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are the headlines from BBC News. Now, at ten o'clock, Sophie ray | :00:00. | :00:11. | |
Sophie Waworth, but it is time for Newswatch. | :00:12. | :00:17. | |
Hello and welcome to NewsWatch with me, Samira Ahmed. Don't go out in | :00:18. | :00:21. | |
Storm Imogen, the authorities said, unless necessary, so how responsible | :00:22. | :00:26. | |
was this BBC reporter's appearance on the sea-front? Who has been | :00:27. | :00:32. | |
presented in a more favourable light over a dispute in a new contract, | :00:33. | :00:35. | |
the junior doctors or the Government? | :00:36. | :00:40. | |
Extreme weather, it makes the headlines and it regularly gets | :00:41. | :00:45. | |
NewsWatchers attention too. The week started with reports of powerful | :00:46. | :00:49. | |
winds and heavy rain hitting parts of Southern England and Wales. Not | :00:50. | :00:53. | |
for the first time, BBC News sent cameras and reporters out into the | :00:54. | :00:58. | |
midst of the storm, following in a tradition that spawned hundreds of | :00:59. | :01:03. | |
clips on YouTube. I haven't seen a lot of debris recently, but it was a | :01:04. | :01:11. | |
couple of hours ago that... With more dramatic weather events | :01:12. | :01:17. | |
across the world, has come more dramatic weather broadcasting. Sorry | :01:18. | :01:20. | |
about that. Wow, that was a heck of a gust. It is actually very | :01:21. | :01:24. | |
dangerous because you have the added bonus of frostbite. The American | :01:25. | :01:27. | |
networks and weather channels lead the field here with some presenters | :01:28. | :01:33. | |
apparently competing to put themselves in the most hazardous | :01:34. | :01:40. | |
situations. No, we're fine. BBC reporters have been known to put | :01:41. | :01:44. | |
themselves in the thick of it with appearances in the sea-front and | :01:45. | :01:50. | |
wading through the flooding Thames attracting the ire of NewsWatch | :01:51. | :01:56. | |
viewers two years ago who felt the coverage was dangerous and | :01:57. | :01:59. | |
irresponsible. One experienced news correspondent finds himself facing | :02:00. | :02:03. | |
the storm of complaints after a live appearance on Monday's news at one. | :02:04. | :02:09. | |
Let's join Duncan ken he had yes. Duncan, conditions look pretty wild | :02:10. | :02:14. | |
where you are. That's a bit of an under statement really. It is hard | :02:15. | :02:18. | |
to stand up here such are the force of the winds here. We reckon they | :02:19. | :02:25. | |
are coming in at 90mph gusts across the western approaches. More of this | :02:26. | :02:29. | |
is to come for the next few hours and the advice is to baton down the | :02:30. | :02:34. | |
hatches as the storm goes through. Don't come out and try and fight it | :02:35. | :02:38. | |
or travel if you have to. Jane Elliot contacted us following that | :02:39. | :02:41. | |
broadcast. Here is the telephone message she left us. | :02:42. | :02:46. | |
We were watching the reports on Storm Imogen on the BBC lunch time | :02:47. | :02:50. | |
news on Monday and couldn't believe that a crazy reporter was standing | :02:51. | :02:55. | |
just a few feet away from a raging sea whilst telling us how high and | :02:56. | :03:00. | |
dangerous the waves were and not to venture out unless really necessary. | :03:01. | :03:04. | |
He could easily have been swept away. This surely is most | :03:05. | :03:08. | |
irresponsible reporting by the BBC. An exert from the live appearance by | :03:09. | :03:14. | |
Duncan Kennedy featured later on the six and ten o'clock bulletins and | :03:15. | :03:19. | |
the fear for some, despite repeating the authority's warning, not to go | :03:20. | :03:24. | |
out unless necessary, the report sent the opposite message. There was | :03:25. | :03:27. | |
concern from the coastguard when a group of schoolchildren were spotted | :03:28. | :03:31. | |
on the beach as heavy winds and choppy waves swept in. In Cornwall | :03:32. | :03:36. | |
storm chasers were deluged with water, a car was almost submerged by | :03:37. | :03:42. | |
massive waves and a man taking photographs from the harbour was | :03:43. | :03:47. | |
brought to his knees so could those near disasters been encouraged by | :03:48. | :03:51. | |
the BBC and was a camera and reporter really necessary? No, | :03:52. | :03:56. | |
thought Christopher Arnold. This is really irspble and quite frankly | :03:57. | :04:00. | |
