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Hello and welcome to News watch. What priority should BBC News the | :00:14. | :00:22. | |
giving to foreign stories such as the activities of Boko Haram in | :00:23. | :00:26. | |
Nigeria. We are walking into Cabo city. John Simpson, who has covered | :00:27. | :00:32. | |
the globe for many years gives is his view. | :00:33. | :00:37. | |
And he looks back at what has changed for better or worse since | :00:38. | :00:41. | |
BBC television news started, 60 years ago. | :00:42. | :00:50. | |
The range of the BBC's international journalists is unrivalled amongst | :00:51. | :00:54. | |
British media organisations. But how often they appear on our screen | :00:55. | :00:59. | |
reporting from far`flung countries divide viewers. Putting as a top | :01:00. | :01:05. | |
story as `` and African Union story to eradicate child marriage and | :01:06. | :01:10. | |
brought brickbats as well as bouquets. | :01:11. | :01:34. | |
We will be raising that with world affairs editor John Simpson. We will | :01:35. | :01:40. | |
also be seeking his perspective on some of the changes BBC News has | :01:41. | :01:44. | |
undergone since its first transmission 60 years ago next | :01:45. | :01:48. | |
month. This is what it looked like on the 5th of July 1954. | :01:49. | :01:58. | |
Moving pictures were at a premium and the graphics had a craft table | :01:59. | :02:03. | |
feel about them. The newsreader, Richard Baker, was a disembodied | :02:04. | :02:08. | |
voice for fear that his appearance would give away his views and | :02:09. | :02:11. | |
threaten the appearance of neutrality. After a few weeks, the | :02:12. | :02:17. | |
BBC did allow a presenter to be seen on screen. It started a process of | :02:18. | :02:22. | |
personality presenting which has gone too far for some. For some | :02:23. | :02:26. | |
time, the style remains safe and highly deferential. And now we are | :02:27. | :02:31. | |
going to show you a film of some of the main stages in this great day. | :02:32. | :02:36. | |
The relationship between broadcasters and politicians has got | :02:37. | :02:40. | |
much more spiky since then and not everybody is in favour of that. | :02:41. | :03:02. | |
Princess Margaret has followed a weekend in Yorkshire... There was | :03:03. | :03:09. | |
not much visual about television in the 1950s. Now, output is at least | :03:10. | :03:15. | |
partly differential `` driven by the availability of pictures which for | :03:16. | :03:16. | |
some has been taken to extremes. What else has changed? To cover | :03:17. | :03:42. | |
international events like the Hungarian uprising of 1956, a film | :03:43. | :03:46. | |
crew might have had to disappear for weeks before returning home with out | :03:47. | :03:51. | |
of date footage. This did not deter foreign correspondents like Martin | :03:52. | :03:54. | |
Bell from taking considerable risks as he did in Vietnam. The BBC has | :03:55. | :04:04. | |
just liberated the place! By the time John Simson reported from Cabo, | :04:05. | :04:09. | |
technological advances have made broadcasting much more immediate if | :04:10. | :04:16. | |
not necessarily more safe. Developers in transmitting kit made | :04:17. | :04:23. | |
possible last week's trip to the extreme north`east of Nigeria. The | :04:24. | :04:27. | |
look of news and the way it engages viewers has come a long way. What | :04:28. | :04:33. | |
has been gained and lost? John Simpson is with me now. | :04:34. | :04:38. | |
We do get complaints from those who feel there is too much news from | :04:39. | :04:43. | |
abroad. Also those who think we don't get enough from regions like | :04:44. | :04:48. | |
Latin America? How do you think it has changed over the years and is | :04:49. | :04:50. | |
there more trouble getting some more international stories on? People | :04:51. | :04:55. | |
always complain about exactly the same things, going back 50 years. | :04:56. | :05:01. | |
Too much foreign news, as if it has nothing to do with us. Which seems | :05:02. | :05:07. | |
to me dopey in a world as interconnected as ours. Too much | :05:08. | :05:13. | |
political news, as though politics doesn't affect us. But I believe in | :05:14. | :05:22. | |
news, it is my raison d'etre. Some people were very nostalgic for the | :05:23. | :05:26. | |
old way of news writing, deferential to politicians. I could not bear | :05:27. | :05:34. | |
that! My first day as a reporter in 1978, I got punched in the stomach | :05:35. | :05:42. | |
for daring to ask Harold Wilson a question about when you would call | :05:43. | :05:46. | |
an election. He punched me in the stomach, trying to wrestle the | :05:47. | :05:50. | |
microphone out of my hand. I was working for radio. The world's press | :05:51. | :05:53. | |
were there because they were waiting for an announcement and nobody, not | :05:54. | :05:58. | |
one of the newspapers, not one of the television cameras, used these | :05:59. | :06:03. | |
