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:00:17. > :00:20.Welcome To News Watch. Coming Up. The Horror Of Paris Attacks What
:00:21. > :00:23.Challenges Did Bbc News Face In Conveying The Drama And The Facts Of
:00:24. > :00:28.What Happened Last Friday Night? We Be Hearing What Questions You Had
:00:29. > :00:36.About The Coverage And How The Bbc Decided What To Show On Its
:00:37. > :00:41.Bulletins. It was at around 9pm last Friday evening that reports began to
:00:42. > :00:45.emerge of what proved to be the most complex and fast moving operation
:00:46. > :00:50.BBC News has faced this year. Tim Wilcox was presenting on the News
:00:51. > :00:55.Channel at that time. We start now with breaking news. Reports are
:00:56. > :01:01.coming in of an attack, or possibly several attacks in Paris. Reports
:01:02. > :01:07.are talking out -- about a burst of gunfire. With meets to discuss the
:01:08. > :01:12.programme about this coverage is the BBC controller Gavin Allen and we
:01:13. > :01:16.will also be hearing from one of the viewers who's been in touch with us
:01:17. > :01:21.over the past few days, Richard Callan who's in Oxford. Gavin, can
:01:22. > :01:27.you tell us about the priorities that the BBC had any major aftermath
:01:28. > :01:31.of these attacks. It was a remarkably confused picture
:01:32. > :01:34.initially. Obviously, the key priority is to tell people what we
:01:35. > :01:39.know and what has happened to the best of our knowledge at that stage
:01:40. > :01:46.and it was unfolding as each hour and minute went on. But also what we
:01:47. > :01:51.didn't know, because you leak to lots of conclusions. And different
:01:52. > :01:55.attacks. The priority was getting people who were there and getting
:01:56. > :01:59.our own people to Paris and making sure that anyone we did get to Paris
:02:00. > :02:07.was entirely safe, knew the risks and we had back-up. Where the big
:02:08. > :02:10.issues now is fitted. A lot of mobile phone British get uploaded
:02:11. > :02:16.onto social media, and there's also the concern about showing disturbing
:02:17. > :02:21.imagery without warning. How did you deal with this? It's not unique to
:02:22. > :02:30.Paris. So many people witnessed so many events. We need verification
:02:31. > :02:34.and assessing it. When are we broadcasting? Is it appropriate is
:02:35. > :02:40.it required? Does it help us understand what's happening? Lets
:02:41. > :03:01.get some reactions from our viewers. Some of you said, congratulations,
:03:02. > :03:08.who e-mailed. Others had their reservations and here are some
:03:09. > :03:15.selections of your thoughts. Paris is on a knife edge. A city where a
:03:16. > :03:23.silent vigil suddenly transforms into a screaming stampede. There's
:03:24. > :03:26.been no doubting the sense of fear. Extensive portrayal of that fear
:03:27. > :03:33.over many hours of airtime could have had a negative effect. It may
:03:34. > :03:38.be gratifying to terrorists to see how much beer they've done it. Not
:03:39. > :03:42.just directly to the victims, but how much they are impacting on a
:03:43. > :03:47.wider society. That would have given them a great deal of satisfaction is
:03:48. > :03:51.and deal their actions were worthwhile. That's the sort of
:03:52. > :03:57.impact they want to have. This man had other concerns. Events in Paris
:03:58. > :04:02.have been horrific and I don't want in any way to diminish or belittle
:04:03. > :04:12.that. My concern is that there seems to be a morbid curiosity of
:04:13. > :04:15.reporters pursuing witnesses immediately afterwards about their
:04:16. > :04:21.emotions. What must you be going through? I think that could be left
:04:22. > :04:28.for some time afterwards. Is no surprise that the story this size
:04:29. > :04:31.received worldwide airtime, but there were discussions about suicide
:04:32. > :04:58.bombings in Lebanon getting lost. Richard, can you tell us what your
:04:59. > :05:02.concern was the tone of the coverage? I think I agreed with
:05:03. > :05:07.several of the comments there and I'm concerned that the quantity of
:05:08. > :05:11.coverage suggests that Western lives lost our more important the lives
:05:12. > :05:16.lost in other parts of the world. I'm thinking of Pakistan, Nigeria.
:05:17. > :05:20.Places which have greater resonance for some of the communities most at
:05:21. > :05:28.risk of radicalisation in this country, and that amount of coverage
:05:29. > :05:29.can then reinforce ids within those communities that Muslim lives are
:05:30. > :05:36.not valued as much, which then actually increases the risk of
:05:37. > :05:41.radicalisation. So, I think we have to be careful to be proportionate in
:05:42. > :05:53.our reporting of loss of life around the world. Cabin. . It's a difficult
:05:54. > :05:55.balance. You can't conduct your news on different countries. It has TB a
:05:56. > :05:59.judgment based on the impact of any given incident.