unnecessary. We don't need to see how bad the sea is. We know how bad | :04:01. | :04:06. | |
it is. So putting your correspondents at any sort of risk | :04:07. | :04:13. | |
is quite frankly unbelievably silly. Well, to talk this through, I'm | :04:14. | :04:19. | |
joined by UK News Editor for BBC News. It looked genuinely hazardous, | :04:20. | :04:27. | |
are you sure that Duncan Kennedy and the crew were safe? He was safe. He | :04:28. | :04:33. | |
was there with an experienced producer who lived by the sea for 20 | :04:34. | :04:37. | |
years and covered, snow, floods, harsh weather. They spend a lot of | :04:38. | :04:41. | |
time risk assessing these situations. I think they spent of a | :04:42. | :04:47. | |
an hour to an hour ahead of doing the broadcast to check everything | :04:48. | :04:50. | |
was OK. What you don't see was there was about five meters of steps | :04:51. | :04:54. | |
beyond that wall. So there was no danger of waves hitting Duncan. The | :04:55. | :04:58. | |
water you could see was spray coming up from the steps. So, we take the | :04:59. | :05:03. | |
safety of our correspondents, our reporters, our producers seriously. | :05:04. | :05:06. | |
We wouldn't put them into a dangerous situation. I wonder if | :05:07. | :05:10. | |
more of that information needed to be spelt out if you're going to do | :05:11. | :05:14. | |
that live because it didn't look like there was much distance and it | :05:15. | :05:18. | |
gave a sense that the drama of the picture was more important than the | :05:19. | :05:21. | |
safety, because you could have shot from further away and people would | :05:22. | :05:24. | |
have been reassured that the reporter was clearly much further | :05:25. | :05:27. | |
away from the water? Sure. I understand that viewers are | :05:28. | :05:30. | |
concerned and want to know that our people are safe and they have | :05:31. | :05:34. | |
concerns about where we shoot lives and is it really necessary to be in | :05:35. | :05:38. | |
those situations? I think in this case, you know, it really did | :05:39. | :05:41. | |
illustrate the strength of the winds which was a big story that day. A | :05:42. | :05:45. | |
great interest to our audience. We know they are interested in the | :05:46. | :05:48. | |
weather and what Duncan's live did was really show how strong the winds | :05:49. | :05:51. | |
were and that was the intention and I can assure viewers that he was | :05:52. | :05:56. | |
safe. You see, the advice is not to go out unless absolutely necessary, | :05:57. | :06:00. | |
why is it all right for him to go out when no one else is supposed to? | :06:01. | :06:05. | |
It sends out the wrong message? Well, they have done a lot of risk | :06:06. | :06:09. | |
assessment and I have got great trust in my producer and Duncan who | :06:10. | :06:12. | |
are experienced. Look, we gave all the warnings. We were very clear | :06:13. | :06:17. | |
that people shouldn't go out. We took advice from the Met Office and | :06:18. | :06:20. | |
from the relevant authorities. Why was it all right for the reporter to | :06:21. | :06:25. | |
be out if everyone isn't supposed to be? Well, Duncan was safe. He was | :06:26. | :06:31. | |
out there to illustrate the strength of the winds which I think he did, | :06:32. | :06:35. | |
the package included clips of the dangers posed, by the winds and | :06:36. | :06:41. | |
Duncan himself spoke about the dangers posed by the winds. Zl There | :06:42. | :06:47. | |
were so many incidents of the public with cameras trying to film the | :06:48. | :06:50. | |
wind. You are giving the message that you can make a judgement and | :06:51. | :06:55. | |
get great pictures that the BBC said you have got to see? I don't think | :06:56. | :06:58. | |
there was any sense in which Duncan was encouraging people to go out. | :06:59. | :07:03. | |
Well, the BBC was, by giving that coverage? No, I don't think. I think | :07:04. | :07:07. | |
Duncan was clear in his messages which he said, don't go out, baton | :07:08. | :07:11. | |
down the hatches, stay safe. He was safe. We took a lot of precautions | :07:12. | :07:15. | |
to make sure he was safe. And as I've said to you, even the people | :07:16. | :07:19. | |
who we interviewed later on, they were safe as well. One thing that | :07:20. | :07:23. | |
struck me watching it, on the one o'clock, he was live. And that's | :07:24. | :07:27. | |
