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Hello and welcome to News watch. What priority should BBC News the

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giving to foreign stories such as the activities of Boko Haram in

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Nigeria. We are walking into Cabo city. John Simpson, who has covered

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the globe for many years gives is his view.

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And he looks back at what has changed for better or worse since

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BBC television news started, 60 years ago.

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The range of the BBC's international journalists is unrivalled amongst

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British media organisations. But how often they appear on our screen

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reporting from far`flung countries divide viewers. Putting as a top

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story as `` and African Union story to eradicate child marriage and

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brought brickbats as well as bouquets.

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We will be raising that with world affairs editor John Simpson. We will

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also be seeking his perspective on some of the changes BBC News has

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undergone since its first transmission 60 years ago next

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month. This is what it looked like on the 5th of July 1954.

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Moving pictures were at a premium and the graphics had a craft table

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feel about them. The newsreader, Richard Baker, was a disembodied

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voice for fear that his appearance would give away his views and

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threaten the appearance of neutrality. After a few weeks, the

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BBC did allow a presenter to be seen on screen. It started a process of

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personality presenting which has gone too far for some. For some

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time, the style remains safe and highly deferential. And now we are

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going to show you a film of some of the main stages in this great day.

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The relationship between broadcasters and politicians has got

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much more spiky since then and not everybody is in favour of that.

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Princess Margaret has followed a weekend in Yorkshire... There was

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not much visual about television in the 1950s. Now, output is at least

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partly differential `` driven by the availability of pictures which for

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some has been taken to extremes. What else has changed? To cover

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international events like the Hungarian uprising of 1956, a film

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crew might have had to disappear for weeks before returning home with out

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of date footage. This did not deter foreign correspondents like Martin

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Bell from taking considerable risks as he did in Vietnam. The BBC has

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just liberated the place! By the time John Simson reported from Cabo,

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technological advances have made broadcasting much more immediate if

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not necessarily more safe. Developers in transmitting kit made

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possible last week's trip to the extreme north`east of Nigeria. The

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look of news and the way it engages viewers has come a long way. What

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has been gained and lost? John Simpson is with me now.

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We do get complaints from those who feel there is too much news from

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abroad. Also those who think we don't get enough from regions like

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Latin America? How do you think it has changed over the years and is

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there more trouble getting some more international stories on? People

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always complain about exactly the same things, going back 50 years.

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Too much foreign news, as if it has nothing to do with us. Which seems

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to me dopey in a world as interconnected as ours. Too much

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political news, as though politics doesn't affect us. But I believe in

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news, it is my raison d'etre. Some people were very nostalgic for the

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old way of news writing, deferential to politicians. I could not bear

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that! My first day as a reporter in 1978, I got punched in the stomach

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for daring to ask Harold Wilson a question about when you would call

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an election. He punched me in the stomach, trying to wrestle the

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microphone out of my hand. I was working for radio. The world's press

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were there because they were waiting for an announcement and nobody, not

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one of the newspapers, not one of the television cameras, used these

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pictures. I looked at my watch afterwards, I was gossiping and it

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was 10:50 a.m.. I thought, I have lost my job and I have been

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assaulted by the Prime Minister and it is only my first morning at work!

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What difference has technology made? People used together with a

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big film crew and you are out of touch for weeks and then you had to

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come back with your footage and edit it. You can now fly in and start

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costing immediately, is that better? It is different. There is no doubt

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that in terms of the actuality of telling people what is going on,

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things are far better now. By the time you have worked your way to a

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place that you can get your film processed and sent it back, usually

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by plane to London, everything had changed. By the time ago broadcast.

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Now, you can be right up with events as they come along. But that means

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you don't know where the events are going, you are in as much of a

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quandary about what is happening, and what is going to happen, as

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everybody else. What have you made of the impact of 24`hour news. It

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can put pressure on correspondence to start filing immediately. Perhaps

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it is all chatter and no inside? Do you think there is pressure on

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journalists to start talking as soon as they land? Yes. I don't do it

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because I am old enough and ugly enough to be able to say no, I will

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find out what has happened and what the name of the place I am in is,

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before I start telling everybody what is going on. Not everybody is

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in that position. Yes, I think we have got a lot of games from being

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able to have instant news. `` we have a lot of advantages from it. It

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has opened up the world, changed our politics. But I'm a little nostalgic

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for the days when you could have time to think about what you were

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saying. Do you feel that reporters are under pressure and there has

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been a cost? Oh, yes. Precisely. They are under huge pressure and

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there is a big cost. The cost is simply not being able to think about

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you are saying. Just to get it out. That wonderful character in

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privatised who is `` in Private Eye who is the 24`hour news

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correspondent. We are talking on the anniversary of the massacre in the

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square in China. How does that feel for a correspondent like you, who

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tries to report what they saw? Would not have been thinking about Taman

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Square after 25 years if it were not for reporting. I am proud of mice

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colleagues and `` I'm proud of the stuff my colleagues and I did that.

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The man standing in front of a tank. It is a reality check which

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government is not always enthusiastic about. John Simpson,

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thank you very much. Before we go, time for a couple of

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other comments. The end has been dominated by commemorations of D`Day

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Landings. On Thursday, the eve of the anniversary, there was a

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broadcast from the Pegasus Bridge, on the French coast. Not everything

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went smoothly with the BBC coverage. What a key moment! You are watching,

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disappearing behind intent, and 89`year`old. Later on, the veterans

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were parachuted in with the aid of the red Devils.

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`` the red arrows. Finally, what are news plugs,

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promotions for other programmes on the news? Monday's early evening

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programme contained two examples. An item about Jimmy Savile derived from

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a Panorama examination which was followed by a Trail free programme

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that evening. Then a story about David Beckham's journey into the

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annals on. `` into the Amazon. Thank you for all your comments this

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week. If you want to share your opinions on BBC news on current

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affairs or even appear on the programme, call us. Or e`mail. You

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can find us on twitter as well. On our website, you can search for and

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view pew `` previous discussions. We will be back to hear your thoughts

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on BBC news coverage again next Friday.

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A cracking end the day for most areas but tomorrow, a humid day in

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