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police were searching a number of locations. Now time for News watch

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with Samir Ahmed. This week, protests about coverage of the

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protest. Hello and welcome to New swatch.

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Coming up this week, thousands marching London against austerity

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cuts as BBC News `` is BBC News uninterested? He ask if coverage of

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the phone hacking trial shows that the media is obsessed with reporting

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its. It is showing this ice is recruitment video give terrorists

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the oxygen of publicity? Last Saturday, just outside this BBC

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building in central London, tens of thousands of protesters set off on a

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march to Parliament Square. The group included politicians, union

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leaders and the comedian Russell Brand, and they were demonstrating

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against the impact of cuts being imposed under the government's

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so`called austerity programme. But if you didn't see or hear about it

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on BBC News, you were not alone. Thousands of people have complained

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to the BBC that it did not give the demonstration the attention it

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deserved. Among them was Dale Mason. We asked the BBC to come on and

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discuss this new swatch, but they declined, sending us a statement

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which I will read in a moment. In the meantime, one of those who was

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marching on the streets of London last Saturday and encouraged others

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on Twitter to disk `` to express their desert is fact and with the

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BBC's dissatisfaction is the journalist Dylan Jones. What is your

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concern? It is cowardly not to turn up to respond to these concerns in

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person. I want to show you hear a report from 2011 on the BBC. It is a

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report about pro `cuts demonstration, organised bike rally

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against debts. This demonstration, there were not 10,000 or 5000 or

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1000 people, 350 people turned up, yet this demonstration merited

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extensive coverage on the BBC. 50,000 people demonstrated last week

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and there was no coverage except when the BBC were bombarded with so

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many complaints they posted a half`hearted link which had a video

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lasting 20 seconds with no commentary. Millions of people

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support the aims of this demonstration. Most people in this

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country want renationalisation of the rail, energy, higher taxes on

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the rich, they think the cuts are unfair and about a quarter of the

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population oppose all cuts whatsoever. There will be people

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watching who think I don't agree with that view, but I think they

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would agree that if that is such a large vein of public opinion, of

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people marching on the streets at a time when the government is not

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being properly challenged about it `` about the narrative, there should

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be some coverage of it, especially when coverage is given to a

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demonstration with only 350 people in it. The BBC says, we covered this

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demonstration on the BBC News channel with five reports throughout

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the evening and on the BBC website and social media.

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about the length of grass on the Wimbledon court. This is not the

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days of the 1980s, when you have the six o'clock and the ten o'clock

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news. There is a massive BBC website. There is rolling news

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coverage on the news channel. Yet there was no coverage. They ran some

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pictures... They posted a 22nd video, which informed people there

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was no commentary, it showed a few people marching around and it only

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came... Over 6000 people have complained to the BBC. I doubt there

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has been any more complaints for a long time indeed. People like you

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feel very passionately about this, but it is also a politically

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divisive issue. It is significant that most other organisations, news

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organisations, did not cover it with big reports. There is an issue about

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the numbers who came and the timing. If this march had been pegged to

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something like an imminent parliamentary vote, perhaps there

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might have been a judgement that it was more newsworthy event. Austerity

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is a constant news story, never ending. At the moment, not least

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with the government's narrative that are turning the

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with the government's narrative that are economy around even as living

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standards are falling, the opportunity to show there are people

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in Britain who disagree with that narrative and don't think the Labour

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leadership are doing all they can, that is a very substantial news

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story. There was a broader problem. This is why the march started at the

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BBC. This is more ludicrous, they could not send the journalist

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outside because of the lack of coverage of these issues. You think

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the BBC is deliberately choosing to ignore these types of

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demonstrations? Absolutely, the research by Cardiff University

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found, for example, that on the six o'clock news there is 19 times more

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interviews of business sources than trade union sources and trade

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unionists working on this march. There is a bigger issue about the

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attitude of trade unions. They are the biggest democratic movement in

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the country, over 6 million workers belong to trade unions, yet there is

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19 more times coverage of business leaders. The BBC rarely shows this

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and I have to say someone had kicked off Juncker that demonstration and a

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window had been smashed, there would have been cameras. Even if you

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disagree with the protesters they should be able to air their views

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and have a public broadcaster like to BBC give a platform, scrutinise

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them, challenge them, criticised their arguments and put

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counterarguments to them, but to not show any coverage whatsoever of tens

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of thousands of people on an anti`government demonstration

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marching through London is not defensible. That is why 6000 people

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complained. Owen Jones, thanks very much. Nobody complained this week of

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an insufficient focus from BBC News on the phone hacking trial, which

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concluded on `` on Tuesday. Do you stand by what you said, that you

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believed this was a witch hunt? The verdict, which saw Rebekah Brooks

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cleared of all charges, while her successor Andy Coulson was found

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guilty of conspiracy to hack phones, received extensive coverage

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on the BBC, including a hastily scheduled panorama special on

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Wednesday night. This media scrum on Thursday included more than one BBC

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reporter cost of it was all too much for some viewers, including Vivian

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Coombs, who left this phone message. The hacking trial seems to have gone

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on forever. We hear the same old evidence being rehashed over and

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over and over. It seems anything to do with the media, they can't stop

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examining their own navels all the time. Also `` I am all for having it

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reported, but not to the exclusion of everything else. We need a sense

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of proportion and realise there are more things going on in the world

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than Rebekah Brooks and her big hairdo. Since he's suffered serious

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head injuries in a skiing accident last December, the medical statement

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of `` the medical state of Michael Schumacher has captured attention.

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He was placed in a medically induced coma for months, but has now left

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hospital. It emerged this week that some of his medical files had been

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stolen and were being offered for sale. On Thursday the BBC News

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website ran a story whose headline struck Martin Zeltweg is ironic.

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The emergence last Friday of a recruitment video for the Islamist

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militant group ISIS, featuring two men from Cardiff and one from

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Aberdeen, prompted a series of reports on BBC News. The video shows

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the emerging as a British Muslims to join their war, but it's repeated

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appearance concert and a number of news watch viewers including Susan

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Turner. Finally, the BBC sends out breaking

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news alerts or push notifications to smartphone users but the one send

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out on Wednesday morning was very strange indeed. It read...

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Confused? Had the service been hijacked by pranksters? Nope. And

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apologises `` an apology was later sent out for what was sent out, test

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notifications, in error. Thank you for that and all your

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comments this week. If you want to share your opinions on BBC News and

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current affairs, or appear on the programme, you can call us, or

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e`mail us. You can have a look at our website,

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or contact us on Twitter. You can search for previous topics and watch

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any edition of the programme. That is all from us. We will be back to

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hear your thoughts next week. Goodbye.

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Hello, plenty of whether watching going on, rumbles of thunder and big

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thunderstorms across parts of Norfolk and localised flooding.

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Storms in the Glastonbury area also and

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