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a recruit was found dead in barracks in 1995. No attempt yen Fiona Bruce | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
will be here with a full round-up of the news, but first it is Newswatch. | :00:00. | :00:08. | |
Coming up: Are you confused, bored or irritated by | :00:09. | :00:13. | |
Why haven't BBC News reported more about allegations of electoral | :00:14. | :00:21. | |
irregularities involving members of the Conservative Party at last | :00:22. | :00:23. | |
And, the sound of the BBC's political editor being hissed | :00:24. | :00:36. | |
We hear some reaction to that response. | :00:37. | :00:44. | |
Less than three weeks to go and the EU referendum seems to have | :00:45. | :00:47. | |
permeated every corner of BBC television output. | :00:48. | :00:51. | |
As well as dominating the news, the subject featured | :00:52. | :00:53. | |
in a documentary on BBC Two on Tuesday, fronted | :00:54. | :00:55. | |
by the organisation's political editor, Laura Kuenssberg. | :00:56. | :01:00. | |
Andrew Neil, it has been announced, will be hosting three prime-time | :01:01. | :01:03. | |
television programmes on BBC One next week and the troublesome | :01:04. | :01:07. | |
business of campaigning even found its way onto last | :01:08. | :01:09. | |
We will ask the key players on both sides. | :01:10. | :01:17. | |
Prime Minister David Cameron for Britain Stronger In Europe. | :01:18. | :01:20. | |
I think it is one of our natural treasures. | :01:21. | :01:27. | |
And Boris Johnson from the Vote Leave campaign. | :01:28. | :01:30. | |
The countryside is central to ourselves and our sense | :01:31. | :01:32. | |
Why backing them promises a rosy future for rural Britain. | :01:33. | :01:55. | |
So were the rolling hills and bleating lambs of British | :01:56. | :01:59. | |
countryside a suitable forum for arguments about why | :02:00. | :02:01. | |
we should leave or stay in the European Union? | :02:02. | :02:06. | |
We put that objection to Countryfile and the executive producer told us: | :02:07. | :02:50. | |
That sense of referendum that he is clearly felt more widely. Andrew put | :02:51. | :02:55. | |
it like this: it is not just the quantity but the | :02:56. | :03:14. | |
nature of coverage that is turning some viewers. The leading players in | :03:15. | :03:19. | |
this battle are in one particular political party and Conservative | :03:20. | :03:24. | |
divisions are taking up too much air time for the tastes of this man. The | :03:25. | :03:30. | |
referendum coverage is unbalanced. It is perpetuating the view that it | :03:31. | :03:33. | |
is a struggle for power in the Conservative Party. On the evening | :03:34. | :03:41. | |
bulletin there were discussions with some politicians about immigration, | :03:42. | :03:48. | |
but at no point whether any interviews with Labour politicians | :03:49. | :03:55. | |
or other opposition politicians, all of the contributions were from | :03:56. | :03:58. | |
Conservative Party members. It is time that the national broadcaster | :03:59. | :04:03. | |
respected non-Conservative Party views on this important issue. For | :04:04. | :04:09. | |
one woman it is not the dominance of Conservatives that is the problem, | :04:10. | :04:10. | |
but the dominance of politicians: to discuss those perceptions of how | :04:11. | :04:38. | |
BBC News is covering the referendum campaign, and joined by Gavin Allen | :04:39. | :04:43. | |
who controls daily news programmes. Too many politicians into many | :04:44. | :04:47. | |
Conservatives in particular? Politicians are leading both the | :04:48. | :04:51. | |
official campaigns and to give them credit they have a lot of experience | :04:52. | :04:56. | |
at dealing with the departments that work with the European Union and it | :04:57. | :04:59. | |
is legitimate that we hear from them. It is also important to see a | :05:00. | :05:04. | |
range of voices which is what we have tried to do across all | :05:05. | :05:07. | |
programmes and to hear from a range of parties. Tell me more about the | :05:08. | :05:13. | |
range of voices. Viewers are saying it is not a party divide issue, it | :05:14. | :05:18. | |
is bigger than that, so we should be hearing more people who are not | :05:19. | :05:24. | |
politicians. If you look at breakfast TV coverage with the 10pm | :05:25. | :05:28. | |
news this week we have looked at farming and fishing and education | :05:29. | :05:32. | |
and the NHS, within those areas we have not been hearing from the | :05:33. | :05:36. | |
Cabinet Secretary for that area but from people in the Trinity. -- in | :05:37. | :05:47. | |
the community. Are we hearing a lot from people? I think so. Tim Martin | :05:48. | :05:53. | |
from Wetherspoon 's was there, Ian both on with elsewhere, they were | :05:54. | :05:57. | |
advocating their position on the referendum. Passion helps but so | :05:58. | :06:06. | |
does explanation. If everyone is on one side it will confuse viewers. | :06:07. | :06:12. | |
Part of the challenges that the campaigns are pumping out repetitive | :06:13. | :06:17. | |
lines and edited daily line-up of celebrities on every issue. It is | :06:18. | :06:21. | |
not your fault that they are running their campaigns that we did do you | :06:22. | :06:25. | |
think the BBC goes along with that too much. The agenda they tried to | :06:26. | :06:34. | |
