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Now it is done for Newswatch. -- time. Hello, welcome to Newswatch. | :00:13. | :00:18. | |
The Boston bomb attacks were dramatic and significant, but did | :00:18. | :00:26. | |
they get so much coverage because they took place on American soil? | :00:26. | :00:29. | |
Footballer bites footballer. Was this worth all the attention it was | :00:29. | :00:37. | |
given? And one fewer loggers the activity going on in the new | :00:37. | :00:41. | |
newsroom backdrop. It is just a shame the news reader has to get | :00:41. | :00:51. | |
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What is a life worth in terms of television airtime? It may seem a | :00:54. | :00:59. | |
brutal question but a string of deaths from violent attacks and | :00:59. | :01:03. | |
natural disasters has forced news editors to decide what priority to | :01:03. | :01:08. | |
give to each of them. About 300 people were killed when a building | :01:08. | :01:12. | |
collapsed in Bangladesh on Wednesday. This followed Saturday's | :01:12. | :01:16. | |
earthquake in China, were more than 200 people were reported dead or | :01:16. | :01:21. | |
missing. 30 casualties of last week's earthquake in Iran. 14 | :01:22. | :01:31. | |
people killed at a fertiliser plant in Texas. And ongoing conflict in | :01:31. | :01:37. | |
Afghanistan and Syria. One attack killing just three people has | :01:37. | :01:44. | |
dominated the news. This should have been a moment of celebration | :01:44. | :01:48. | |
for runners finishing the marathon. Instead there was confusion and | :01:48. | :01:55. | |
then horror. Surveillance footage shows two men with backpacks | :01:56. | :02:00. | |
walking together amongst the crowd. One man is wearing a dark baseball | :02:00. | :02:06. | |
cap, the other a white baseball cap. The man in the white cap was caught | :02:06. | :02:11. | |
talking on a cellphone near the set of the second explosion. A massive | :02:11. | :02:18. | |
police operation overnight in the suburb of Boston. Officers | :02:18. | :02:22. | |
searching for one of the suspected Marathon bombers. He apparently | :02:22. | :02:30. | |
escaped after a car chase and shoot-out. Nobody could have | :02:30. | :02:33. | |
imagined it would end like this. The late night climax of an | :02:33. | :02:38. | |
extraordinary week. As the suspect in the Boston bombing was cornered, | :02:38. | :02:45. | |
shot and driven away bleeding. This was all too much for some viewers, | :02:45. | :02:55. | |
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Others drew a comparison with the reporting of other foreign stories. | :03:11. | :03:15. | |
Kate Grant said the disaster and Bangladesh have received less | :03:15. | :03:25. | |
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Apology for the loss of subtitles for 40 seconds | :03:25. | :04:06. | |
With me now is the deputy head of BBC newsroom, James Stevenson. | :04:06. | :04:11. | |
Perhaps you could talk us through the decision-making process of how | :04:11. | :04:15. | |
much coverage to give the Boston Marathon over the last few days, | :04:15. | :04:19. | |
given the concern there is about apparent disproportion? This is | :04:19. | :04:23. | |
clearly a complex area, as your contributors have outlined. The | :04:23. | :04:29. | |
thing with the Boston bombing is that by any standards it is a major | :04:29. | :04:34. | |
story and a major event. That is to do with the fact it is the first | :04:34. | :04:40. | |
bombing on American soil in well over a decade, since 9/11. I think | :04:40. | :04:44. | |
that would have made it a very prominent story. People were | :04:44. | :04:46. | |
concerned that after a couple of days it was apparent that there was | :04:46. | :04:51. | |
not part of a major set of attacks. Some viewers felt given the scale | :04:51. | :04:55. | |
of what was going on Iraq, for example, the BBC should have | :04:55. | :05:01. | |
shifted its focus a lot sooner and that the coverage was | :05:01. | :05:05. | |
disproportionately on Boston? it seemed to become clear that | :05:05. | :05:09. | |
these two individuals were acting alone. But then there were | :05:09. | :05:12. | |
significant and important developments in the story as the | :05:12. | :05:16. | |
days passed, in terms of the man on do and the unprecedented lead | :05:16. | :05:26. | |
