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Hello, and welcome to Newswatch. On this week 's programme, has BBC | :00:11. | :00:19. | |
reporting of Ashya King been fair to his parents, or intrusive and | :00:20. | :00:26. | |
excessive? Alex Salminen blames a metropolitan media for unfair | :00:27. | :00:30. | |
coverage of the referendum debate. Have the BBC been guilty of this? | :00:31. | :00:35. | |
And what is more important, a live broadcast from the trade | :00:36. | :00:46. | |
Congress, or breaking news of a royal pregnancy? Sometimes a story | :00:47. | :00:49. | |
can seem very clear when it is first reported, and then be transformed as | :00:50. | :00:54. | |
new information emerges. The case of fight your brain tumour patient | :00:55. | :00:59. | |
Ashya King is such a story and has been borrowed through the British | :01:00. | :01:03. | |
media, in June `` including on the BBC `` five`year`old. He is now | :01:04. | :01:06. | |
being treated in Prague, but his name hit the headlines two weeks | :01:07. | :01:11. | |
ago. It started at 2pm yesterday, when he was taken from the hospital | :01:12. | :01:16. | |
by his parents. At 4pm, his whole family travel to Portsmouth weather | :01:17. | :01:19. | |
got on a ferry, and at 8pm, six seemed to many to be a simple but | :01:20. | :01:31. | |
tragic tale, with Mr and Mrs King being the villains. To some, that is | :01:32. | :01:36. | |
how the BBC portrayed it at first. One viewer said: | :01:37. | :01:45. | |
In the past fortnight, events have moved on significantly. Ashya King | :01:46. | :02:33. | |
is undergoing scans this week at a clinic in Prague. In advance of | :02:34. | :02:37. | |
plans proton beam treatments `` planned. Our correspondent reported | :02:38. | :02:44. | |
from Prague. It has been a long Jennifer Ashya King and his family. | :02:45. | :02:48. | |
Is unclear who will pay for his treatment, but the therapy they | :02:49. | :02:53. | |
fought desperately for is expected to start next week. Such coverage | :02:54. | :02:57. | |
led to further complaints, such as this e`mail from one view on Monday | :02:58. | :03:02. | |
morning. `` viewer. | :03:03. | :03:18. | |
Another viewer greed, writing: `` agreed. | :03:19. | :04:02. | |
The head of the BBC newsroom is Mary Hockaday who joins me now. Some | :04:03. | :04:08. | |
viewers felt that the early coverage implied that the parents were | :04:09. | :04:11. | |
guilty, because of the prominence of what the authorities were saying, | :04:12. | :04:15. | |
and those photographs released. And the talk of arrest warrants. Should | :04:16. | :04:20. | |
the BBC have done more to question the source and reliability of what | :04:21. | :04:23. | |
authorities were claiming from `` claiming? At any face value, is the | :04:24. | :04:30. | |
important thing to say. It's a service to the community, an | :04:31. | :04:34. | |
announcement from police and the hospital, the possibility of a | :04:35. | :04:38. | |
missing child. At that stage, it feels an important and significant | :04:39. | :04:41. | |
thing said by the authorities and the right thing is to draw attention | :04:42. | :04:46. | |
to it. Quickly, the story moved on, as did our coverage. That happened | :04:47. | :04:51. | |
in a number of ways. One of the things was noticeable `` notable and | :04:52. | :04:56. | |
unusual about the story is how the family quickly communicated | :04:57. | :04:59. | |
themselves, partly by putting a video on YouTube, a new phenomenon | :05:00. | :05:04. | |
that became part of how the story fadeout. When it became clear that | :05:05. | :05:08. | |
the family were going to be allowed to take Ashya King to Prague, | :05:09. | :05:12. | |
viewers were concerned that we should have left them alone, and | :05:13. | :05:16. | |
there were cameras everywhere outside their home and both | :05:17. | :05:20. | |
hospitals. Was it intrusive? There's this idea that it turned into a mini | :05:21. | :05:26. | |
soap opera. The family themselves were very happy to, and in fact | :05:27. | :05:32. | |
choosing, to communicate to us and other media. It wasn't asked, if you | :05:33. | :05:37. | |
like, pressuring them. For our audiences, and many of our audiences | :05:38. | :05:44. | |
were very engaged in the story. They wanted to know what happened next. | :05:45. | :05:49. | |
That is our fundamental job, what happens next. It seemed to me, and I | :05:50. | :05:53. | |
think this is absolutely right, if you like, we followed that stage of | :05:54. | :05:57. | |
the story through to Prague. All along, as well as reporting the core | :05:58. | :06:02. | |
elements of the story, we attended to the many issues it threw up. It | :06:03. | :06:07. | |
really did raise many questions. A lot of them about family 's rights, | :06:08. | :06:13. | |
with care and hospitals, a lot of issues around costs and choices of | :06:14. | :06:18. | |
treatment in hospitals. Issues around the European arrest warrant, | :06:19. | :06:22. | |
and what this is. A lot of questions about proton beam therapy itself and | :06:23. | :06:26. | |
