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police were searching a number of locations. Now time for News watch | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
with Samir Ahmed. This week, protests about coverage of the | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
protest. Hello and welcome to New swatch. | :00:00. | :00:18. | |
Coming up this week, thousands marching London against austerity | :00:19. | :00:22. | |
cuts as BBC News `` is BBC News uninterested? He ask if coverage of | :00:23. | :00:26. | |
the phone hacking trial shows that the media is obsessed with reporting | :00:27. | :00:30. | |
its. It is showing this ice is recruitment video give terrorists | :00:31. | :00:33. | |
the oxygen of publicity? Last Saturday, just outside this BBC | :00:34. | :00:42. | |
building in central London, tens of thousands of protesters set off on a | :00:43. | :00:50. | |
march to Parliament Square. The group included politicians, union | :00:51. | :00:53. | |
leaders and the comedian Russell Brand, and they were demonstrating | :00:54. | :00:57. | |
against the impact of cuts being imposed under the government's | :00:58. | :01:01. | |
so`called austerity programme. But if you didn't see or hear about it | :01:02. | :01:05. | |
on BBC News, you were not alone. Thousands of people have complained | :01:06. | :01:09. | |
to the BBC that it did not give the demonstration the attention it | :01:10. | :01:10. | |
deserved. Among them was Dale Mason. We asked the BBC to come on and | :01:11. | :02:04. | |
discuss this new swatch, but they declined, sending us a statement | :02:05. | :02:08. | |
which I will read in a moment. In the meantime, one of those who was | :02:09. | :02:12. | |
marching on the streets of London last Saturday and encouraged others | :02:13. | :02:15. | |
on Twitter to disk `` to express their desert is fact and with the | :02:16. | :02:20. | |
BBC's dissatisfaction is the journalist Dylan Jones. What is your | :02:21. | :02:24. | |
concern? It is cowardly not to turn up to respond to these concerns in | :02:25. | :02:29. | |
person. I want to show you hear a report from 2011 on the BBC. It is a | :02:30. | :02:37. | |
report about pro `cuts demonstration, organised bike rally | :02:38. | :02:41. | |
against debts. This demonstration, there were not 10,000 or 5000 or | :02:42. | :02:49. | |
1000 people, 350 people turned up, yet this demonstration merited | :02:50. | :02:52. | |
extensive coverage on the BBC. 50,000 people demonstrated last week | :02:53. | :02:57. | |
and there was no coverage except when the BBC were bombarded with so | :02:58. | :03:01. | |
many complaints they posted a half`hearted link which had a video | :03:02. | :03:05. | |
lasting 20 seconds with no commentary. Millions of people | :03:06. | :03:08. | |
support the aims of this demonstration. Most people in this | :03:09. | :03:12. | |
country want renationalisation of the rail, energy, higher taxes on | :03:13. | :03:17. | |
the rich, they think the cuts are unfair and about a quarter of the | :03:18. | :03:20. | |
population oppose all cuts whatsoever. There will be people | :03:21. | :03:23. | |
watching who think I don't agree with that view, but I think they | :03:24. | :03:27. | |
would agree that if that is such a large vein of public opinion, of | :03:28. | :03:31. | |
people marching on the streets at a time when the government is not | :03:32. | :03:37. | |
being properly challenged about it `` about the narrative, there should | :03:38. | :03:40. | |
be some coverage of it, especially when coverage is given to a | :03:41. | :03:46. | |
demonstration with only 350 people in it. The BBC says, we covered this | :03:47. | :03:51. | |
demonstration on the BBC News channel with five reports throughout | :03:52. | :03:57. | |
the evening and on the BBC website and social media. | :03:58. | :04:24. | |
about the length of grass on the Wimbledon court. This is not the | :04:25. | :04:29. | |
days of the 1980s, when you have the six o'clock and the ten o'clock | :04:30. | :04:32. | |
news. There is a massive BBC website. There is rolling news | :04:33. | :04:37. | |
coverage on the news channel. Yet there was no coverage. They ran some | :04:38. | :04:45. | |
pictures... They posted a 22nd video, which informed people there | :04:46. | :04:49. | |
was no commentary, it showed a few people marching around and it only | :04:50. | :04:54. | |
came... Over 6000 people have complained to the BBC. I doubt there | :04:55. | :04:59. | |
has been any more complaints for a long time indeed. People like you | :05:00. | :05:03. | |
feel very passionately about this, but it is also a politically | :05:04. | :05:09. | |
divisive issue. It is significant that most other organisations, news | :05:10. | :05:13. | |
organisations, did not cover it with big reports. There is an issue about | :05:14. | :05:17. | |
the numbers who came and the timing. If this march had been pegged to | :05:18. | :05:19. | |
something like an imminent parliamentary vote, perhaps there | :05:20. | :05:24. | |
might have been a judgement that it was more newsworthy event. Austerity | :05:25. | :05:28. | |
is a constant news story, never ending. At the moment, not least | :05:29. | :05:31. | |
with the government's narrative that are turning the | :05:32. | :05:33. | |
with the government's narrative that are economy around even as living | :05:34. | :05:35. | |
standards are falling, the opportunity to show there are people | :05:36. | :05:39. | |
in Britain who disagree with that narrative and don't think the Labour | :05:40. | :05:43. | |
