:00:00. > :00:08.at ten o'clock a full round-up of the day 's news. But first,
:00:09. > :00:18.Coming up on the programme, insensitive and inadequate?
:00:19. > :00:20.Reviewers criticise coverage of last Sunday's bomb attack in Lahore.
:00:21. > :00:22.And why news headlines about Sunday's
:00:23. > :00:24.University boat races were at odds with the gender equality
:00:25. > :00:35.On Easter Sunday more than 70 people were killed by a suicide bomb
:00:36. > :00:45.of the hospitals where the victims had been taken to.
:00:46. > :00:47.As the casualties arrived at the city's main
:00:48. > :00:53.hospitals, so, too, did relatives desperate for news.
:00:54. > :01:00.She had lost her two daughters in the blast.
:01:01. > :01:02.My two girls were in the park, she says.
:01:03. > :01:37.That brought this response from Peter Hudson in Herefordshire.
:01:38. > :01:54.We asked BBC News for a response to that criticism and they told us...
:01:55. > :01:56.Although we are aware of the risk of offending some people again,
:01:57. > :01:59.we decided to show that clip to demonstrate what was being
:02:00. > :02:04.We're now going to show a piece to camera first
:02:05. > :02:06.broadcast on Monday over which the charge of insensitivity
:02:07. > :02:11.The body of the 16-year-old has just been brought
:02:12. > :02:16.outside his family home for final prayers and goodbyes.
:02:17. > :02:19.He is just one victim among the dozens killed in yesterday's
:02:20. > :02:21.blast and many families across Lahore will be mourning
:02:22. > :02:29.A number of viewers objected to that on webcam.
:02:30. > :02:36.Why would you stand less than three foot away from a teenager's Coffin
:02:37. > :02:44.Would you do that in this country, in England?
:02:45. > :02:54.I think the same could have been achieved had
:02:55. > :02:57.the reporter been further away and got more the picture.
:02:58. > :02:59.We also asked BBC News about that point and they
:03:00. > :03:21.Joining us now to make a different point about the BBC's
:03:22. > :03:24.coverage of those bombings in Lahore is the word Jeff Richmond
:03:25. > :03:32.Can you tell us what you are concerned about with
:03:33. > :03:35.My concern was it was not about the Lahore coverage,
:03:36. > :03:44.So much as the fact that the events of a week
:03:45. > :03:48.earlier approximately in Brussels received such huge coverage
:03:49. > :03:55.and there were a lot of similarities between the two events.
:03:56. > :03:57.They both occurred in foreign countries, the loss of life
:03:58. > :04:04.in Lahore was almost twice that of the loss of life in Brussels
:04:05. > :04:06.but it received a tiny fraction of the coverage.
:04:07. > :04:09.And I began to wonder why on earth this
:04:10. > :04:17.Let me read you what the BBC have told us.
:04:18. > :04:26.This is a statement they have given in response to your
:04:27. > :04:49.I suppose the first thing is that it was the lead story
:04:50. > :04:52.after it broke through the rest of the evening and the whole
:04:53. > :04:54.of the next day, but also that Brussels is closer
:04:55. > :04:56.and there is a more obvious concern for people
:04:57. > :05:02.I accept that, I still think it was entirely out of proportion
:05:03. > :05:06.and to say that something is the lead story when the one I am
:05:07. > :05:11.drawing a comparison with was not only the lead story,
:05:12. > :05:13.but a saturation story, is slightly missing the point,
:05:14. > :05:21.The point about distance is, frankly, it relevant.
:05:22. > :05:24.The BBC on an entirely different topic have found
:05:25. > :05:31.themselves very ready to send many people crisscrossing America
:05:32. > :05:35.if there is even the lsightest suggestion that Donald
:05:36. > :05:38.I don't think the geographic distance has
:05:39. > :05:44.I think it is a case of further away and a bit more
:05:45. > :05:49.And I ask what you would expect to see if the BBC
:05:50. > :05:57.I would imagine the Pakistani police had suspects in mind,
:05:58. > :06:04.I seem to recall seeing they had arrested some 200
:06:05. > :06:14.We wouldn't expect the same sort of have you seen this man type
:06:15. > :06:18.coverage as we got for our friend with the trolley and the hat.
:06:19. > :06:30.Because that would be unrealistic as an
:06:31. > :06:33.expectation if they got 200 or 300 people they are looking out.
:06:34. > :06:35.But there was much more that could...
:06:36. > :06:37.It left, I have to say, a slightly unpleasant taste
:06:38. > :06:39.the whole coverage throughout that week to me.
:06:40. > :06:43.It seemed, well, further away and much
:06:44. > :06:46.more foreign than that other foreign country called Belgium.
:06:47. > :07:11.On Sunday we were in the city centre as police dispersed far right
:07:12. > :07:13.protesters who were caught on camera acting aggressively
:07:14. > :07:15.Some protesters were confronting Muslim women paying
:07:16. > :07:31.Officers here are overstretched already by the terror alerts.
:07:32. > :07:33.The riot squad move in and there were
:07:34. > :07:40.One word used their attracted the attention of Robert
:07:41. > :08:08.On Thursday, the death of Ronnie Corbett was extensively
:08:09. > :08:16.reported on BBC News but less so, the death of the acclaimed British
:08:17. > :08:23.Several viewers criticised the lack of any mention
:08:24. > :08:42.Sunday saw the boat race, or should I say, boat races,
:08:43. > :08:44.the Oxford and Cambridge University's women's
:08:45. > :08:47.crew compete on the same stretch of the Thames on the same day.
:08:48. > :08:48.The headline on BBC One's early evening
:08:49. > :08:50.news that day seemed to forget about the latter.
:08:51. > :08:53.And Cambridge make it look easy, comfortably beating
:08:54. > :09:15.Roz was one of those unimpressed saying
:09:16. > :09:38.And Anna noticed the same permission elsewhere in the BBC's output.
:09:39. > :09:40.It seems TV news editors took notice of the complaints
:09:41. > :09:42.because by the News at ten the headlines had
:09:43. > :09:46.Cambridge make it look easy completely beating Oxford
:09:47. > :09:49.in the men's boat race, but it is Oxford's women
:09:50. > :10:01.Perhaps a sign that an error had been spotted and corrected.
:10:02. > :10:03.Finally, sticking between the relationship between the sexes,
:10:04. > :10:06.you may remember that a couple of weeks ago we raised the thorny
:10:07. > :10:11.side of the screen when there is one male and one female presenter.
:10:12. > :10:12.This followed a controversy over seating
:10:13. > :10:14.arrangements on Breakfast when new presenter Dan
:10:15. > :10:17.Walker sits sits on the sofa on the right side of the more
:10:18. > :10:28.experienced Louise Minchin, following a gender
:10:29. > :10:30.pattern set by almost every television programme, bue why?
:10:31. > :10:49.Michael was one of several viewers giving us
:10:50. > :10:51.Christine thought it reflected a sexist power
:10:52. > :11:15.But Bonnie McIntosh was less concerned...
:11:16. > :11:28.Let's leave the last word to another viewer...
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:11:48. > :11:58.That is all from us, we'll be back next week.