who might not be on - the royal rota system. chris, what do you think about that? is that the case? do you feel the bbc and other you know, the big players? i m not saying you re not a big player, but you know what i mean. did they get better access? and also, you know, where do you stand on putting a critical voice in? would you put a republican voice in your packages? i mean, i wrote a story today about a yougov opinion poll which shows that support for the monarchy has declined dramatically in the past ten years since the queen s diamond jubilee, particularly, and i think probably worryingly for the institution of monarchy or the firm, as meghan famously called it in her 0prah interview, is that young people are as much likely to support a republic and elected head of state as they are to support the monarchy. something like 33% for one, 31% for another. are we critical? well, look at some of the stories in recent years. prince andrew. were we critical of what happened there? yes. w
with people like chris and organisations like itv news and we don t get sort of favours in that front and that means we can be as critical. i mean, look, laura, i mean, i think you ve got you make a very good point. i think part of the problem is the age and affection of the sovereign. i think part of the problem is that, as chris says, it s an upbeat story. and it s seen as a sort of happy end point for a lot of bulletins, particularly tv. and i think part of the problem is a classification problem, which is if you are republican and i totally get this, if you are a republican, you see nearly every royal story as a political story and you think, where is the counter voice? actually, i think most royal stories are more like sports stories, and we don t go out and do stories about how most people don t care about the world cup or lots of people don t care about the world cup. we just cover it. and so that for me is a sort of structural problem in the argument about criticism. 0k.
as this is interesting, it s a good point to bring in dan walker, who s sport and news all in one. you know, you ve obviously met various royals on breakfast. how do you view the line the bbc and perhaps other broadcasters walk when it comes to covering the royal family? it s a really interesting why it s been fascinating to chris, tojohnny, and to laura on that as well. i mean, i ve made one of those documentaries that johnny was talking about there. i spent quite a bit of time with prince william on a documentary about mental health, and i ve also covered a lot of royal stories like jubilees and various members of the royal family as well. the one thing that i often think about is, is that issue of of balance. and i listened to whatjohnny said there about the way we cover sport, and that s a really good point. but i think sometimes, for example, in my old job at bbc breakfast, we would regularly practice for a category 0ne death. you know, you do the obit procedure to make sure that
fantastic. well, dan walker, thank you. dan will be on channel 5 at 5pm, weekdays from monday, june 6th. but don t go away though, dan, because i want to stay on the subject of news and with thejubilee taking centre stage from many of our broadcasters, specifically royal news and how it s covered. chris shipp is the royal editorfor itv news. jonny diamond, one of the bbc s royal correspondents. and laura clancy, author of running the family firm, is also here. laura is also a lecturer in media and sociology at lancaster university. and, johnny, as we ve been hearing so much about the brilliant people at the bbc, let s come to you first. you know, you ve been a washington correspondent, you ve been a europe correspondent, you re now a royal correspondent. is it the same job in terms of how you do it? i mean, i think the core of it isjust about the same. you know, it s about finding stuff out and setting it in context and explaining it and doing that in an interesting way. and it has the
but don t go away though, dan, because i want to stay on the subject of news and with thejubilee taking centre stage from many of our broadcasters, specifically royal news and how it s covered. chris shipp is the royal editorfor itv news. jonny diamond, one of the bbc s royal correspondents. and laura clancy, author of running the family firm, is also here. laura is also a lecturer in media and sociology at lancaster university. and, johnny, as we ve been hearing so much about the brilliant people at the bbc, let s come to you first. you know, you ve been a washington correspondent, you ve been a europe correspondent, you re now a royal correspondent. is it the same job in terms of how you do it? i mean, i think the core of it isjust about the same. you know, it s about finding stuff out and setting it in context and explaining it and doing that in an interesting way. and it has the great advantage of being sort of full of colour and history. and so doing it in an interesting way is pe