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headlines are coming up in the BBC News at nine, but now it is time for | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
Newswatch. This week Samira Ahmed focuses on the BBC News website. | :00:00. | :00:10. | |
Welcome to Newswatch. Coming up: After the European Union ruled there | :00:11. | :00:19. | |
was a right to be forgotten, Google removed links to some online news | :00:20. | :00:24. | |
articles including BBC news pieces. What should the BBC be doing about | :00:25. | :00:29. | |
it? And should the BBC ever remove its own news stories? I will ask the | :00:30. | :00:34. | |
head of BBC News online about how they handle direct requests from | :00:35. | :00:35. | |
individuals every week. If you have felt your reputation | :00:36. | :00:45. | |
could be ruined by an article posted on a website, you might fight hard | :00:46. | :00:49. | |
to try to ensure no one reads it, but would such an attempt ever be | :00:50. | :00:53. | |
justified or is this just censorship? Google waded into this | :00:54. | :00:57. | |
debate last week by removing links to some news articles after requests | :00:58. | :01:02. | |
made under the European Union's right to be forgotten ruling. One | :01:03. | :01:05. | |
was a blog post written by Robert pest in seven years ago about the | :01:06. | :01:10. | |
American bank Merrill Lynch. The BBC economics editor himself takes up | :01:11. | :01:15. | |
the story. Somebody complained that this | :01:16. | :01:20. | |
article was in some sense not appropriate, irrelevant... Damaging | :01:21. | :01:25. | |
to them, and they asked Google to make it much harder to be `` for | :01:26. | :01:29. | |
people to find it and Google said yes. I found this quite shocking. | :01:30. | :01:33. | |
Google has since restored links to some articles, though not that one | :01:34. | :01:37. | |
by Robert Heston. It can still be read but cannot be found by a Google | :01:38. | :01:42. | |
search. But this issue affects the BBC in another way. It's News | :01:43. | :01:47. | |
website also receives an increasing number of director quests from | :01:48. | :01:49. | |
individuals to remove articles permanently from the online archive, | :01:50. | :01:53. | |
so how does it deal with these requests? To discuss this I am | :01:54. | :02:04. | |
joined by the editor of BBC News online Steve Herrmann. I understand | :02:05. | :02:06. | |
you get these requests weekly to take stories down. What are the | :02:07. | :02:08. | |
reasons people give for these requests? The reasons people ask | :02:09. | :02:11. | |
there is hugely. I won't go into individual specific cases, but | :02:12. | :02:15. | |
things like people saying, I was involved in something some years ago | :02:16. | :02:18. | |
which I now find embarrassing and I would rather it wasn't there, to | :02:19. | :02:24. | |
something coming up when people Google my name and I am looking for | :02:25. | :02:28. | |
a job and I am worried it might affect my job prospects, all the way | :02:29. | :02:32. | |
through to, something where somebody was involved in court proceedings | :02:33. | :02:37. | |
and they want to ensure that the record is clear, that they were | :02:38. | :02:44. | |
cleared, or things where something quite traumatic happened to them and | :02:45. | :02:48. | |
they don't want the full detail of the news reports at the time to be | :02:49. | :02:52. | |
something people can look for and read or watch. Do you ever comply | :02:53. | :02:56. | |
with these requests? Many viewers will be concerned at the very idea | :02:57. | :03:00. | |
that the BBC might consider taking down in article just because someone | :03:01. | :03:04. | |
doesn't want anybody to see it. We have always taken a very careful | :03:05. | :03:08. | |
look at every one of those requests and we only agree to them in | :03:09. | :03:13. | |
exceptional circumstances. So the kinds of criteria we use, the chief | :03:14. | :03:17. | |
one really is balancing the harm to the individual against the harm to | :03:18. | :03:20. | |
the public interest in having a the public interest in having a | :03:21. | :03:23. | |
permanent record, and archive, of all the news events, in the same way | :03:24. | :03:31. | |
library might have a record in the newspaper, the physical newspaper | :03:32. | :03:34. | |
archive, so balancing those two things. But we also considered for | :03:35. | :03:38. | |
example, whether the story was a matter of public record anyway, | :03:39. | :03:42. | |
because it happened in open court, or whether it is so widely available | :03:43. | :03:46. | |
on the Internet anyway that is removing it is neither here nor | :03:47. | :03:50. | |
there. So we do consider each request carefully and only agree in | :03:51. | :03:54. | |
exceptional circumstances. We share the concern of viewers and readers | :03:55. | :03:58. | |
about preserving the integrity of our archive. There are couple of | :03:59. | :04:03. | |
other issues about the BBC News website which viewers have been | :04:04. | :04:07. | |
raising. One is from Hillary Melrose from doorstep. Concerned she has | :04:08. | :04:12. | |
about a feature on the website front page. She e`mailed us this. | :04:13. | :04:44. | |
That is one of a number of complaints along those lines that we | :04:45. | :04:50. | |
have had. This week there was a popular story that was seven years | :04:51. | :04:54. | |
old. Why does that happen? The reason some stories resurface can | :04:55. | :04:59. | |
vary but it can be as simple as a website that has a big following, | :05:00. | :05:03. | |
big traffic somewhere in the world, links back to one of our stories in | :05:04. | :05:07. | |
some context, because they are retelling a similar story for | :05:08. | :05:10. | |
whatever reason, so people come to the story for that reason, or it | :05:11. | :05:20. | |
could be that it has been shared by someone with a big following on a | :05:21. | :05:22. | |
social network. There are many reasons these stories resurface, and | :05:23. | :05:24. | |
once they do they sometimes stay there for a while as other people | :05:25. | :05:27. | |
