, who we re people such as norman tebbit, who were clear in their utter condemnation and loathingorld is a sweeter place, and we we re the world is a sweeter place, and we were clear there was an utter hatred of martin mcguinness, but there was also a reverence for him by others and we had to make sure that this is and we had to make sure that this is a very complex person, hated on one side and laughed on another and we have got to convey that is who he was. the bbc can be accused of being too reverential when it comes to an obituary forfear of too reverential when it comes to an obituary for fear of causing offence. that is a danger of all obituaries, not just the offence. that is a danger of all obituaries, notjust the bbc, you tend to accentuate the positive when people have died, but we tried to be as balance as we could be here, but in principle, it is incredibly important that you convey a person's life with an obituary, notjust a sensitivity towards relatives and the moment that he's died. we had hundreds of complaints from people who are very angry and who said the bbc di

on every programme that we ran in which we had voices of relatives of victims, people such as norman tebbitheir utter condemnation and loading of someone they described as a coward, and that they described as a coward, and that the world is a sweeter place without him. we understood that there was a com plete him. we understood that there was a complete hatred for martin mcguinness by some, and reverence for him by others. we needed to make sure that this was a very complete person who is hated on one side and loved on the other. we had to convey that that was what he was. reverence is an interesting issue here, because when it comes to an obituary cover the bbc can have a tendency to not want to cause offence.” cover the bbc can have a tendency to not want to cause offence. i don't think it is a fear of causing offence. i think it is notjust the bbc. when submitters die, you tend to accentuate the positive. i don't think we did in this case. which are to accentuate the positive. i don't think we did in this case. which are to be as ballast and impartial letter ca n to be as ballast and imp

we've had former tory cabinet ministers like norman tebbit and michael heseltine and michael forsyth, nigel lawson all getting up and taking a very keen interest in all of this. the minister for the government in the last few minutes just winding up the government's argument, saying we will deliver on the vote, we will honour our promise. there's no question that we won't do that. he says the promise is that it ties the hands of ministers going into negotiations, so that result we will get in the next few minutes. 0k, thank you for that. as isa, when we do get the result we will bring it toa do get the result we will bring it to a soon as we can do get the result we will bring it to a soon as we can hear do get the result we will bring it to a soon as we can hear on the bbc news channel but now it is time for sports day. hello, i'm olly foster, these are our sportsday headlines this evening. sir dave brailsford admits that mistakes have been made at team sky but says they are a clean team and doping allegations are false. iamat i am at the emirates for arsenal will have to make champi

every programme, that we ran, we will have had the voices of relatives of victims, people such as norman tebbitlso a reference for him by others, and what we had to do is try and make sure that this was a very complex person, for a number of people, hated on one side, loved on another. —— reverence. we had to convey that was who he was. reverence is a really interesting issue here, isn't it? because when it comes to an obituary, the bbc can be accused of having a tendency to be too reverential for fear of causing offence, because that person has just died. yes, i don't think it is fear of causing offence. it's all obituaries, notjust the bbc. by its very nature, and somebody has just died, you tend to accentuate the positive, and i don't think we were in this case. we try to be as balance as we can be, and as impartial as we can be. but in obituaries, i think it is incredibly important new convey a person's life, notjust a sort of sensitivity towards relatives and the moment that he's died. well, as i said, we've had hundreds of complaints from people who are really very angry. they say the bbc

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