:06:00. > :06:07.a knock-on effect. Not just in families in Paris but migration
:06:08. > :06:14.policy, intelligence failures, and a whole host of other areas to
:06:15. > :06:19.explore. It doesn't mean we wouldn't cover other disasters or tragedies.
:06:20. > :06:24.Richard, did you worry about fear and panic and the amount of coverage
:06:25. > :06:29.was given? If very little was said in a Western media is about these
:06:30. > :06:42.events, then I could imagine that the leadership of IES Mack -- Isis
:06:43. > :06:46.would be disappointed. They rely on it to recruit by spreading fear and
:06:47. > :06:48.terror. Absolutely, I think we have to be careful we don't do their job
:06:49. > :06:55.for them. Gavin, lots were concerned about the idea that
:06:56. > :07:01.some of the timing of the coverage focused on there, and there could be
:07:02. > :07:07.seen to fuel the panic. I think at the end of this, an incident in
:07:08. > :07:13.which 120 people are killed in the middle of the capital city, it's not
:07:14. > :07:16.the coverage of that is going to lead to fear increasing, it's the
:07:17. > :07:23.attacks themselves. I think we've got to be responsible restrained in
:07:24. > :07:27.how we tell these stories, how we tell the background, the impact to
:07:28. > :07:32.what happened, and hear eyewitness accounts. It's reflecting the fact
:07:33. > :07:40.that there is fear, not creating fear. Lets get a taste of some of
:07:41. > :07:52.the coverage and different reactions to aspects of it. It's been a week
:07:53. > :07:55.of high emotions and BBC News conveyed the strength of feelings in
:07:56. > :08:09.a number of ways such as this montage showing on Monday morning.
:08:10. > :08:15.Another impact concern me, the use of a montage with some very morbid
:08:16. > :08:22.piano music. It sounded more like a dreadful soap for the real events
:08:23. > :08:27.that had happened. Reporting has been demanding emotionally and
:08:28. > :08:34.sometimes the effect on BBC staff was clear. And the grief and anger
:08:35. > :08:45.of Parisien 's was on display to the regrets. Much more factual reporting
:08:46. > :08:50.a less impact on how it had affected very individuals could have been
:08:51. > :08:55.better. And it would have been kinder to those individuals. I do
:08:56. > :08:59.question as to how much focusing on those raw emotions will of made it
:09:00. > :09:03.worse for them. Richard, can we talk about these views on how emotion was
:09:04. > :09:09.covered in news and sentimentality. We heard that clip from the
:09:10. > :09:14.breakfast News montage. What are your thoughts about this kind of
:09:15. > :09:19.coverage? There's a danger of the invasion of privacy at this time is
:09:20. > :09:23.when you are looking for people's reactions and immediate emotions,
:09:24. > :09:31.and then I think that can easily move on to making it into a drama,
:09:32. > :09:38.and something that becomes, for some people, entertainment. It becomes
:09:39. > :09:42.gripping. They want to watch it. It looks a little bit like some of the
:09:43. > :09:49.dramas we might watch on television anyway. And I think we need to avoid
:09:50. > :09:54.sensationalising, or making news such as this into an appealing drama
:09:55. > :10:00.that people are going to have some sort of morbid interest in. Morbid
:10:01. > :10:08.interest. That music blog overlays images! I take the points about it
:10:09. > :10:14.becomes entertaining or drama. I think it was compelling, and I don't
:10:15. > :10:21.think it is necessarily a bad thing that is compelling. It's the chance
:10:22. > :10:29.to reflect on individuals. The danger is of that we talk of
:10:30. > :10:32.geopolitics, instead of individuals who have been injured or killed. By
:10:33. > :10:38.speaking to people who are there at the same, or families of those who
:10:39. > :10:43.have died, I think you get a greater picture of the sense of the tragedy,
:10:44. > :10:49.actually. Because it has impacted on real, individual people. Lex end
:10:50. > :10:55.with one will clip featuring a letter written by the husband of one
:10:56. > :10:59.of the victims. He read out his letter to a BBC camera on Wednesday
:11:00. > :11:07.leading to a large response on Twitter. On Friday night you stole
:11:08. > :11:13.away the life of a acceptable being. The love of my life, the mother of
:11:14. > :11:19.my son. Of course, I am devastated with grief, I give you that tidy
:11:20. > :11:27.victory, but it will be a short-term grief. I know we will join us every
:11:28. > :11:33.day. And I will find her a game in Paradise a free souls which you will
:11:34. > :11:41.never have access to. -- again. That's all we have time for. Do call
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