leadership are doing all they can, that is a very substantial news | :05:44. | :05:47. | |
story. There was a broader problem. This is why the march started at the | :05:48. | :05:52. | |
BBC. This is more ludicrous, they could not send the journalist | :05:53. | :05:56. | |
outside because of the lack of coverage of these issues. You think | :05:57. | :06:00. | |
the BBC is deliberately choosing to ignore these types of | :06:01. | :06:04. | |
demonstrations? Absolutely, the research by Cardiff University | :06:05. | :06:09. | |
found, for example, that on the six o'clock news there is 19 times more | :06:10. | :06:12. | |
interviews of business sources than trade union sources and trade | :06:13. | :06:18. | |
unionists working on this march. There is a bigger issue about the | :06:19. | :06:22. | |
attitude of trade unions. They are the biggest democratic movement in | :06:23. | :06:26. | |
the country, over 6 million workers belong to trade unions, yet there is | :06:27. | :06:32. | |
19 more times coverage of business leaders. The BBC rarely shows this | :06:33. | :06:37. | |
and I have to say someone had kicked off Juncker that demonstration and a | :06:38. | :06:40. | |
window had been smashed, there would have been cameras. Even if you | :06:41. | :06:46. | |
disagree with the protesters they should be able to air their views | :06:47. | :06:50. | |
and have a public broadcaster like to BBC give a platform, scrutinise | :06:51. | :06:54. | |
them, challenge them, criticised their arguments and put | :06:55. | :06:59. | |
counterarguments to them, but to not show any coverage whatsoever of tens | :07:00. | :07:05. | |
of thousands of people on an anti`government demonstration | :07:06. | :07:06. | |
marching through London is not defensible. That is why 6000 people | :07:07. | :07:10. | |
complained. Owen Jones, thanks very much. Nobody complained this week of | :07:11. | :07:18. | |
an insufficient focus from BBC News on the phone hacking trial, which | :07:19. | :07:25. | |
concluded on `` on Tuesday. Do you stand by what you said, that you | :07:26. | :07:28. | |
believed this was a witch hunt? The verdict, which saw Rebekah Brooks | :07:29. | :07:33. | |
cleared of all charges, while her successor Andy Coulson was found | :07:34. | :07:36. | |
guilty of conspiracy to hack phones, received extensive coverage | :07:37. | :07:40. | |
on the BBC, including a hastily scheduled panorama special on | :07:41. | :07:42. | |
Wednesday night. This media scrum on Thursday included more than one BBC | :07:43. | :07:49. | |
reporter cost of it was all too much for some viewers, including Vivian | :07:50. | :07:54. | |
Coombs, who left this phone message. The hacking trial seems to have gone | :07:55. | :07:59. | |
on forever. We hear the same old evidence being rehashed over and | :08:00. | :08:05. | |
over and over. It seems anything to do with the media, they can't stop | :08:06. | :08:08. | |
examining their own navels all the time. Also `` I am all for having it | :08:09. | :08:17. | |
reported, but not to the exclusion of everything else. We need a sense | :08:18. | :08:20. | |
of proportion and realise there are more things going on in the world | :08:21. | :08:24. | |
than Rebekah Brooks and her big hairdo. Since he's suffered serious | :08:25. | :08:28. | |
head injuries in a skiing accident last December, the medical statement | :08:29. | :08:33. | |
of `` the medical state of Michael Schumacher has captured attention. | :08:34. | :08:36. | |
He was placed in a medically induced coma for months, but has now left | :08:37. | :08:41. | |
hospital. It emerged this week that some of his medical files had been | :08:42. | :08:45. | |
stolen and were being offered for sale. On Thursday the BBC News | :08:46. | :08:47. | |
website ran a story whose headline struck Martin Zeltweg is ironic. | :08:48. | :09:07. | |
The emergence last Friday of a recruitment video for the Islamist | :09:08. | :09:14. | |
militant group ISIS, featuring two men from Cardiff and one from | :09:15. | :09:19. | |
Aberdeen, prompted a series of reports on BBC News. The video shows | :09:20. | :09:22. | |
the emerging as a British Muslims to join their war, but it's repeated | :09:23. | :09:26. | |
appearance concert and a number of news watch viewers including Susan | :09:27. | :09:27. | |
Turner. Finally, the BBC sends out breaking | :09:28. | :09:51. | |
news alerts or push notifications to smartphone users but the one send | :09:52. | :09:54. | |
out on Wednesday morning was very strange indeed. It read... | :09:55. | :10:08. | |
Confused? Had the service been hijacked by pranksters? Nope. And | :10:09. | :10:15. | |
apologises `` an apology was later sent out for what was sent out, test | :10:16. | :10:18. | |
notifications, in error. Thank you for that and all your | :10:19. | :11:01. | |
comments this week. If you want to share your opinions on BBC News and | :11:02. | :11:04. | |
current affairs, or appear on the programme, you can call us, or | :11:05. | :11:08. | |
e`mail us. You can have a look at our website, | :11:09. | :11:22. | |
or contact us on Twitter. You can search for previous topics and watch | :11:23. | :11:25. | |
any edition of the programme. That is all from us. We will be back to | :11:26. | :11:30. | |
hear your thoughts next week. Goodbye. | :11:31. | :11:41. | |
Hello, plenty of whether watching going on, rumbles of thunder and big | :11:42. | :11:48. | |
thunderstorms across parts of Norfolk and localised flooding. | :11:49. | :11:52. | |
Storms in the Glastonbury area also and | :11:53. | :11:53. |