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This week, did BBC News win a gold medal for its | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
Hello and welcome to Newswatch with me Samira Ahmed. | :00:00. | :00:13. | |
Coming up: Looking back at the event which dominated news | :00:14. | :00:15. | |
Yes, there were gold medals galore for our competitors in Rio, | :00:16. | :00:20. | |
but was BBC News coverage of the Olympics quite | :00:21. | :00:22. | |
First, the fallout from the Brexit vote in June's referendum continues | :00:23. | :00:30. | |
On Wednesday Daniel Sandford reported for the BBC News at Six | :00:31. | :00:41. | |
on the murder of a Polish man in Essex. | :00:42. | :00:44. | |
The fear is that this was a frenzied, racist attack | :00:45. | :00:46. | |
While detectives are not ruling it out it may be that Arek Jozwik | :00:47. | :00:50. | |
wasn't targeted because of his race, but simply because he was there | :00:51. | :00:53. | |
when a group of youths was looking for trouble. | :00:54. | :01:00. | |
A number of viewers reacted in a way described here by Chris Wilkins. | :01:01. | :01:23. | |
On Sunday, BBC One news bulletins marked 100 years since the founding | :01:24. | :01:27. | |
of the coastal Marine force which began as a fleet of high-speed | :01:28. | :01:32. | |
torpedo boats in the First World War and sank over 500 enemy | :01:33. | :01:35. | |
They first fired up in 1916, were the idea | :01:36. | :01:45. | |
They were just 50 feet long and carried one or two torpedoes. | :01:46. | :01:51. | |
Enough to hit large enemy ships then escape at high speed. | :01:52. | :01:57. | |
Unfortunately, the archive footage of the explosion there was not | :01:58. | :02:04. | |
a British torpedo hitting a large enemy ship, as a couple | :02:05. | :02:09. | |
of eagle-eyed viewers spotted, as John Bryant wrote: | :02:10. | :02:20. | |
And now, as they say, for something completely different. | :02:21. | :02:26. | |
On Wednesday morning Breakfast showed some rather striking footage. | :02:27. | :02:28. | |
Explain what this is, this is a professional unicyclist. | :02:29. | :02:33. | |
Malcolm Thomas thought showing that was: | :02:34. | :03:17. | |
Now, for many the highlights of the their summer television | :03:18. | :03:20. | |
viewing would have been the triumphs of Usain Bolt and Mo Farah | :03:21. | :03:23. | |
on the track, Laura Trott and Jason Kenny in the velodrome, | :03:24. | :03:25. | |
or Britain's women on the hockey pitch. | :03:26. | :03:27. | |
All gripping stuff, but what else was there on the box? | :03:28. | :03:30. | |
Well, there were BBC One's news bulletins and the news channel. | :03:31. | :03:32. | |
But for 16 days in August they, too, had a distinctly Olympic flavour. | :03:33. | :03:35. | |
Hello, this is Breakfast with Louise MInchin and Charlie... | :03:36. | :03:39. | |
-- Hello, this is Breakfast with Louise Minchin and Charlie... | :03:40. | :03:42. | |
For the duration of the Olympic Games BBC Breakfast reinvented | :03:43. | :03:45. | |
itself as Olympic Breakfast with many of the big events | :03:46. | :03:47. | |
happening overnight it was the first opportunity for most of us to catch | :03:48. | :03:51. | |
But there was also plenty of reaction and background material. | :03:52. | :04:10. | |
Too much for Kathryn Coury who wrote: | :04:11. | :04:12. | |
to see the race, but a bit more non-sporting news. | :04:13. | :04:24. | |
British success soon started, of course, but a couple of days | :04:25. | :04:44. | |
later Carol Mabbutt had this reaction to the news at six: | :04:45. | :04:46. | |
And here's Bill Dickie on the following day: | :04:47. | :04:58. | |
On the 15th of August, Grant Privett echoed that by adding: | :04:59. | :05:15. | |
And on August 21st we receive this tweet: | :05:16. | :05:24. | |
Well, to discuss this I'm joined in the studio by viewer | :05:25. | :05:32. | |
and the editor of the BBC six and ten o'clock news, | :05:33. | :05:36. | |
Paul Royle, and in our Cambridge studio is another | :05:37. | :05:38. | |
Cathy, first, what was your concern about the Olympics | :05:39. | :05:41. | |
The amount of time that was devoted to it. | :05:42. | :05:49. | |
And also, that it seemed to become the prime focus of all news that | :05:50. | :05:52. | |
It almost seemed as though the rest of the national and international | :05:53. | :06:06. | |
news sort of got lumped into other news, you know, | :06:07. | :06:09. | |
for about ten minutes onto the end of the Olympics. | :06:10. | :06:11. | |
And then reverting back to the Olympics afterwards. | :06:12. | :06:13. | |
I just felt that when I switch on the news that is what I | :06:14. | :06:16. | |
I want to see the whole of the news, not just a repeat of what I've | :06:17. | :06:23. | |
Tim, what about you, adding to what Cathy said. | :06:24. | :06:28. | |
I very much agree with what Cathy has said. | :06:29. | :06:32. | |
My concern was that the news bulletins seemed to be dominated | :06:33. | :06:34. | |
Particularly given the BBC was providing virtually wall-to-wall | :06:35. | :06:41. | |
coverage of the Olympics in any case, I didn't really think | :06:42. | :06:46. | |
it was necessary for the news bulletins to be dominated | :06:47. | :06:49. | |
by the coverage of the Olympics in the way that they were at | :06:50. | :06:52. | |
the expense of other important news coverage. | :06:53. | :07:02. | |
For instance, you sometimes had to wait ten or 15 minutes before | :07:03. | :07:04. | |
