. | :01:49. | |
reaction about the Pope's resignation? Very quickly the | :01:49. | :01:53. | |
reporting moved away from the statement the Pope had given, too | :01:53. | :01:59. | |
much more speculation and conjecture about the future. It did | :01:59. | :02:03. | |
not call for comments from other guests in the studio on the Pope's | :02:03. | :02:09. | |
legacy. But mainly -- what he would be caught in the future after he | :02:09. | :02:14. | |
steps down, and what relationship he might have with his successor. | :02:14. | :02:18. | |
You had a real concern about how many people were flying in to cover | :02:18. | :02:26. | |
the story? There was Huw Edwards on Monday. Jon Sopel was reporting | :02:26. | :02:32. | |
live from St Peter's Square on Tuesday. Handing over to Matthew | :02:32. | :02:37. | |
Price with a background piece on the Vatican issues. Followed by a | :02:37. | :02:41. | |
piece with Gavin Hewitt interviewing one of the African | :02:41. | :02:46. | |
cardinals, partly in the frame as a possible successor. It just seemed | :02:46. | :02:53. | |
to assume a sensational, dramatic dynamic story, which it really | :02:53. | :02:58. | |
wasn't. It was historic, but many questions remain to be answered. | :02:58. | :03:03. | |
Let me put some of back to James Stevens and. These issues come up | :03:03. | :03:07. | |
again and again, they feel they do not need someone standing outside a | :03:07. | :03:12. | |
building when there's nothing developing on a story? There are | :03:12. | :03:16. | |
viewers who don't like to see that and we like to recognise that and | :03:16. | :03:21. | |
we build that into the thinking on whether or not to deploy. The scale | :03:21. | :03:25. | |
of this story, I don't think anyone is in any real doubt about the | :03:25. | :03:30. | |
magnitude of the story. It is not often you can say something is | :03:30. | :03:35. | |
happening of major significance in 600 years. One of the tests we | :03:35. | :03:39. | |
applied on whether or not we will present from a location is the | :03:39. | :03:45. | |
magnitude of the story. In this case, it was clear cut. You have | :03:45. | :03:48. | |
two specialist correspondents who are based there full-time. The | :03:48. | :03:52. | |
Vatican is the one place away you'll not find out anything, | :03:52. | :03:59. | |
standing outside that building? do have very good correspondence in | :03:59. | :04:03. | |
Rome, Alan Johnston, and David Wyllie, who is a long-time watcher | :04:03. | :04:10. | |
of these events. When a huge story of this kind happens, the quantity | :04:10. | :04:15. | |
and demands of output wraps up beyond O-level a local bureau, even | :04:15. | :04:21. | |
a well-staffed one, can support. How much does it cost to send Huw | :04:21. | :04:25. | |
Edwards for couple of days? Not a great deal. He went on easyJet from | :04:25. | :04:30. | |
Gatwick. It is not a hugely expensive things. The challenges of | :04:30. | :04:33. | |
reporting a big and breaking story were illustrated on Thursday | :04:34. | :04:38. | |
morning, when the South African Paralympic athlete, Oscar Pistorius, | :04:38. | :04:43. | |
was arrested at his home in Pretoria on suspicion of murder. | :04:43. | :04:53. | |
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One of our viewers e-mailed us and I think this does connect with what | :05:02. | :05:09. | |
we were talking about the Vatican. Nothing was happened fouls, and | :05:09. | :05:15. | |
there was a crime story in South Africa. It is not true to say | :05:15. | :05:20. | |
nothing was happening. We have the dramatic news a shooting had | :05:20. | :05:27. | |
occurred at Oscar Pistorius Kostelic house. And we have the | :05:27. | :05:30. | |
bare bones what the police were confirming about that, an incident | :05:30. | :05:37. | |
had taken place. Quickly, we had the South African police giving a | :05:37. | :05:41. | |
press conference, which we carried live on the news channel. That gave | :05:41. | :05:45. | |