set is normally the economy, controlling our borders, and a big | :06:35. | :06:38. | |
topic so it is important to look at them in debt. It would be remiss of | :06:39. | :06:43. | |
us if we waited for either camp to tell us what they want to do that | :06:44. | :06:49. | |
day and we just followed it. Another complaint is that there is a lot of | :06:50. | :06:52. | |
relevant comment and opinion in Europe. Heads of major EU businesses | :06:53. | :06:59. | |
and institutions. But apart from Angela Merkel, very little of that | :07:00. | :07:04. | |
gets onto the television. Should you not be putting more of those voices | :07:05. | :07:10. | |
on-air? There is a lot of material on the website and we are trying to | :07:11. | :07:14. | |
be comprehensive. We covered Angela Merkel on the Ten O'Clock News. We | :07:15. | :07:20. | |
also looked at comments from Spain and the Netherlands. It was also | :07:21. | :07:25. | |
from citizens in the EU, not just people in positions of the party. We | :07:26. | :07:30. | |
did a piece for Newsnight where he toured across Europe. We have a | :07:31. | :07:36. | |
referendum generation programme that looks younger people, including | :07:37. | :07:43. | |
people who are not British, to see how they are preceding the | :07:44. | :07:46. | |
referendum. There have been a lot of events in Cali over migrants, which | :07:47. | :07:52. | |
people say should be part of the immigration issue coverage and not | :07:53. | :07:56. | |
kept separate. I think it is a difficult area. When you say, keep | :07:57. | :08:02. | |
it separate, we are covering those stories. It is the perceptions of | :08:03. | :08:10. | |
people and members of the public but it is also distinct from it. There | :08:11. | :08:18. | |
are EU and non-EU migration issues. If we blurred the boundaries of that | :08:19. | :08:21. | |
I don't think we are serving the audience. There are still three | :08:22. | :08:26. | |
weeks ago and there is already quite a frenzy. A lot of the public feel | :08:27. | :08:31. | |
they are being put off, there is too much coverage. What should the BBC | :08:32. | :08:40. | |
do? What we're getting from audience research is that there is an | :08:41. | :08:44. | |
appetite for a clearer coverage and more coverage. It might be fishing | :08:45. | :08:49. | |
or farming you are interested in that we have to cover the whole | :08:50. | :08:54. | |
remit of this. Whatever someone is driven by, somewhere in a coverage | :08:55. | :08:58. | |
we must be able to let them see that make an informed decision thank you. | :08:59. | :09:08. | |
No doubt we will be looking at other aspects of the BBC's referendum | :09:09. | :09:12. | |
coverage between now and the 23rd of June did in the meantime we leave | :09:13. | :09:15. | |
you with some other topic boycott your attention week. The subject of | :09:16. | :09:21. | |
must each discussion on social media, 11 police forces around the | :09:22. | :09:25. | |
country have began inquiries following claims that the | :09:26. | :09:28. | |
Conservatives broke the law during last year's general election and the | :09:29. | :09:33. | |
electoral commission is also investigating. Channel 4 News has | :09:34. | :09:37. | |
covered the story extensively, and while it has been mentioned on some | :09:38. | :09:42. | |
BBC News outlets, there has not been nearly enough on it. Hundreds of | :09:43. | :09:48. | |
years that this, including this one. Surely this is a big story and the | :09:49. | :09:54. | |
BBC should be climbing all over it. Why are they not? Adi frightened? | :09:55. | :09:59. | |
Will upset someone in the establishment? The ramifications for | :10:00. | :10:03. | |
this is that we could be fighting an EU referendum by a party that was | :10:04. | :10:08. | |
voted in by election of fraudulent practices. The BBC has taken my | :10:09. | :10:15. | |
licence fee but it is not protecting the public or democracy. We at BBC | :10:16. | :10:18. | |
very responsive and they told us: the BBC's political editor, Laura | :10:19. | :10:45. | |
Kuenssberg, has found herself in the news and an online petition calling | :10:46. | :10:49. | |
for her to be sacked gathered 35,000 signatures before being removed last | :10:50. | :10:53. | |
month as it had become a focal point for misogynistic abuse. This week | :10:54. | :11:00. | |
Jeremy Corbyn said that the BBC was obsessed with trying to damage the | :11:01. | :11:03. | |
leadership of the party. On Thursday, when Laura Kuenssberg | :11:04. | :11:08. | |
Peterborough Hand ASCII question, this happened. Laura Kuenssberg from | :11:09. | :11:12. | |
the BBC. There has been much comment on the | :11:13. | :11:26. | |
smile and the poll is before Jeremy Corbyn lifted his hand, but Tom | :11:27. | :11:33. | |
Watson with quick to condemn the behaviour. He said: Laura Kuenssberg | :11:34. | :11:47. | |
posted this gentle reminder: thank you for all your comments this week. | :11:48. | :11:53. | |
If you want to share your opinion on the BBC's political reporting or any | :11:54. | :11:56. | |
aspect of BBC News and current affairs do telephone us or send us | :11:57. | :12:04. | |
an e-mail. You can find us on Twitter and they look at our | :12:05. | :12:13. | |
website. That is all from us, we will be back to hear your thoughts | :12:14. | :12:15. | |
about BBC News coverage again next | :12:16. | :12:16. |