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Hello and welcome to Newswatch with me, Samira Ahmed.

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Awards were being given out in Hollywood on Sunday night, but the

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BBC's Oscar coverage received criticism from some viewers. And how

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did this hoax to get on the Victoria Derbyshire show with a tale of

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misbehaviour on a flighty cleaned the travelling on? -- flight he

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claimed to be. It was lights, camera and action on

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Monday morning as the public work of the details of the 88 Academy Awards

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ceremony, held the night before in Los Angeles. And the Oscar goes

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to... Breakfast featured several appearances from our entertainment

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correspondent in Hollywood and a variety of guests at a studio

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discussion back home. We will come back to the films in a moment. The

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news channel continued the focused, with the awards leading that

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bulletin. Why was the first six minutes dedicated to the very

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shallow reporting of the Oscars? They should be reported but not as

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head of the news! At 9:30am there was a half-hour Oscars special, with

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discussion of the films and the frocks. There is much more on the

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BBC News website about all of that, the fashion, the films, the winners

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and the losers. There was indeed much more about all of that on the

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BBC News website and the BBC News Channel and BBC News Channel and BBC

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One bulletins continued to feature the subject of the day. Was all this

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attention justified? Opinion was divided, with one writing:

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But that was a minority view among those who contacted us. More typical

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was this: so what place with the Oscars or any

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entertainment story have? And in the lead up, should editors listen

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Donald -- think about this coverage, when he argued that:

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Our overseas, on my operations editor joins me now. There are

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claims of too much soft news at the expense of this kind of core mission

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of use. A lot of our viewers complained to Newswatch this week,

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feeling the same about seeing the Oscars coverage. I think it is fair

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to say that the Oscars is not in that part of the debate. It is one

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of the biggest entertainment stories of the year. It attracts a lot of

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attention and has people talking here and around the world and this

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year it was a very strong story. Successful Leonardo DiCaprio after

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many years. And also the diversity debate, which wasn't played out on

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the fringes of the Oscars but on the very floor of the reader, with Chris

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Roc making so many comments. -- of the arena, with Chric Rock. So it

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was a strong story and we had it at different times through the day. You

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focused on the morning, where we know there was a big audience

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interest in finding out what happened. So the web story we wrote

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about that was the most read news story on the site in a month of

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February around the world. So at that point there was a lot of

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prominence for the Oscars because we were bringing people up to speed

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about a story that clearly people were interested in. As the day

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progressed it moved down the running order is. At the 1pm and 6pm news

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bulletins it was the end items. So we did approach it in different

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ways, but we did that partly because of the different ways people consume

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the news. In terms of the amount of airtime, especially the run-up to

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it, people felt there was a lot of standing around, looking at a red

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carpet and commenting on peoples dresses. Is that the kind of news

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the BBC News Channel should be doing? I think if they're talking

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about it in the morning, there was a short period in the morning where

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stars are working the red carpet before and some of that afterwards,

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but that's where we got the fantastic interview with one of

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Britain's latest actors. That was the breaking news, reaction element.

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Actually things finished pretty quickly. We did our Oscars special

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at 9:30am on BBC News Because that was a good time to wrap it up. We

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moved on during the day to more head on issues of diversity and some of

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the more serious stories to come out of the event. The morning after it

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is very big in Breakfast news. 9am, when the news channel bulletin: gets

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going, it is the first six minutes. Even there was the half-hour special

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to come, can you see why viewers thought, why did they need to be six

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minutes at the top of the 9am bulletin as well? That was the only

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our in the hole daywear the Oscars was believed story on the news

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channel during the day. -- only time in the whole day wear. The news

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channel went on to lead with the trouble on the Greece-Macedonia

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border. We knew that was the pick point where people wanted to catch

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up on the Oscar story and we did it very quickly and to be honest at the

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same length we do any lead story. A video report and a live

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correspondent. I don't think it was out of kilter. We just wanted to

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allow people to catch up on the news at that point and then they got

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other stories before we came back to it at half past nine. Thanks so

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much. Let us know your thoughts on the

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role of entertainment stories, or on any aspect of BBC News. Details of

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how to contact us at the end of the programme.

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Before that, two stories early in the week dealt with migrants in

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different parts of Europe and both attracted the attention of Newswatch

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viewers. Monday's News at ten the AMP reported on a confrontation

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between police and migrants between the border at Greece and Macedonia

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and before that clashes as police moved into the camp at Calais.

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What was meant to be a gentle addiction through encouragement and

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information became our blood exchange of tear gas and frocks,

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hurled at police. -- rocks. Then the battle was under way again. A second

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fire in a place someone yesterday called time. Water cannon brought in

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not for the fire but for the arsonists and then tear gas for

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anyone still standing nearby. This is the view from the Macedonian

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side. A border guard fires teargas directly at the migrants. On the

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other side of the fence, the man in the front of the picture in the blue

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jacket is hit by that canister. There's panic as the toxic gas

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starts spreading. A boy staggers from the crush retching. Others

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collapse with their eyes and lungs burning. Today, on the European

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border, children were tear gassed. Merlin from Gloucester wrote in

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about that last piece: Brenda Taylor was more worried about

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the images. And we received this telephone

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message. I was watching the news on the 29th of February to see the

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coverage of the clearance of the camps in France. It almost seemed

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like it was only one side. It was criticising the police for the way

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they acted, firing tear gas, it just seemed like it was about the police

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or the time but they didn't go on about the other side. The way they

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were acting, The Rolling Stones. If you are going to report the news,

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don't report the buyers. -- throwing stones. We put that to BBC News and

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they told us: finally, the strange tale of the

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stag party, Ryanair flight and the prankster. Last week the flight was

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after a group of 12 men became drunk, rowdy and violence, with

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passengers saying one of them exposed himself. BBC News reported

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the story and invited anyone on the plane to come forward with

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information. One man did so and after a telephone conversation with

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the journalist was invited on to the Victoria Derbyshire show to describe

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what happened. It was a crazy flight. They were drunk from the get

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go. About 5-10 minutes into the flight when we were in the air one

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of these stag members stalled the trousers. So one of them was exposed

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and he stood up and he was being boisterous, he was naked from the

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waist down. The problem, Daria Stevas later revealed that he had

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not been on the plane and had made up his entire testimony as a hoax.

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-- Darius Davis. On a blog, the man, who was a comedian, said at no point

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did you have to provide proof that he was on the flight, expressing

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surprise that lazy journalism allowed him on the BBC News. A

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Twitter user posted this: For its part, the BBC had this to

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say. Many thanks to all of those who

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contributed to the programme this week.

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If you want to share your opinions on BBC News and current affairs,

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or appear on the programme, you can call us, or e-mail.

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You can post your thoughts on Twitter, and do have a look at the

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Join us again next week. The buyer. -- goodbyes.

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Snow has been causing issues out and about and it still will do

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Ice a big concern however where we've had showers,

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even if they haven't been of snow, things are freezing over there now.

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