welcome to the first newswatch of 2024 with me, samira ahmed. coming up in our round up of your comments on bbc news coverage the row over how the bbc reported on the resignation of harvard university s president in the united states. and was the removal of a christmas tree from the bbc bbc news studio premature? happy new year. darts tournaments don t normally feature on news bulletins, but this wednesday was an exception when that night s news at ten ten started, the progress of 16 year old luke littler to the world championships had just finished with defeat to luke humphries in the final. natalie perks was the reporter on the spot at alexandra palace.
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we put those criticisms to bbc news, and they sent us this response. now, is it legitimate for the bbc to broadcast bad language when it s quoting words used by a public figure and those words are the essence of a controversy? it s a question we ve covered before on newswatch, and it cropped up again this week after tuesday morning s today programme on radio four, during which mishal hussain asked the home secretary, james cleverly, about what he did or did not say in parliament in november. now, we are going to bleep out the terms used, but the today programme didn t. there was the personal place you referred to in
natalie pirks was the reporter on the spot at alexandra palace. well, it s not only the smell of two weeks worth of beer soaked carpet that s in the air here tonight. a certain 16 year old could become the youngest world champion in darts history here tonight. oh, and he d be half a million pounds better off, too. for sally smith, the bbc s coverage failed to hit the bullseye. but it was a score of 184 skippy 561. not so special forjohn lister. now, last month, the heads of three top colleges in the united states appeared before a hearing of the us congress to face questions about their response to incidents
with the same headline. there was a swift and angry backlash on social media to that interpretation of her departure, and a community note was added to the post on x reading. claudine gay. at harvard, does calling for the genocide a community note is publicly shown according to access to potentially misleading posts when enough contributors from different points of view rate. points of view rate a note helpful. the bbc then deleted its post and replaced the headline on its website, although it still featured a phrase objected to by the former bbc north america editorjon sopel. others were equally unimpressed, such as heidi bachram. and capitalbard added.