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an honour. At ten o'clock there will be a full round-up of the news but | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
now it is time for the turn of Newswatch with Samira Ahmed looking | :00:07. | :00:09. | |
at the role of language in news headlines. | :00:10. | :00:15. | |
Hello and welcome to the first Newswatch of 2017 with me, | :00:16. | :00:17. | |
Samira Ahmed, where we'll be rounding up some of the comments | :00:18. | :00:20. | |
you've made about BBC News since we went off air before | :00:21. | :00:23. | |
Jill Saward died this week, but should | :00:24. | :00:26. | |
the BBC News website have described her in its | :00:27. | :00:28. | |
headline as a campaigner rather than as a victim? | :00:29. | :00:35. | |
And the year of celebrity deaths ended with several more, | :00:36. | :00:38. | |
Did the BBC lose perspective over the extent of its coverage? | :00:39. | :00:54. | |
First, the New Year has brought no respite from the terrorist attacks | :00:55. | :00:57. | |
that have become a regular feature of news broadcasts. | :00:58. | :00:59. | |
On Sunday came the latest atrocity, targeting those enjoying a night out | :01:00. | :01:02. | |
NEWS READER: Less than two hours into the New Year, | :01:03. | :01:05. | |
a gunman opened fire outside, bullets ricocheting as he shot | :01:06. | :01:08. | |
Another camera showed people cowering as the attacker struck, | :01:09. | :01:17. | |
Inside, his killing spree continued - Turks and foreigners murdered, | :01:18. | :01:27. | |
others jumping into the freezing Bosphorus to escape. | :01:28. | :01:29. | |
39 people have died in the attack and the coverage of it raised | :01:30. | :01:32. | |
questions we have heard before from Newswatch viewers | :01:33. | :01:34. | |
Now, how much TV news coverage did you want from the BBC | :01:35. | :01:47. | |
Some may have appreciated a break from what can be a fairly | :01:48. | :01:51. | |
grim diet of stories, but with many normal bulletins | :01:52. | :01:53. | |
dropped or shortened, others feel they were underserved, | :01:54. | :01:55. | |
including on the BBC's 24-hour news channel. | :01:56. | :01:57. | |
One annual staple of news coverage which did appear | :01:58. | :02:32. | |
Much of the focus was on sports stars, as described by Andy Swiss, | :02:33. | :02:41. | |
and pop stars and actors, reported on by Lizo Mzimba. | :02:42. | :02:43. | |
At the end of a glittering year for British sport, | :02:44. | :02:46. | |
for five of its greatest stars the greatest of honours. | :02:47. | :02:51. | |
Patricia Routledge has been made a dame. | :02:52. | :02:53. | |
Kinks frontman Ray Davis said he felt humility | :02:54. | :02:55. | |
Victoria Beckham becomes an OBE for services | :02:56. | :03:06. | |
Anthony Hainsworth took exception to the balance of the reporting, | :03:07. | :03:11. | |
And celebrity culture was at the heart of another series | :03:12. | :03:44. | |
of complaints on what's sadly become a very familiar theme in 2016. | :03:45. | :03:47. | |
Here's the start of BBC One's late bulletin on Christmas Day. | :03:48. | :03:54. | |
In the last hour the death has been announced of | :03:55. | :03:58. | |
George Michael shot to fame in the 1980s as half of the band | :03:59. | :04:06. | |
Wham and went on to have a hugely successful solo career. | :04:07. | :04:09. | |
He sold more than 80 million records worldwide. | :04:10. | :04:11. | |
The whole news bulletin tonight, apart from ten minutes, has been | :04:12. | :04:20. | |
It's time you reported the real news. | :04:21. | :04:33. | |
George Michael's was of course not the only death to be reported | :04:34. | :04:35. | |
on the BBC over the past couple of weeks, as the viewers | :04:36. | :04:40. | |
on the BBC over the past couple of weeks, as other viewers | :04:41. | :04:43. | |
It's the 27th of December and today, the BBC News and Channel 130 | :04:44. | :04:50. | |
An enormously long one for Carrie Fisher, there's still | :04:51. | :04:55. | |
contributions on George Michael, the author Richard Adams and about | :04:56. | :05:08. | |
There's so many important things happening in this world. | :05:09. | :05:12. | |
Good morning, every time I switch on the news to find out what's | :05:13. | :05:18. | |
happening in the world, all I see is an endless film of yet | :05:19. | :05:21. | |
another pop star who has taken himself to an early grave. | :05:22. | :05:29. | |
Sad for friends and family but, please, could you please | :05:30. | :05:32. | |
Thursday saw the death of Jill Saward, a long-term | :05:33. | :05:40. | |
campaigner for the rights of survivors and victims of sexual | :05:41. | :05:42. | |
violence, having herself been raped at the age of 21. | :05:43. | :05:47. | |
The news was widely and prominently reported at the BBC. | :05:48. | :05:53. | |
With George Alagiah tweeting that he was proud that TV's six | :05:54. | :06:01. | |
o'clock bulletin led on her life and influence. | :06:02. | :06:03. | |