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locking down of Boston. -- the manhunt. The wider employer -- | :05:28. | :05:35. | |
International up implications of that in Chechenia. I do think it | :05:35. | :05:38. | |
had arrived at -- wider ramifications and justified | :05:38. | :05:44. | |
continued coverage. Some viewers are concerned with the fact that | :05:44. | :05:47. | |
rolling pictures seem dramatic. You had the manhunt story which took | :05:47. | :05:52. | |
over the rolling news networks. Again the accusation is, was a | :05:52. | :05:58. | |
proportion that given that you have got earthquakes, the Iraq bombings, | :05:58. | :06:03. | |
the Bangladesh factory collapsed, there are not getting anything like | :06:03. | :06:10. | |
the amount of coverage -- they are. We have that reporting of the Bank | :06:10. | :06:13. | |
the best bombing several nights in succession. That is clearly a | :06:13. | :06:20. | |
horrific story which we have been covering. Likewise last weekend | :06:20. | :06:24. | |
recovered the Chinese earthquake. We have been doing those other | :06:24. | :06:28. | |
stories as well. I think it is important to point and some of the | :06:29. | :06:33. | |
logistical constraints. The editorial judgments of Beesley play | :06:33. | :06:37. | |
their part. But the big earthquake in Iran, we do not have the ability | :06:37. | :06:44. | |
to get visas. We cannot report that in the way we would like to. Remote | :06:44. | :06:50. | |
part of China take longer for her teens to get to. Bangladesh. These | :06:50. | :06:54. | |
places are harder to get to. I recognise that material from | :06:54. | :07:00. | |
America is more widely available. That means we have to work harder | :07:00. | :07:03. | |
with the material we have in order to do justice to those important | :07:03. | :07:11. | |
stories. It wasn't about the picture access. Wednesday's 6 | :07:12. | :07:16. | |
o'clock News had nothing on Bangladesh. It did mention the | :07:16. | :07:21. | |
break-up of JLS. People will think that is bad editorial judgment? | :07:21. | :07:26. | |
People will question editorial does what all the time. We had one | :07:26. | :07:30. | |
sentence of the JLS breaking up. That is big news for a proportion | :07:30. | :07:37. | |
of our audience. The 10 o'clock News has a bit more of a remit to | :07:38. | :07:41. | |
focus on international news. Some of these other considerations do | :07:42. | :07:47. | |
come into play, about how readily available material is and how easy | :07:47. | :07:57. | |
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it is to get stories. Thank you very much. Now for some of the | :07:59. | :08:04. | |
other topics you have been contacting us about. Starting with | :08:04. | :08:09. | |
an image it has been hard to miss. Three days after sinking his jaws | :08:09. | :08:15. | |
into Ivanovitch, it was now the FA's turn to show its teeth. Luis | :08:15. | :08:18. | |
Suarez one of three matches, instead he got 10. That infamous by | :08:18. | :08:24. | |
by Luis Suarez was replayed numerous times, drawing the eye or | :08:24. | :08:34. | |
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There was little positive about a report from Jeremy Bowen on | :09:01. | :09:05. | |
Tuesday's News at Ten from Syria. He made a kidnap victim of the | :09:05. | :09:10. | |
conflict. He had had his finger chopped off and sent to his family, | :09:10. | :09:20. | |
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along with a video of the event, Finally, it has been six weeks | :09:49. | :09:53. | |
since BBC news bulletins and BBC News Channel moved to a new home in | :09:53. | :10:01. | |
central London. The backdrop continues to attract comment. One | :10:01. | :10:06. | |
viewer is enjoying it but not an away intended. I am fascinated by | :10:07. | :10:13. | |
the guys coming up and down with their cups of coffee, watching the | :10:13. | :10:20. | |
different screens. There was one with in New Court. She brought some | :10:20. | :10:25. | |
flowers to someone. I just wandered through the flowers were for. All | :10:25. | :10:31. | |
those screens are so interesting. It is just a pity really that there | :10:31. | :10:36. | |
is somebody in front of the set reading out the news. I just wonder | :10:36. | :10:40. | |
if you couldn't just persuade them to move to one side so we can | :10:40. | :10:45. | |
actually see the set properly. give for the hopeful suggestion. | :10:45. | :10:51. |