other kinds of treatments for tumours and so on, with some really | :06:27. | :06:31. | |
interesting testimony from other families with experience of all of | :06:32. | :06:35. | |
this. For us, reporting the story and airing the issues, hearing from | :06:36. | :06:38. | |
all sides, that's the job we were doing. Thank you for coming in. | :06:39. | :06:47. | |
Elsewhere this week, the referendum campaign in Scotland has been | :06:48. | :06:50. | |
hotting up in advance of Thursday 's vote, in next week 's programme we | :06:51. | :06:54. | |
will be examining the role the BBC has played in coverage and `` | :06:55. | :06:58. | |
covering the campaign and the role it has after the poll. The | :06:59. | :07:01. | |
corporation has already been under fire this week for reporting of the | :07:02. | :07:06. | |
independence issue. Firstly, after this pronouncement by the Royal | :07:07. | :07:10. | |
correspondent Nicholas Witchell, on Tuesdays BBC One bulletin. The Queen | :07:11. | :07:13. | |
will accept the referendum result, whatever it is. That is her duty as | :07:14. | :07:18. | |
a constitutional monarch. But nobody should be in any doubt, any breakup | :07:19. | :07:22. | |
of the United Kingdom would be a matter of deep and private sadness | :07:23. | :07:27. | |
to her. One viewer 's comments said: | :07:28. | :07:36. | |
Alex Salmond has been at the heart of much of this week 's news | :07:37. | :07:42. | |
output, demanding that the BBC should co`operate in an enquiry into | :07:43. | :07:46. | |
the leaking of RBS 's plan to move its registered office to London, if | :07:47. | :07:50. | |
there is a yes vote. The Minister was `` the first Minister was | :07:51. | :07:57. | |
questioned by Nick Robinson this week. Should a Scottish voter | :07:58. | :08:02. | |
believe you, a politician, against men who are responsible the billions | :08:03. | :08:06. | |
of pounds of profit. He didn't answer, but he attacked the | :08:07. | :08:11. | |
reporting of those in what he called the metropolitan media. Who could he | :08:12. | :08:16. | |
mean by the metropolitan media? Did Alex Salmond really not answer Nick | :08:17. | :08:21. | |
Robinson 's question? One viewer said the following: | :08:22. | :08:37. | |
Earlier on Thursday, the news channels broadcasting live a speech | :08:38. | :08:42. | |
from Alex Salmond, and at the same time something else was going on on | :08:43. | :08:46. | |
the other side of the world. For the first time ever, Scots now | :08:47. | :08:51. | |
believe that this can happen, and indeed this will happen. Back to the | :08:52. | :08:59. | |
judge giving her verdict in the murder case of Oscar Pistorius, she | :09:00. | :09:03. | |
has said the state has not proved beyond reasonable doubt that he is | :09:04. | :09:07. | |
guilty of premeditated murder. This was the response of one viewer. | :09:08. | :09:33. | |
Cutting away from showing a live event, also resulted in our final | :09:34. | :09:41. | |
comment this week. Here's Frances O'Grady, telling the TUC conference | :09:42. | :09:45. | |
on Monday morning what was wrong with the society we live in. Where | :09:46. | :09:52. | |
the blame is heaped on the most vulnerable, migrants, claimants, | :09:53. | :09:56. | |
whether powerful and privileged set pretty. `` where the. Breaking news | :09:57. | :10:06. | |
now, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge are pleased to announce | :10:07. | :10:10. | |
that the Duchess of Cambridge is expecting their second child. By the | :10:11. | :10:15. | |
time the news channel had finished discussing the royal pregnancy, | :10:16. | :10:18. | |
Frances O'Grady 's speech had finished. Mary Pearson, president of | :10:19. | :10:21. | |
the Birmingham trades union Council, was watching. Here is her | :10:22. | :10:27. | |
reaction. We could have waited 20 minutes to learn about the pregnancy | :10:28. | :10:31. | |
of the Duchess of Cambridge. I couldn't see that it was a matter of | :10:32. | :10:36. | |
national importance, it `` that it couldn't wait 20 minutes. Here is | :10:37. | :10:41. | |
the leader of over 5 million workers in the trade union movement, she was | :10:42. | :10:47. | |
cut off and allowed two minutes 25 seconds. It is crazy. It seems so | :10:48. | :10:53. | |
unbalanced and so unfair. Thank you to Mary Pearson and all of those who | :10:54. | :10:57. | |
sent us the comments this week. If you want to share your opinions, or | :10:58. | :11:01. | |
even appear on the programme, get in touch with us. | :11:02. | :11:15. | |
That is all from us, we will be back to hear your thoughts on the | :11:16. | :11:21. | |
coverage of the Scottish referendum and other topics next week. Goodbye. | :11:22. | :11:31. | |
It is looking fine overnight, there will be varied amounts of cloud, | :11:32. | :11:35. | |
where we get clear skies there will be mist and fog developing, | :11:36. | :11:39. | |
especially in northern and western areas. We have cloud, and a bit less | :11:40. | :11:45. | |
cold. Towns and cities are looking at temperatures not falling below 12 | :11:46. | :11:48. | |
degrees, and winds remain light. | :11:49. | :11:50. |