But when the story broke the BBC News alert and the website | :06:04. | :06:06. | |
headlined its report of her death like this - using the word "victim". | :06:07. | :06:14. | |
Prompting many complaints, like this one from Becky Stevens, on Twitter. | :06:15. | :06:17. | |
Surely Jill was so much more than a rape victim. | :06:18. | :06:18. | |
She was a survivor and successful campaign for the rights of others. | :06:19. | :06:21. | |
Christopher Oxford called it a shamefully reductionist headline. | :06:22. | :06:23. | |
Ms Saward was not defined by once being a victim, | :06:24. | :06:25. | |
And Eleanor Hill thought it was an appalling headline. | :06:26. | :06:29. | |
We put this to BBC News, and they referred to a 2004 BBC | :06:30. | :06:36. | |
interview in which Jill Saward said that she had no complaint | :06:37. | :06:40. | |
about being described as the Ealing vicarage rape victim, | :06:41. | :06:45. | |
as it enabled her to challenge politicians and work for change. | :06:46. | :06:48. | |
A BBC spokesman added, we are always very careful to report | :06:49. | :06:50. | |
sensitively on the news of someone's death and we covered in detail | :06:51. | :06:53. | |
Ms Saward's extensive work as a sexual assault campaigner. | :06:54. | :06:57. | |
Ms Saward was the first person in the UK to be raped | :06:58. | :07:05. | |
and waive her right to anonymity, and hers was one of the most | :07:06. | :07:08. | |
high-profile criminal cases of the decade, | :07:09. | :07:10. | |
the reason why she is so well-known and which led | :07:11. | :07:12. | |
Well, another issue of language cropped up at the end of last year | :07:13. | :07:16. | |
in relation to the death of another woman. | :07:17. | :07:18. | |
Georgina Symonds was killed a year ago by Peter Morgan, | :07:19. | :07:21. | |
who was sentenced four days before Christmas to life in | :07:22. | :07:23. | |
This was the headline on the News at Six that night. | :07:24. | :07:29. | |
Life for the property developer millionaire | :07:30. | :07:31. | |
Once I'd sort of attempted to murder her, I'd be in a hell | :07:32. | :07:47. | |
of a lot of trouble for that, and she could have still gone | :07:48. | :07:50. | |
So no mention of Georgina Symonds' name there, but the one word | :07:51. | :07:54. | |
was used there and online which worried a number of viewers. | :07:55. | :07:56. | |
In response, BBC News told us this: | :07:57. | :09:00. | |
Well, it's clear that the language used in reporting a death | :09:01. | :09:02. | |
and especially the shorthand of a headline can give great offence | :09:03. | :09:05. | |
to an audience, and that especially applies to suicide. | :09:06. | :09:07. | |
Since we were last on air, we have had two examples of that. | :09:08. | :09:11. | |
One following a story on Breakfast about a rowing trip | :09:12. | :09:13. | |
across the Atlantic raising money for a crisis centre in memory of one | :09:14. | :09:16. | |
We wish you all the best, stay safe, and hopefully we will pick | :09:17. | :09:22. | |
up with you when you reach Antigua at the end of January, | :09:23. | :09:25. | |
That is Sam, Toby, Rory and Harry, who are rowing the Atlantic to try | :09:26. | :09:30. | |
and raise money for Harry's brother who committed suicide ten years ago. | :09:31. | :09:33. | |
Rosalind Allen was watching that and e-mailed us with her response. | :09:34. | :10:02. | |
A couple of days earlier, the phrase had also been | :10:03. | :10:05. | |
used on the news ticker, scrolling across the bottom | :10:06. | :10:07. | |
of the screen during an overnight bulletin and then, for this caller | :10:08. | :10:10. | |
The ribbons running across the bottom has an item, | :10:11. | :10:15. | |
news story, chief resigns after overworked employee | :10:16. | :10:17. | |
20 or so news items after that, the next statement standing alone | :10:18. | :10:22. | |
reads "I tried to kill myself several times." | :10:23. | :10:29. | |
In the early hours of the morning, when vulnerable people | :10:30. | :10:42. | |
it reads "I tried to kill myself several times." | :10:43. | :10:50. | |
I object strongly to this, this is sickening. | :10:51. | :11:02. | |
Again, we asked BBC News for a statement on issues of | :11:03. | :11:05. | |
language about suicide and they told us: | :11:06. | :11:15. | |
Well, thank you for all of your comments this week. | :11:16. | :11:17. | |
As a New Year gets under way on Newswatch, | :11:18. | :11:19. | |
we would like you to tell us what topics you would like us | :11:20. | :11:22. | |
to cover, which news figures we should be interviewing. | :11:23. | :11:25. | |
You can give us your opinion on BBC News current affairs | :11:26. | :11:28. | |
and you can be quoted, or even appear on the programme. | :11:29. | :11:31. | |
You can find us on Twitter and do have a look at our | :11:32. | :11:40. | |
That's all from us, we will be back to hear what you thought of the BBC | :11:41. | :11:52. |