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now on bbc news it's time for newswatch. hello and welcome to newswatch with me samira ahmed. did bbc news overdo the platinumjubilee celebrations last weekend and forget its normal journalistic values? 0h, quite the booing in the crowd, and you can hear it... and did the bbc alter the sound level of booing when repeating shots of boris and carriejohnson at last week's thanksgiving service? a decade ago, the bbc was widely criticised for dumbing down it's treatment of the queens diamond jubilee, with its rain drenched royal flotilla along the thames. and a year ago, it received a record 100,000 complaints about the extent of air time devoted to the duke

of edinburgh's death. those experiences coupled, with the recent troubled history of the royal family meant there was an intense focus on how the platinum jubilees death was covered on the bbc. and the corporation certainly pulled out all the stops from the start of the weekend to the end. cheering. she was the star of the show and it was her grand finale. the queen began the celebrations on the balcony here and this is where they ended, after a weekend of pomp, partying and pagea ntry. for many last week and showed the bbc at its finest with punker from felixstowe writing...

there were of course grumbles. some of them from enthusiasts for the monarchy who objected to occasional references to protest against the celebrations. and interviews with representatives of the republican movement. there are actually twice as many people now who want to abolish the monarchy as who are celebrating thejubilee. you wouldn't know that if you had been watching bbc�*s coverage of the last few days. deb taylor was watching that and e—mails... many of the ceremonies progress on the channel of the corporations

largely celebratory approach represented a failure of journalistic impartiality. for dave in birmingham... 0ne specific moment over the long week and attracted a lot of attention from the audience and it came as guests arrived at st. paul's cathedral on friday morning for the queens thanksgiving service. the prime ministerjust arriving with his wife. quite booing in the crowd. you can hear it, there is quite of lot of booing, actually. a substantial amount. didn't see that coming. quite a moment.

we definitely haven't heard that for any other vip guests, that's fair to say. that was broadcast live. but as jane hill continued to talk to her guests, the footage of mr and mrsjohnson was replayed a few minutes later on the new channel. this time it sounded like this. hopefully, that isn't the big story that's going to come out today, going to come out today, hopefully, it's a family gathering together to recognise the contribution and the service of their boss. she's the boss of the firm as well as being the kind of matriarch figure of the royal family. certainly, i hope that queen in the midst of the celebration, she's also going to get to meet her one—year—old granddaughter. some viewers detected less booing and not repeat showing of the pictures with when they were broadcast again later in the weekend. vicki middleton from

northampton shire was one of them. well, to respond to all those issues, i'm doing here in the studios by richard burgess, interim senior controller of bbc content. and down the line from somerset by one of the viewers who contacted us about last weekend jubilee coverage, paul banwell. let's talk first richard about the booing. 0verwhelmingly, the viewers complaint that we got on newswatch was that when the video was repeated of the prime ministers the booing seems to be harder to hear. why the difference? well, not the first shot that you saw was of jane hill commentating live on thejohnsons arriving. you could hear her reaction instantly, that you can hear quite a lot of booing and a considerable amount, i think she says. the second shot that you saw was from a different camera, we have a number of different cameras filming events like this and they use

what we call a clean feed. so essentially, audio without the commentary on, so without jane hills commentary on in a different position and so just the volume levels were different was up but there was no editing of it, no attempt to censor anything. i think if you watch our coverage in the days following this incidence you'll have seen that we regularly covered the story, we played the clip to the cabinet minister on sunday mornings program. thank you. let's talk to paul. paul, why did you contact newswatch about the coverage of the platinum jubilee? i felt that the bbc coverage really conveyed the impression to viewers that 100% of the public are in favour of the monarchy and we are all going to be out celebrating 70 years of having the same unelected head of state. now, nothing could be further from the truth,

really because in a recent new ugov poll only 62% of the population thought that the monarchy should continue into the future and a majority of 60 odd percent is a majority, but as boris johnson found out earlier this week, it's by no means a resounding majority. the same poll found something like 22% of the population were firmly in favour of having an elected head of state. so, these are big numbers, we are not talking about a fringe of people. i felt that during the hours and hours of coverage of the jubilee events the bbc could have made a bit more of an effort to include some contrary points of viewjust to balance things up a bit. even allowing for the fact that the bbc might say, well, we are covering that platinum jubilee and it was important to cover in the right amount.