a substantial amount of information about what seemed to have taken | :05:45. | :05:50. | |
place. It is not really the case there wasn't a lot of hard fact, | :05:50. | :05:54. | |
but quite rapidly if there was quite a lot of hard facts. John | :05:54. | :06:00. | |
Mitchell, we were talking about this idea over speculation been | :06:00. | :06:04. | |
part of the news channel's coverage, and also the magnitude of stories | :06:04. | :06:09. | |
like the Pope's resignations. Do you understand just a vocation for | :06:09. | :06:14. | |
sending and the length of coverage? I don't quite accept that there was | :06:14. | :06:20. | |
a need for Huw Edwards to be in Rome, with the other European | :06:20. | :06:23. | |
correspondents and locally-based people, to add to the story. He | :06:23. | :06:28. | |
could not add to a story which had basically petered out. We knew | :06:28. | :06:33. | |
everything by about 2pm. John Mitchell, and Jayne Stevenson. | :06:34. | :06:38. | |
Thanks very much. -- James Stevenson. | :06:38. | :06:44. | |
Let us know your thoughts on that by any aspects on BBC News. | :06:44. | :06:48. | |
Now for some of your other concerns. The row over horsemeat found in | :06:48. | :06:53. | |
beef products continues to get plenty of air time. Experts agree | :06:53. | :06:57. | |
there is a serious issue of Ms labelling, contamination and a | :06:57. | :07:02. | |
criminal investigation is under way. Even though it has been revealed | :07:02. | :07:06. | |
the animal painkiller, bute may have entered the food chain, it | :07:06. | :07:09. | |
constitutes a low risk to humans and some viewers felt there has | :07:09. | :07:13. | |
been an element of hype in the coverage. One viewer was one of | :07:13. | :07:23. | |
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In that context, there has been much mention of the food standards | :07:29. | :07:35. | |
agency. At the start of the news channel bulletin on Sunday morning. | :07:35. | :07:45. | |
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But this view has spotted something Sunday night saw the annual big | :08:05. | :08:08. | |
night out for the British film industry. As the stars arrived in | :08:08. | :08:12. | |
the rain, a film critic joined Jayne Hill on the red carpet | :08:12. | :08:19. | |
discussing Sky for and the other contenders for all wards. It is | :08:19. | :08:24. | |
essentially a straw dogs in a Scottish house. I think they did a | :08:24. | :08:28. | |
brilliant job, and in that category it is hard to court. My vote would | :08:28. | :08:33. | |
be Sky fall, because it did something nobody expected to do | :08:33. | :08:38. | |
with James Bond, except reinvent it. About an hour-and-a-half of red | :08:38. | :08:43. | |
carpet coverage, and later the ceremony was shown on BBC One just | :08:43. | :08:48. | |
after the ceremony had taken place. So it you check the BBC website, | :08:48. | :08:58. | |
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Jayne Hill had spoiled another surprise for those who had not seen | :09:00. | :09:05. | |
Sky fall, by revealing a major plot twist. And that came up in an | :09:05. | :09:09. | |
interview conducted on the Andrew Marr Show last weekend by Sophie | :09:09. | :09:19. | |
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Raworth with the actress Judi Dench. We put that point to the Andrew | :09:22. | :09:32. | |
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Finally, Huw Edwards may have been sent to Rome, but Sian Lloyd had a | :09:52. | :09:58. | |
cold or assignment, appearing just after 6am at side of food | :09:58. | :10:02. | |
processing plants in Wales. I am in the middle of a countryside near | :10:02. | :10:07. | |
Aberystwyth. This country lane leads to the meat processing plant. | :10:07. | :10:17. | |
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Thanks for the suggestion. A weekly award it might be boring, but when | :10:41. | :10:45. | |
a viewer's thing such a prize should be awarded, we would try to | :10:45. | :10:50. |