come to them. You get this effect from time to time and Disraeli | :05:28. | :05:30. | |
because the module does what it says on the tin, which is the most read | :05:31. | :05:34. | |
and most watched at any given moment. This can be confusing for | :05:35. | :05:38. | |
viewers, can't it, because you see something you think has just | :05:39. | :05:41. | |
happened and it hasn't. What can you do about it? We are working on | :05:42. | :05:45. | |
trying to make it clear when we are showing an old story, so just to be | :05:46. | :05:48. | |
clear, when you get to the story, once you land on the story and are | :05:49. | :05:58. | |
reading it it is clear at the top of the page that it is an old story. | :05:59. | :06:01. | |
There is a date stamp on every story, but we want to make it | :06:02. | :06:04. | |
clearer even before you click on the story that if you click on this | :06:05. | :06:07. | |
headline it would be an old story. We are experimenting with a format | :06:08. | :06:09. | |
that says something like, this story is more than a month old or more | :06:10. | :06:12. | |
than three months old. The technicalities of implement in that | :06:13. | :06:14. | |
are still being worked through, so you may have seen notices to that | :06:15. | :06:17. | |
effect on some stories in the last week or so. They are not there all | :06:18. | :06:20. | |
the time because we are still working on the fix at the moment. | :06:21. | :06:26. | |
Another objection we get a lot from website users, some people want to | :06:27. | :06:29. | |
comment on a story but not every article have that option. This is | :06:30. | :06:32. | |
what Joshua e`mailed us. Rebecca from Swansea agreed, asking | :06:33. | :06:45. | |
this week: You give readers the facility to | :06:46. | :06:59. | |
comment on some stories but not others. Why not just on all of | :07:00. | :07:04. | |
them? When we decide which stories to put comments on, we look for | :07:05. | :07:08. | |
those key stories of the day, usually among the top stories, which | :07:09. | :07:14. | |
are likely to attract a degree of debate, opinion, discussion and | :07:15. | :07:17. | |
likely to engage audiences, stories where people have strong opinions | :07:18. | :07:21. | |
they want to express and have a debate about. We are selective about | :07:22. | :07:25. | |
it and try to choose those stories where we will have the best quality | :07:26. | :07:30. | |
of debate. We don't put them on every story. On some stories there | :07:31. | :07:34. | |
are legal considerations, but also more broadly we do moderate our | :07:35. | :07:38. | |
comments and we have a lot of stories every day that we publish, | :07:39. | :07:42. | |
and many users come to the website and say there is an issue of scale | :07:43. | :07:47. | |
as well that we must be mindful of when we think about which stories | :07:48. | :07:51. | |
have comments. Thank you very much, Steve Herrmann. You can find more | :07:52. | :07:55. | |
information about the BBC's policy on removing online content and a | :07:56. | :08:00. | |
host of other matters at our website. The addresses the screen. | :08:01. | :08:07. | |
`` on the screen. Letters know your thoughts on the BBC News website or | :08:08. | :08:12. | |
any aspect of BBC News. Details of how to contact us at the end of the | :08:13. | :08:16. | |
programme. Now for some of your other concerns this week starting | :08:17. | :08:20. | |
with the allegations swirling around Westminster of paedophilia made | :08:21. | :08:23. | |
against senior politicians and other establishment figures, outlined in | :08:24. | :08:26. | |
documents passed to the then Home Secretary in the 1980s and now | :08:27. | :08:31. | |
lost. A very serious and complex story and one which Suzanne Lawrence | :08:32. | :08:35. | |
felt was not being reported well. She e`mailed us to say: | :08:36. | :09:09. | |
The football World Cup is almost over and Wimbledon has finished for | :09:10. | :09:14. | |
another year, but the coverage of sports News continues to attract | :09:15. | :09:18. | |
attention. On last week 's programme we showed two screenshots from the | :09:19. | :09:22. | |
BBC sport website sent to us by a viewer who wondered if the BBC | :09:23. | :09:26. | |
described Andy Murray as British when he wins and Scottish when he | :09:27. | :09:31. | |
loses. BBC sport online have since been in touch with us denying that | :09:32. | :09:35. | |
suggestion and pointing out that the tennis player was referred to as | :09:36. | :09:39. | |
both British and Scottish at different points in both articles | :09:40. | :09:49. | |
quoted, one about his defeat at Wimbledon and one about an early | :09:50. | :09:52. | |
victory. They are but they try to use both terms about Andy Murray in | :09:53. | :09:55. | |
all their pieces about him, win or lose. Losing has been the talk of | :09:56. | :09:57. | |
Brazil this week it seems following the national football team 's | :09:58. | :10:01. | |
disastrous 7`1 defeat by Germany in Tuesday 's World Cup semifinal. But | :10:02. | :10:05. | |
how much of a calamity was this really? Here is Richard Batty. | :10:06. | :10:30. | |
At least us the World Cup draws to a close we may see a lull in the | :10:31. | :10:37. | |
numerous complaints we have received about sport dominating news | :10:38. | :10:40. | |
bulletins. Bob streets summed up that view with this helpful | :10:41. | :10:41. | |
suggestion. That is all from us. Thanks for all | :10:42. | :11:05. | |
your comments this week. If you want to share your opinions on BBC News | :11:06. | :11:09. | |
and current affairs or even appear on the programme, call us or e`mail | :11:10. | :11:19. | |
us. You can find us on Twitter, and do have a look at our website. | :11:20. | :11:25. | |
That's all from us. We will be back to hear your thoughts about BBC News | :11:26. | :11:29. | |
coverage again next week. Goodbye. Good evening. We have had some | :11:30. | :11:41. | |
decent weather again across the country today. Sunshine sending | :11:42. | :11:45. | |
temperatures up into the mid`20s Celsius, but | :11:46. | :11:46. |