:00:00. > :00:00.Attend him, will have a full round-up of the day's news. First,
:00:00. > :00:10.News watch. Coming up, he's about to be
:00:11. > :00:15.re-elected as Labour leader if the But has Jeremy Corbyn been
:00:16. > :00:19.given a fair hearing by And just how important
:00:20. > :00:25.is the separation of Angelina Jolie Last week, we add the charge that
:00:26. > :00:38.BBC News had over its reporting of the departure
:00:39. > :00:40.of the Great British This week, more cake
:00:41. > :00:52.related complaints. Breaking news, we have
:00:53. > :00:54.a statement from Channel 4 confirming that Paul
:00:55. > :00:55.Hollywood has signed a deal to go to bake off
:00:56. > :00:57.on Well, that hot on the heels
:00:58. > :01:01.of the news that Mary Berry is She is staying at the BBC and won't
:01:02. > :01:07.be following the show to Channel 4. As we have just heard on the last
:01:08. > :01:10.few seconds, Paul Hollywood has signed a deal to go
:01:11. > :01:16.with the show to Channel 4. The excitement was not shared
:01:17. > :01:19.by everyone, with scores of responding along the lines
:01:20. > :01:21.of Steve Gilbert from Chelmsford. And that wasn't the first bit
:01:22. > :01:46.of breaking news this week Now, the breaking news
:01:47. > :01:56.is that Hollywood's most famous celebrity couple,
:01:57. > :01:59.Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt are to A lawyer for Angelina Jolie has said
:02:00. > :02:05.that she has initiated the This is coming initially
:02:06. > :02:12.from the showbiz website in Los Angeles, TMZ, which said that she
:02:13. > :02:16.has filed divorce papers yesterday, Nicola Vaughan from Cheltenham
:02:17. > :02:32.called with her thoughts on the I've been tuned in to BBC
:02:33. > :02:36.News Channel today. I was a little disgruntled
:02:37. > :02:39.that Tim Farron's speech was interrupted
:02:40. > :02:41.move swiftly and live to Barack Obama, but could understand it.
:02:42. > :02:43.I could also understand why the focus
:02:44. > :02:48.on the ceasefire in Syria deserved to be so prominent on the news feed.
:02:49. > :02:52.I really, really cannot understand why breaking news that Angelina
:02:53. > :02:55.Jolie and Brad Pitt are getting divorced seems to supersede all
:02:56. > :03:02.I thought I was watching a news channel, not celebrity divorce
:03:03. > :03:20.When Jeremy Corbyn was first elected Labour leader just
:03:21. > :03:23.over a year ago, there was much discussion about whether he would be
:03:24. > :03:31.Less confrontational at Prime Minister's Questions, for example.
:03:32. > :03:33.And perhaps requiring a new approach from news
:03:34. > :03:36.But since then, many of his supporters have criticised they feel
:03:37. > :03:39.has been consistently hostile bias against him by BBC News.
:03:40. > :03:41.We'll be discussing this in a moment, but
:03:42. > :03:43.first he a clip from Wednesday's News at 1pm,
:03:44. > :03:48.when Norman Smith was discussing the personal focus of the
:03:49. > :03:50.There aren't really there aren't really
:03:51. > :03:56.those huge policy differences between Mr Corbyn and Mr Smith.
:03:57. > :03:57.They're roughly on the same political page
:03:58. > :04:02.It's been about personality and Mr Smith's
:04:03. > :04:05.conviction that he is better equipped to lead the party, manage
:04:06. > :04:08.Today he got some surprising support from Mr
:04:09. > :04:10.Corbyn's first wife, who said she had been voting for him
:04:11. > :04:12.because you thought Jeremy Corbyn not really up
:04:13. > :04:16.to it and actually haven't changed any of his views since the 1970s.
:04:17. > :04:18.That damning verdict, it is alleged, has
:04:19. > :04:19.been heard too often on the
:04:20. > :04:26.Rich Chamberlain objected to its being repeated
:04:27. > :04:39.from that particular source.
:04:40. > :04:43.More accusations of bias followed Monday's panorama, which
:04:44. > :04:51.asked the question, Labour, is the party over?
:04:52. > :04:53.We've been on the front line of Labour's civil war.
:04:54. > :04:55.The battle for the soul of the Labour
:04:56. > :04:58.Party is going to be fought out on the streets
:04:59. > :05:01.I think we are standing absolutely at
:05:02. > :05:04.And it might well be that one or other of the
:05:05. > :05:07.factions, or both of us, and up going over it.
:05:08. > :05:13.There has been abuse, bullying, threats.
:05:14. > :05:27.Diane Randall was one of a number of viewers to contact us about that
:05:28. > :05:51.Well, we asked BBC News for someone to come and
:05:52. > :05:53.discusses on the programme, but no one was available.
:05:54. > :06:22.Instead, they gave us this statement.
