12/07/2013 Newswatch

week, was the news coverage of Andy Murray 's Wimbledon victory over the

top? Welcome to Newswatch with me, Samira

Ahmed. Game, set and match to Murray, but did BBC News think

tennis was the only game in town? Jeremy Bowen is recovering after

being injured while reporting on the protests in Egypt's. Our

journalistic risks worth taking? And she says one sentence, he says

another, is it time to end the verbal ping-pong between male and

female presenters? No doubt about the main news last

Sunday. Andy Murray did not just win the Wimbledon men's angles, but in

making our world history as well. It was the moment 77 years of

waiting ended in wonder. Andy Murray, Wimbledon to the, the words

he and the nation had yearned for so much for so long.

The scale of the news coverage led to some viewers reacting in a way

articulated by this anonymous phone call. I came in to watch the news at

ten o'clock, a 15 minute programme and so far we have had six minutes

of Andy Murray out of a 15 minute bulletin. How much Andy Murray do we

need? That was the end of a fortnight in which some felt BBC

television was dominated by tennis, leading to hundreds of complaints.

An e-mail from James Taylor picked up on the point we mentioned last

thought the weekend sports news coverage was a little bit tennis

Apology for the loss of subtitles for 53 seconds

head of sports news. Richard, or we will talk about Wimbledon to start

with, it was obviously a huge story, Andy Murray winning the men's

singles, but it was half of last Sunday 's evening News, was that not

excessive? It was one of those stories that transcended sport.

was a major cultural event in British social life. The first time

we have had a British men's singles champion for 77 years, something

talked about around the nation. Long. It was a highly significant

event, you know, I think that we always have to be careful about

getting too excited about sport and remembering where our place is in

the general scheme of things, but it was a significant news event, as

well as a sports news event. I think part of concern is that, these

days, you can watch the match if you want to, there are highlights that

would have been on later that link if you did miss it and in between

the news should have just reported it, but not let it take over the

programme to the extent it did. Plenty of people did not care about

tennis. We are aware that there is always a section of the audience who

are quite turned off, they are not sports fans, what is interesting is

the viewing figures for the BBC News Channel on Sunday after Murray had

one, when nearly double what they normally wear. It does seem that the

news audience were interested in this story. Having you on business

the opportunity to look at an issue, which is whether there is a

bias to certain sports and BBC sports coverage. Take the example of

the victory of the British and Irish Lions in Australia, the day before

Andy Murray 's victory. There was no mention on Sunday morning.

We covered the British and Irish Lions tour extensively. We had a

reporter there for the entire tour. Dan row did countless lives into the

breakfast programme, into regional news, into the news channel, we did

reports on network TV news, so I think we gave the British and Irish

Lions a significant amount of coverage. More than any other Lions

tour I can remember. Some people wonder if BBC have televising rights

to rugby and cricket in the way they do Wimbledon? Maybe that is why it

gets more news coverage? It is true that with events that BBC sport has

the rights to, we are able to show more action on the news. There is a

limit to how much we can show of events that we do not have the

television rights to. Again, we would never make an editorial

decision based on whether we have the rights to something or not. The

Ashes, we will do extensive coverage. We know that a lot of

viewers down to BBC News see the wicket during the Ashes and we do

not have the TV rights to it. That'll have no impact on how much

coverage we give the event. football season will be starting up

again and some will be delighted and some horrified, will you rethink its

prominence? Premier league football is extremely popular with them our

audience. As I said before, we are careful, we do not want it to

dominate and swamp everything. We have a responsibility to cover a

wide range of sport. Thank you so much.

Letters know your thoughts on that or any aspect of BBC News. Details

of how to contact us at the end of the programme. Now for more of your

reactions, starting with Egypt's weather situation remains volatile

and confused. It is dangerous for journalists and other staff, as was

made clear in Jeremy Bowen 's report from Cairo last Friday. The army

fired tear gas and shotguns into the crowd, the BBC team was in a group

hit by shotgun pellets. There are powerful forces against

each other in this country. On one hand, the Muslim brotherhood with

deep roots in the community, on the other, the Army seized control of

the country and wants to hold it. Unless they can channel all of this

into political action and not street protest, it is a recipe for more

violence. Since then, journalists from ITN,

CNN and Al Jazeera have been rounded up and detained by the Egyptian

authorities and Jeremy Bowen has had a successful operation to remove

shotgun poets from his head. -- shotgun pellets. He received praise

Henley-on-Thames had a different place of view is a Leo Lee Rigby who

was killed in May. The service began with a silent tribute.

Quiet in the centre of Bury as you join us for the special coverage.

Our correspondence is there at the church.

Yes, and you can see the mood now in the crowd here. One of quiet

reflection. Daniel Glass Ball was one of the

Human Rights ruled that life sentences given to Jeremy Bamber and

two other convicted killers breached human rights. The BBC News website

reported the opposite, headlining its article, UK killer is not

entitled to life sentence review. A spokesman later rip apologise for

the mistake saying that previous court judgement was erroneously

entered into the system and that this Dory was updated as soon as it

was recognised. Robert Feal-Martinez and breakfast are presented by two

people, often a man and a woman. This gives rise to a habit which

this week about BBC News and current affairs, positive and negative. If