:00:09. > :00:14.Welcome to Newswatch with me, Paddy O'Connell.
:00:15. > :00:16.Ahead on the programme: Mass murder in Nice.
:00:17. > :00:24.How did the BBC deal with such big, breaking news just hours apart?
:00:25. > :00:29.Have you ever come across anyone quite like Boris Johnson?
:00:30. > :00:32.Should the new Foreign Secretary, should he be questioned
:00:33. > :00:36.This is a brutal reshuffle, Mrs May, isn't it?
:00:37. > :00:47.And, was the Prime Minister ever likely to answer that question?
:00:48. > :00:50.First, Donald Trump has now been officially adopted as the Republican
:00:51. > :00:53.candidate for the presidency of the United States.
:00:54. > :00:57.There were not many predicting that one year ago.
:00:58. > :01:00.News from the party convention in Cleveland, Ohio, has focused
:01:01. > :01:05.largely on weather Mr Trump's wife copied sections of her speech
:01:06. > :01:09.from one by Michelle Obama and on the booing delegates
:01:10. > :01:15.gave his former rival for the candidacy, Ted Cruz.
:01:16. > :01:17.But beyond rows like this, are we hearing enough
:01:18. > :01:44.about what a Trump presidency might actually be like?
:01:45. > :01:52.For one viewer, the coverage has all been about one man.
:01:53. > :01:55.On Thursday night, we did hear a bit more substance, with coverage
:01:56. > :01:59.of Donald Trump's speech, accepting his nomination,
:02:00. > :02:03.but some feel there is an unfair spin being put on his words.
:02:04. > :02:23.It has been a busy month of news as you or I can remember.
:02:24. > :02:26.Editors need to react swiftly to unforeseen and complex events
:02:27. > :02:32.An example came at the end of last week when Friday night's attempted
:02:33. > :02:36.coup in Turkey came so soon after Thursday night's lorry
:02:37. > :02:44.Bastille Day celebrations turned to horror.
:02:45. > :02:49.People running for their lives as terror strikes the Riviera.
:02:50. > :02:52.France declares three days of national mourning
:02:53. > :02:59.For several hours, information on the ground in France was scarce,
:03:00. > :03:03.leaving news organisations relying on eyewitness accounts and footage
:03:04. > :03:07.Our viewer, Nicky, thought some of that material,
:03:08. > :03:09.used on the news at six, was unsuitable for
:03:10. > :03:33.Some of the interview is transmitted were equally harrowing,
:03:34. > :03:53.With me to discuss this is Hilary O'Neil, deputy
:03:54. > :03:56.editor of the BBC One, six and ten o'clock News bulletins.
:03:57. > :04:02.We have the say before we reach some criticism, there has
:04:03. > :04:06.seldom been a time like this for the news.
:04:07. > :04:08.I think what we are seeing in the criticism from viewers
:04:09. > :04:11.is that maybe we are all becoming desensitised, maybe even you.
:04:12. > :04:15.The footage that was sent to you, was it right to put all of that
:04:16. > :04:18.The first thing and the most important thing to say
:04:19. > :04:20.is that we take enormous care over what pictures
:04:21. > :04:23.we put in the bulletins and there is a process for doing
:04:24. > :04:27.that and it will involve a number of people in the newsroom looking
:04:28. > :04:29.very carefully at the material coming in and deciding
:04:30. > :04:31.on an editorial basis and using our best judgment,
:04:32. > :04:34.what pictures we use and what we don't use.
:04:35. > :04:37.We understand a lot of it is very distressing.
:04:38. > :04:39.It is an appalling story and something dreadful has happened.
:04:40. > :04:42.If you look back at the pictures that we used on the six
:04:43. > :04:45.and ten o'clock that night, every single bit of footage told
:04:46. > :04:47.part of the story, none of it duplicated, none
:04:48. > :04:50.of it was extraneous and it allowed us to build a picture
:04:51. > :04:53.of what happened that evening and it is one of the extraordinary
:04:54. > :04:57.things of the times we live in that that kind of picture is available
:04:58. > :05:00.to us because nobody could have expected it to happen and there
:05:01. > :05:04.The question is, because it is available, does it need to be used?
:05:05. > :05:07.You used something our viewer didn't like.
:05:08. > :05:10.But what about the fact that it goes on and on and on.