what added to part of the viewer concern because you didn't know | :07:28. | :07:30. | |
whether something might happen and he could actually be injured before | :07:31. | :07:34. | |
our eyes. Wouldn't it have been more responsible to have filmed that and | :07:35. | :07:38. | |
put it into an edited package like you did later, not to have done it | :07:39. | :07:42. | |
live? Well, I mean, I think again, it was to illustrate the strength of | :07:43. | :07:46. | |
the winds... That's the point, but to have done it as a pre-recorded | :07:47. | :07:50. | |
item would have made it clear, yes, it was fine and it was all safe, | :07:51. | :07:54. | |
wouldn't that be a possible compromise? We showed it live | :07:55. | :07:58. | |
because we really wanted to illustrate at that point the | :07:59. | :08:01. | |
strength of those winds and Duncan did that very well. Duncan is a very | :08:02. | :08:04. | |
experienced correspondent and he knows what he is doing. I've come on | :08:05. | :08:07. | |
here because I understand viewers were concerned and I appreciate | :08:08. | :08:12. | |
that. I'm coming on here to reassure them that we take the safety of our | :08:13. | :08:15. | |
people seriously and we spent a lot of time assessing this situation and | :08:16. | :08:20. | |
making sure it was safe. In the en, given that this is not the first | :08:21. | :08:23. | |
conversation we have had on NewsWatch about this reporting, | :08:24. | :08:26. | |
viewers might say is anything going to be different? Are you going to | :08:27. | :08:29. | |
re-think these situations, otherwise there is a fear, it is only when | :08:30. | :08:33. | |
someone is injured that the BBC might re-think or compared to two | :08:34. | :08:36. | |
years ago, for example, is it already being as far as you are | :08:37. | :08:41. | |
aware rethinking each year about how you approach these stories? We think | :08:42. | :08:45. | |
about the safety of our people. They have to report from around the world | :08:46. | :08:48. | |
in potentially dangerous situations, but if it is not safe, we won't put | :08:49. | :08:52. | |
them in there and that's not changed and when we get feedback from | :08:53. | :08:56. | |
viewers, of course, we take it on board and that's why I have come on | :08:57. | :09:00. | |
here to explain Duncan was safe. Thank you very much. | :09:01. | :09:07. | |
We are keen to hear your thoughts on any aspect of BBC News. Stay tuned | :09:08. | :09:12. | |
for details of how to contact us. More of your reactions to what you | :09:13. | :09:16. | |
have seen over the past few days. Starting with the week's big story. | :09:17. | :09:20. | |
The dispute over the proposed new contract for junior doctors. After | :09:21. | :09:23. | |
Wednesday's strike and Thursday's announcement by the Government that | :09:24. | :09:26. | |
it would be imposing the new contract, passions are still running | :09:27. | :09:31. | |
high on both sides, both about the issue it's he have and the -- itself | :09:32. | :09:37. | |
and David Kenny: On the other side of the argument, | :09:38. | :10:00. | |
scores of viewers this week alleged a bias in the other direction. Here | :10:01. | :10:05. | |
is Sue Robson writing: Finally, the BBC News Channel along | :10:06. | :10:38. | |
with other 24 hour channels is keen to tell us when it has breaking | :10:39. | :10:42. | |
news. But what developments are considered significant and newsy | :10:43. | :10:46. | |
enough to qualify for that status? Last week the announcement that Matt | :10:47. | :10:55. | |
LeBlanc was going to be one of the present irs of Top Gear prompted a | :10:56. | :11:03. | |
breaking news alert. Scientists are claiming a stunning | :11:04. | :11:07. | |
discovery in their quest to fully understand the origins of the | :11:08. | :11:10. | |
universe. They have detected evidence of so-called gravitational | :11:11. | :11:15. | |
waves. Ripples in the fabric of space. If this was was a newspaper, | :11:16. | :11:21. | |
you would be hearing cries of, "Hold the front page." David Macmillan | :11:22. | :11:25. | |
said: But, Ned BH was more sceptical. | :11:26. | :11:46. | |
Do let us know if you think BBC News lives up to its own hype. You can | :11:47. | :11:55. | |
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website: That's all from us. We will be back | :12:09. | :12:13. | |
to hear your thoughts about BBC News coverage again next week. | :12:14. | :12:14. |