pictures. I looked at my watch afterwards, I was gossiping and it | :06:04. | :06:09. | |
was 10:50 a.m.. I thought, I have lost my job and I have been | :06:10. | :06:12. | |
assaulted by the Prime Minister and it is only my first morning at work! | :06:13. | :06:19. | |
What difference has technology made? People used together with a | :06:20. | :06:23. | |
big film crew and you are out of touch for weeks and then you had to | :06:24. | :06:26. | |
come back with your footage and edit it. You can now fly in and start | :06:27. | :06:33. | |
costing immediately, is that better? It is different. There is no doubt | :06:34. | :06:38. | |
that in terms of the actuality of telling people what is going on, | :06:39. | :06:44. | |
things are far better now. By the time you have worked your way to a | :06:45. | :06:48. | |
place that you can get your film processed and sent it back, usually | :06:49. | :06:52. | |
by plane to London, everything had changed. By the time ago broadcast. | :06:53. | :07:01. | |
Now, you can be right up with events as they come along. But that means | :07:02. | :07:04. | |
you don't know where the events are going, you are in as much of a | :07:05. | :07:11. | |
quandary about what is happening, and what is going to happen, as | :07:12. | :07:16. | |
everybody else. What have you made of the impact of 24`hour news. It | :07:17. | :07:22. | |
can put pressure on correspondence to start filing immediately. Perhaps | :07:23. | :07:25. | |
it is all chatter and no inside? Do you think there is pressure on | :07:26. | :07:29. | |
journalists to start talking as soon as they land? Yes. I don't do it | :07:30. | :07:34. | |
because I am old enough and ugly enough to be able to say no, I will | :07:35. | :07:38. | |
find out what has happened and what the name of the place I am in is, | :07:39. | :07:42. | |
before I start telling everybody what is going on. Not everybody is | :07:43. | :07:51. | |
in that position. Yes, I think we have got a lot of games from being | :07:52. | :07:58. | |
able to have instant news. `` we have a lot of advantages from it. It | :07:59. | :08:04. | |
has opened up the world, changed our politics. But I'm a little nostalgic | :08:05. | :08:08. | |
for the days when you could have time to think about what you were | :08:09. | :08:12. | |
saying. Do you feel that reporters are under pressure and there has | :08:13. | :08:17. | |
been a cost? Oh, yes. Precisely. They are under huge pressure and | :08:18. | :08:24. | |
there is a big cost. The cost is simply not being able to think about | :08:25. | :08:31. | |
you are saying. Just to get it out. That wonderful character in | :08:32. | :08:38. | |
privatised who is `` in Private Eye who is the 24`hour news | :08:39. | :08:47. | |
correspondent. We are talking on the anniversary of the massacre in the | :08:48. | :08:51. | |
square in China. How does that feel for a correspondent like you, who | :08:52. | :08:57. | |
tries to report what they saw? Would not have been thinking about Taman | :08:58. | :09:01. | |
Square after 25 years if it were not for reporting. I am proud of mice | :09:02. | :09:09. | |
colleagues and `` I'm proud of the stuff my colleagues and I did that. | :09:10. | :09:13. | |
The man standing in front of a tank. It is a reality check which | :09:14. | :09:18. | |
government is not always enthusiastic about. John Simpson, | :09:19. | :09:26. | |
thank you very much. Before we go, time for a couple of | :09:27. | :09:34. | |
other comments. The end has been dominated by commemorations of D`Day | :09:35. | :09:38. | |
Landings. On Thursday, the eve of the anniversary, there was a | :09:39. | :09:43. | |
broadcast from the Pegasus Bridge, on the French coast. Not everything | :09:44. | :09:45. | |
went smoothly with the BBC coverage. What a key moment! You are watching, | :09:46. | :10:05. | |
disappearing behind intent, and 89`year`old. Later on, the veterans | :10:06. | :10:11. | |
were parachuted in with the aid of the red Devils. | :10:12. | :10:21. | |
`` the red arrows. Finally, what are news plugs, | :10:22. | :10:36. | |
promotions for other programmes on the news? Monday's early evening | :10:37. | :10:43. | |
programme contained two examples. An item about Jimmy Savile derived from | :10:44. | :10:48. | |
a Panorama examination which was followed by a Trail free programme | :10:49. | :10:52. | |
that evening. Then a story about David Beckham's journey into the | :10:53. | :10:53. | |
annals on. `` into the Amazon. Thank you for all your comments this | :10:54. | :11:13. | |
week. If you want to share your opinions on BBC news on current | :11:14. | :11:16. | |
affairs or even appear on the programme, call us. Or e`mail. You | :11:17. | :11:30. | |
can find us on twitter as well. On our website, you can search for and | :11:31. | :11:35. | |
view pew `` previous discussions. We will be back to hear your thoughts | :11:36. | :11:41. | |
on BBC news coverage again next Friday. | :11:42. | :11:55. | |
A cracking end the day for most areas but tomorrow, a humid day in | :11:56. | :11:56. |