cameras the way they re talking about digital cameras! at least they ll get old one day, i suppose. it ll happen to all of us? i m afraid that s all we ve got time for. full length version of the programme can be found on iplayer. thanks for watching. we ll see you soon. hello and welcome to newswatch with me, samira ahmed. coming up, the bbc gets it from both sides as it reports on the third anniversary of the uk leaving the european union. and an expert review says bbc news needs to brush up its coverage of economics. i ll be talking to the author of a new report. a lot of numbers have been thrown around this week, including a welter of economic statistics, which is a subject we ll come back to later. this week also saw the 100th day of rishi sunak s premiership on thursday. and the day before that, it was the third anniversary of the uk leaving the eu. love it or loathe it, brexit is three years old. it s still in its infancy, but the economy does appear to have taken a hi
on tuesday, news bulletins revisited a long running and distressing investigation into the hillsborough stadium disaster. almost 3a years after the hillsborough disaster, police forces in england and wales have issued an apology for the way officers treated the families of the victims, and they have promised a cultural change. having watched the report that followed, viewer heather lunt sent us this response. some viewers contacted us this week about a report on the cost of living, which featured recently on the six and the ten o clock news. it was introduced like this. rising prices are affecting everyone, but it s being felt more in the north than the south of the country. that s according to new research. the centre for cities think tank says the impact of the cost of living crisis is significantly higher in blackburn and burnley, for example, than in cambridge and london. it says the disparity was down to the higher proportion of poorly insulated housing in the north and
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but i am pleased to say that i m joined on the line from oxford by one of the review s co authors, sir andrew dilnot. so what were your key findings? did anything surprise you? so our key findings were, well, firist of all, i say that we spoke we spoke to a very large number of people both inside and outside the organisation. and we deliberately spoke to people who we thought would be critical as well as supportive, but without exception, everyone we spoke to said what a great thing they thought bbc was, how lucky we were to live in a country where such an organisation existed, even those who had serious concerns about particular aspects of what the journalism had been in this area. so that s the important thing to say first. like any assessment, it s easy to focus just on the negatives, but there was a lot of positive. the areas where we had concern were not that it seemed that overall the bbc s output in this area was biased either to the right or to the left, but that there were are
did anything surprise you? so our key findings were, well, firist of all, i say that we spoke we spoke to a very large number of people both inside and outside the organisation. and we deliberately spoke to people who we thought would be critical as well as supportive, but without exception, everyone we spoke to said what a great thing they thought bbc was, how lucky we were to live in a country where such an organisation existed, even those who had serious concerns about particular aspects of what the journalism had been in this area. so that s the important thing to say first. like any assessment, it s easy to focus just on the negatives, but there was a lot of positive. the areas where we had concern were not that it seemed that overall the bbc s output in this area was biased either to the right or to the left, but that there were areas where we thought the coverage wasn t impartial between the arguments that should have been in play. we thought there are a few reasons for that. i