you got onto any other items of news at all. | :07:05. | :07:07. | |
Paul, this is the general feeling, the Olympics people | :07:08. | :07:09. | |
were happy to see coverage, there were lots of great stories, | :07:10. | :07:11. | |
but the disproportion and particularly the sense that | :07:12. | :07:13. | |
you got ten minutes of Olympic pride and then suddenly a couple | :07:14. | :07:16. | |
of minutes of Aleppo just stuck in in a tiny amount. | :07:17. | :07:20. | |
Burst, the Olympics is a global event. -- first. Once every four | :07:21. | :07:33. | |
years. There is a huge amount of audience interest in the Olympics. | :07:34. | :07:39. | |
In this case, from Team GB's sporting performance all the way to | :07:40. | :07:43. | |
issues around Rio, Brazil, tickets, the Paralympics afterwards, and so | :07:44. | :07:48. | |
on, there were a number of stories and news attached to the Olympics. I | :07:49. | :07:56. | |
would reject this idea that are the news wasn't covered, or we weren't | :07:57. | :07:59. | |
thinking about other news when Aleppo should be the lead story, the | :08:00. | :08:03. | |
chlorine gas attack, for example, it was the lead story on the ten | :08:04. | :08:07. | |
o'clock news. We covered international and domestic stories | :08:08. | :08:13. | |
in the same way as... They were squeezed, work today, within shorter | :08:14. | :08:18. | |
bulletins often. On a number of occasions there was less airtime but | :08:19. | :08:21. | |
always with the proviso that on any given day, and we looked at this and | :08:22. | :08:26. | |
thought hard about this every day, on any given day if there was | :08:27. | :08:31. | |
additional stories or news and we needed to include it in the | :08:32. | :08:34. | |
bulletins, or we thought we should, we would extend the programmes. That | :08:35. | :08:38. | |
was always the role we carried through the whole Olympic Games. | :08:39. | :08:43. | |
Cathy, you had an example of a specific story, I think it was the | :08:44. | :08:48. | |
Labour leadership debate getting interrupted by Olympics. Can you | :08:49. | :08:55. | |
tell us about that. Yes. I was additionally frustrated by having | :08:56. | :08:57. | |
taken time out of my day I specifically wanted to spend time | :08:58. | :09:03. | |
watching the Labour leadership debate. Everybody was introduced. | :09:04. | :09:07. | |
Then they said, right, before we do all that we are just going to go | :09:08. | :09:12. | |
back and find out about the Olympics. And we had another, oh, it | :09:13. | :09:17. | |
must have been a five, ten minute report about what was going on in | :09:18. | :09:22. | |
Rio again with all of the same clips we'd already seen many times that | :09:23. | :09:28. | |
morning. One of the things you raised, ten, was just how far it was | :09:29. | :09:33. | |
cheerleading the British side all the way in this coverage. That is to | :09:34. | :09:40. | |
some extent true. They concentrated, it seemed to me, on the successes of | :09:41. | :09:48. | |
Team GB. Apart from Usain Bolt, or Michael Phelps, hardly anyone else | :09:49. | :09:53. | |
got a mention at all. Also, even when there wasn't a medal for Team | :09:54. | :09:57. | |
GB, you then had speculation about who might get a medal in the future. | :09:58. | :10:03. | |
I wouldn't have said that was news. There are two things viewers would | :10:04. | :10:07. | |
like the news teams to rethink. The proportion of the coverage but also | :10:08. | :10:11. | |
the accusation made just now by ten that perhaps there was a bit too | :10:12. | :10:15. | |
much cheerleading and not enough impartial coverage of who were the | :10:16. | :10:19. | |
most important athlete at Rio, and not so much on just British | :10:20. | :10:23. | |
prospects. Again, that is always a challenge. It was in 2012, as well. | :10:24. | :10:29. | |
Team GB had an amazing Rio games. Second in the world. 67 medals. At | :10:30. | :10:34. | |
the same time we covered stories about other countries, around other | :10:35. | :10:39. | |
athletes, Michael Phelps, said mobiles, other athletes who broke | :10:40. | :10:42. | |
records, we covered the controversies in the games, weather | :10:43. | :10:45. | |
it was the questions over Castres amend your questions around the | :10:46. | :10:55. | |
Paralympics. -- Simone Biles. On the night the Team GB hockey team won | :10:56. | :11:01. | |
that with medal, the top story on the ten o'clock news which followed | :11:02. | :11:04. | |
was about the problems of the funding to the Paralympics. -- | :11:05. | :11:15. | |
Caster Semenya. A lot of the audience were appreciative of com | :11:16. | :11:19. | |
and we were getting big audiences into news programmes and news | :11:20. | :11:23. | |
coverage. That was part of it. It was a challenge. I'm not disputing | :11:24. | :11:28. | |
that. I accept there would be some frustration if you are expecting one | :11:29. | :11:31. | |
thing and you have to wait a bit because there are some Olympics you | :11:32. | :11:35. | |
feel you've already seen. Thank you all. And that's all from us. Thank | :11:36. | :11:42. | |
you for all of your comments this week. If you would like to share | :11:43. | :11:47. | |
your opinions, or even appear on the programme, you can call us on: | :11:48. | :11:57. | |
We will be back to hear your thoughts about BBC News coverage | :11:58. | :12:06. | |
again next week. Goodbye. | :12:07. | :12:09. |