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Now it is done for Newswatch. -- time. Hello, welcome to Newswatch.

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The Boston bomb attacks were dramatic and significant, but did

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they get so much coverage because they took place on American soil?

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Footballer bites footballer. Was this worth all the attention it was

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given? And one fewer loggers the activity going on in the new

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newsroom backdrop. It is just a shame the news reader has to get

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What is a life worth in terms of television airtime? It may seem a

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brutal question but a string of deaths from violent attacks and

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natural disasters has forced news editors to decide what priority to

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give to each of them. About 300 people were killed when a building

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collapsed in Bangladesh on Wednesday. This followed Saturday's

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earthquake in China, were more than 200 people were reported dead or

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missing. 30 casualties of last week's earthquake in Iran. 14

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people killed at a fertiliser plant in Texas. And ongoing conflict in

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Afghanistan and Syria. One attack killing just three people has

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dominated the news. This should have been a moment of celebration

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for runners finishing the marathon. Instead there was confusion and

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then horror. Surveillance footage shows two men with backpacks

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walking together amongst the crowd. One man is wearing a dark baseball

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cap, the other a white baseball cap. The man in the white cap was caught

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talking on a cellphone near the set of the second explosion. A massive

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police operation overnight in the suburb of Boston. Officers

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searching for one of the suspected Marathon bombers. He apparently

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escaped after a car chase and shoot-out. Nobody could have

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imagined it would end like this. The late night climax of an

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extraordinary week. As the suspect in the Boston bombing was cornered,

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shot and driven away bleeding. This was all too much for some viewers,

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Others drew a comparison with the reporting of other foreign stories.

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Kate Grant said the disaster and Bangladesh have received less

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Apology for the loss of subtitles for 40 seconds

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With me now is the deputy head of BBC newsroom, James Stevenson.

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Perhaps you could talk us through the decision-making process of how

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much coverage to give the Boston Marathon over the last few days,

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given the concern there is about apparent disproportion? This is

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clearly a complex area, as your contributors have outlined. The

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thing with the Boston bombing is that by any standards it is a major

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story and a major event. That is to do with the fact it is the first

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bombing on American soil in well over a decade, since 9/11. I think

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that would have made it a very prominent story. People were

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concerned that after a couple of days it was apparent that there was

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not part of a major set of attacks. Some viewers felt given the scale

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of what was going on Iraq, for example, the BBC should have

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shifted its focus a lot sooner and that the coverage was

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disproportionately on Boston? it seemed to become clear that

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these two individuals were acting alone. But then there were

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significant and important developments in the story as the

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days passed, in terms of the man on do and the unprecedented lead

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locking down of Boston. -- the manhunt. The wider employer --

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International up implications of that in Chechenia. I do think it

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had arrived at -- wider ramifications and justified

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continued coverage. Some viewers are concerned with the fact that

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rolling pictures seem dramatic. You had the manhunt story which took

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over the rolling news networks. Again the accusation is, was a

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proportion that given that you have got earthquakes, the Iraq bombings,

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the Bangladesh factory collapsed, there are not getting anything like

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the amount of coverage -- they are. We have that reporting of the Bank

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the best bombing several nights in succession. That is clearly a

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horrific story which we have been covering. Likewise last weekend

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recovered the Chinese earthquake. We have been doing those other

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stories as well. I think it is important to point and some of the

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logistical constraints. The editorial judgments of Beesley play

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their part. But the big earthquake in Iran, we do not have the ability

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to get visas. We cannot report that in the way we would like to. Remote

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part of China take longer for her teens to get to. Bangladesh. These

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places are harder to get to. I recognise that material from

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America is more widely available. That means we have to work harder

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with the material we have in order to do justice to those important

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stories. It wasn't about the picture access. Wednesday's 6

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o'clock News had nothing on Bangladesh. It did mention the

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break-up of JLS. People will think that is bad editorial judgment?

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People will question editorial does what all the time. We had one

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sentence of the JLS breaking up. That is big news for a proportion

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of our audience. The 10 o'clock News has a bit more of a remit to

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focus on international news. Some of these other considerations do

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come into play, about how readily available material is and how easy

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it is to get stories. Thank you very much. Now for some of the

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other topics you have been contacting us about. Starting with

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an image it has been hard to miss. Three days after sinking his jaws

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into Ivanovitch, it was now the FA's turn to show its teeth. Luis

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Suarez one of three matches, instead he got 10. That infamous by

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by Luis Suarez was replayed numerous times, drawing the eye or

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There was little positive about a report from Jeremy Bowen on

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Tuesday's News at Ten from Syria. He made a kidnap victim of the

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conflict. He had had his finger chopped off and sent to his family,

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along with a video of the event, Finally, it has been six weeks

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since BBC news bulletins and BBC News Channel moved to a new home in

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central London. The backdrop continues to attract comment. One

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viewer is enjoying it but not an away intended. I am fascinated by

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the guys coming up and down with their cups of coffee, watching the

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different screens. There was one with in New Court. She brought some

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flowers to someone. I just wandered through the flowers were for. All

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those screens are so interesting. It is just a pity really that there

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is somebody in front of the set reading out the news. I just wonder

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if you couldn't just persuade them to move to one side so we can

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actually see the set properly. give for the hopeful suggestion.

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