:06:23. > :06:25.Well, we are joined now by one of the viewers who
:06:26. > :06:29.contacted us this week, Kevin Foley in our Nottingham studio.
:06:30. > :06:31.We should say, your supporter of Jeremy Corbyn
:06:32. > :06:35.What is your concern about the coverage?
:06:36. > :06:37.I think in line with some of the
:06:38. > :06:40.e-mails there and your introduction, I think it's been very frustrating
:06:41. > :06:44.that there hasn't been as much coverage of his policies, which are
:06:45. > :06:53.And the emphasis has been on a very personal level, and
:06:54. > :07:03.I noted a while back that Nick Robinson, the BBC man,
:07:04. > :07:07.said he was shocked at the treatment Mr Corbyn had hard.
:07:08. > :07:09.And you have other concerns about the tone of
:07:10. > :07:14.coverage, and also the kinds of voices commenting on him?
:07:15. > :07:17.I mean, it's almost as if the mood changes,
:07:18. > :07:30.It's Doctor Who time for Corbyn supporters.
:07:31. > :07:39.There often seems to be twice as many people detracting from
:07:40. > :07:47.And the presenters can introduce an element of incredulity when it
:07:48. > :07:59.comes to treating anything Jeremy Corbyn says.
:08:00. > :08:01.So doesn't come across as evenhanded, it comes across
:08:02. > :08:05.I want to mention a particular example of something that
:08:06. > :08:08.When the Shadow Cabinet, you know, resigned,
:08:09. > :08:12.That was really happening, there was a real issue
:08:13. > :08:20.Journalists would say that the heart of what they are trying to cover.
:08:21. > :08:23.Yeah, there is a feeling and we don't know how valid this is,
:08:24. > :08:30.that there was some corporation between the BBC News team and the
:08:31. > :08:36.I take your point, but these things happen and
:08:37. > :08:37.they are happening in the public domain.
:08:38. > :08:39.You aren't saying journalists shouldn't cover them, are you?
:08:40. > :08:43.But there is far too much emphasis on personality, and
:08:44. > :08:45.people really would like to get through to the policies.
:08:46. > :08:52.Because as I say, his policies are often, when
:08:53. > :08:53.people asked anonymously whether they support
:08:54. > :08:57.And then they're presenting a picture of Jeremy and because he's
:08:58. > :09:00.been turned into a pantomime villain, to some extent by the BBC
:09:01. > :09:13.News as we would say, than they recoil in
:09:14. > :09:17.When Jeremy Corbyn comes to an interview and is asked, would
:09:18. > :09:21.Journalists would say that story and politicians, mostly know they
:09:22. > :09:24.have to think that what they say might be interpreted in ways they
:09:25. > :09:27.Is that the issue, that he doesn't approach interviews,
:09:28. > :09:29.perhaps, the way a lot of other politicians to?
:09:30. > :09:36.He doesn't play the game in the same way that other people play the game.
:09:37. > :09:39.But people are largely very sick and tired of politicians
:09:40. > :09:46.I think they'd much rather somebody tells us that they are 7.5
:09:47. > :09:48.out of ten for Europe, rather than someone
:09:49. > :09:49.who pretends that they are
:09:50. > :09:54.Assuming Jeremy Corbyn is re-elected as Labour
:09:55. > :10:03.leader this weekend, how would you want
:10:04. > :10:06.reset the button in a way, if it could,
:10:07. > :10:10.Whoever is writing the scripts, I think they've
:10:11. > :10:13.got to try and be more careful with their language they use.
:10:14. > :10:17.But in general, I think the biggest thing is to get
:10:18. > :10:20.If people don't want to vote for him because they
:10:21. > :10:21.don't like his policies, that's fine.
:10:22. > :10:30.But I think it's undermining democracy if people
:10:31. > :10:33.don't get opportunity to find out what those policies are.
:10:34. > :10:36.Now, we occasionally hear complaints are
:10:37. > :10:45.totally get distracted from what news
:10:46. > :10:46.presenters are saying by the
:10:47. > :10:50.A couple of years ago, we featured the horror of
:10:51. > :10:53.the fly that appeared on the camera lens during the broadcast of
:10:54. > :10:55.Reporting Scotland and was then captured by a spider.
:10:56. > :10:57.It appears they have a problem with wildlife in
:10:58. > :10:59.that studio in Glasgow because on Monday morning, on the same
:11:00. > :11:01.programme, the creepy crawlers got hot again.
:11:02. > :11:04.That's all for now, I'll be back with another update.
:11:05. > :11:08.This time, it was a wasp magnified by the camera and stealing the show
:11:09. > :11:12.Twitter was abuzz with rumours of a giant insect
:11:13. > :11:17.attack, with one person suggesting...
:11:18. > :11:28.Another BBC presenter, John Beattie, claimed...
:11:29. > :11:32.Thank you for your comments this week.
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