:05:11. > :05:15.The other viewers say you should step away at times
:05:16. > :05:17.because the terrorists want to dominate BBC News,
:05:18. > :05:22.All we can do is tell the story as best we can
:05:23. > :05:38.If all we did was talk to traumatise people who were extremely upset and
:05:39. > :05:45.unhappy you may have a point but we did not just do that. We tried to
:05:46. > :05:50.piece together a story about the perpetrator and the intelligence,
:05:51. > :05:54.the operation around him, we went for international reaction, we did a
:05:55. > :06:03.lot of explaining as well of emotional reaction. We tried to get
:06:04. > :06:14.to the context of the whole story. The focus changed on Friday evening.
:06:15. > :06:20.Tonight, just at months after the attacks in Paris, France is in
:06:21. > :06:26.mourning once again. And there is another major developing this story
:06:27. > :06:34.tonight. Reports of a military coup in Turkey. Bridges in Istanbul are
:06:35. > :06:43.blocked and there is gunfire in the capital, Ankara. Most of the stories
:06:44. > :07:08.were still concentrating about the attack in France.
:07:09. > :07:23.On the first sight, did you go too late on the news on Turkey? No, we
:07:24. > :07:28.did not. 21 minutes pass. It was in the headlines and, secondly, there
:07:29. > :07:33.was enormous confusion and events were still unfolding. Nobody knew
:07:34. > :07:39.what was happening, it was completely unexpected and it is our
:07:40. > :07:45.duty to get the best possible take on what is happening. People look to
:07:46. > :07:51.us to be telling them what we know to be true, even if we have to stay
:07:52. > :07:59.on some occasion we are not exactly sure what is going on. You cannot
:08:00. > :08:06.pass a story as big as the story in Nice where 84 people were killed. We
:08:07. > :08:13.may have been accused of going to something that was not confirmed and
:08:14. > :08:19.neglecting the story. You can be criticised from one direction and
:08:20. > :08:29.the other. One viewer showed grabs from other News channels. You could
:08:30. > :08:35.have gone a bit earlier? Of course, we could have. There is always one
:08:36. > :08:43.more way of doing it. And it is never going please everybody. It was
:08:44. > :08:48.a decision to defend. One of our priorities is to give people as much
:08:49. > :08:58.authenticated information as we can. Thank you very much. Domestic
:08:59. > :09:05.politics has come down from 100 miles per hour to 70 mph but on
:09:06. > :09:11.Tuesday, the new Foreign Secretary, Boris Johnson, gave a news
:09:12. > :09:20.conference with John Kerry. There were questions for both of them. Can
:09:21. > :09:25.I give you this opportunity to apologise to the rumours you may
:09:26. > :09:34.have been connected to. Have you ever come across anybody quite like
:09:35. > :09:39.Boris Johnson? I will give you sometime think about that, John.
:09:40. > :09:47.This man is a very smart and capable man. I can live with that. A viewer
:09:48. > :09:59.was not laughing. In fact, she was annoyed and disgusted that...
:10:00. > :10:08.BBC journalists have been spending a lot of time in Downing Street none
:10:09. > :10:13.more than Norman Smith. Casting our mind back to Thursday, last week, he
:10:14. > :10:18.was there with Simon McCoy as the Prime Minister arrived back at her
:10:19. > :10:30.new residents seek to complete appointing her team. You asking the
:10:31. > :10:40.questions? I will leave this to you. This is a brutal reshuffle, Mrs May?
:10:41. > :10:46.Are brutal reshuffle. No surprises at no answers. I do not know how
:10:47. > :10:59.long I have been doing this and you never get any answers. One viewer
:11:00. > :11:07.commented... I have been watching him shouting various questions
:11:08. > :11:12.across Downing Street. And then ducking out of the way of the
:11:13. > :11:19.camera, in expectation that they would be a useful reply, which they
:11:20. > :11:25.never is. Vicki Young does this as well. They remind me of schoolkids
:11:26. > :11:29.teasing each other across the street for the sake of their group of
:11:30. > :11:38.friends. I find it embarrassing to watch. I expect a bit more dignity.
:11:39. > :11:45.Is that possible? The question hanging in the air. We are off the
:11:46. > :11:58.air for a few weeks over the summer but, fear not, we will be back in
:11:59. > :12:10.September. You can call us, e-mail us, or find us on Twitter. Do look
:12:11. > :12:16.at the website. That is all from us, we will be back to heat your
:12:17. > :12:19.thoughts about BBC News coverage in September. Goodbye.