you have a concern about the tone as well, don't you? yes. i think at times the tone was rather too deferential for the all public figures deserve respect but i think the level of respect shown was a bit excessive. 0n the other hand, other times it was a bit gushing. i think as we have the right to expect the bbcjournalists will act in a slightly detached way when they are reporting on these matters and be a bit more objective. thank you. richard, can you address his points? especially the idea that you expect bbcjournalist to have a bit of detachment, they didn't. did they? i don't think that's fair. it was a major moment of national significance, i don't think you can argue about that. it was a significant story, our head

of state being on the throne for longer than any other monarch, this was a moment to reflect on that, to reflect on the reign, to consider the future, yes, to represent the celebrations that were going on. but also to represent with paul was saying is that not everybody feels the same way about the monarchy and we did reflect that within our coverage as well. it's interesting that there were some viewers complaining about whether it was appropriate to have republican points of view during the coverage. i think it's appropriate to reflect that point of view. but i think it's also incumbent upon us to show that there was an awful lot ofjoy around over that weekend and i don't it's right that we should be poker—faced about it. of course we need to reflect that but at the same time not get carried away. i don't think tony's right. personally, i thought we did get the tone right. but it was a bit gushing at time. i don't think so.

i think we used the opportunity to put the monarchy into contaxt, i think we considered issues around it, we consider the future, we considered what will happen after the queen is gone. she is extremely popular, but what about the next generation? so, no, i think we reflected the celebration but we also looked at the wider context. paul, a lot of this coverage was simultaneously broadcast on the news channel as well as bbc one. do you have a you about that? well, i think that one channels worth of coverage is enough. i'm not denying that this is a major event and did warrant a significant amount of coverage. but i do feel that it was pretty much one—way traffic. i mean, there was very little representation of any other point of view. there was other news happening as well, wasn't there? indeed, yeah. richard, the trouping of the colour, the thanksgiving service

in the pageant all went out in full on the news channel as well as on bbc one. where were people supposed to go for news? i don't think it would've been a good use of licence fee money to try recreate event coverage, and that was the event of the weekend that was going on bbc one. i don't think we did entirely simulcast, certainly not around the pageant, we did break out for other news as well. i think it's a major event, we come back to that. i think people would expect that the bbc news channel is covering a major event in the uk as it happens. thank you richard burgess and thank you paul bedwell. thank you for all your comments this week. if you want to share your opinions about what you see or hear on the bbc news on tv, radio, online and social media e—mail newswatch. you can find us on twitter. you can call us and do have a look at our website for previous interviews. that's all from us, we will be back

to hear your thoughts about bbc news coverage again next week. goodbye. the weather this weekend is looking very decent for many of us. in very decent for many of us. fact plenty of studies i: the in fact plenty of studies bills on the way. it will be quite windy at times and a few showers in the forecast too, particularly across northwestern areas. that's what's happening to the course of chennai, northern ireland and scotland gets plenty of showers, especially in the western aisles, windy around close the further south and east you are, the further south and east you are, the clearer the weather will be. temperatures whether you are north or south or sing on saturday would be more or less the same, 12 degrees. the forecast for saturday, lots of sunshine from the word go across england and wales. the possibility of one or two showers but most will be in northern ireland and scotland, much fresher here as well, around the mid teens, the

warmer weather will be further east and south that you are. the low 20s. sunday, the winds will be lighter on sunday, the winds will be lighter on sunday and it will feel as a result a little bit warmer.

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