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and peter coleman had this suggestion: the ongoing debate about how the bbc should interpret and demonstrate impartiality flared up again last week when emily matliss, who recently left the bbc after 20 years, gave a lecture at the edinburgh television festival. she questioned the bbc s decision to apologise for comments she made on newsnight in 2020 about dominic cummings breaking lockdown rules during the pandemic, which had prompted a complaint from downing street. why had the bbc immediately and publicly sought to confirm the government spokesman s opinion, without any kind of due process? it makes no sense for an organisation that is admirably, famously rigorous about procedure, unless it was perhaps sending a message of reassurance directly to the government itself. put this in the context of the bbc board where another active agent of the conservative party, a former downing street spin doctor and former adviser to bbc rival gb news now sits, acting as the arbiter of b
has covered thejubilee. but in the meantime, here s a couple of contrasting responses to what you ve seen so far. first, from mel writing on thursday. but for alan mccluskey. .. do let us know your thoughts on what is clearly a divisive issue and there ll be details of how to contact us at the end of the programme. meanwhile, there have been equally strong reactions to reporting of the defamation case fought over the past six weeks betweenjohnny depp and his ex wife, amber heard. the verdict from the united states came in time for wednesday s news at ten. do you find that mr depp has proven all the elements of defamation? answer: yes. thejury was unanimous in its verdict. johnny depp took his ex wife to court over an article she wrote which falsely implied he d abused her. a number of viewers told us they thought the prominence given to the verdict in that program and more generally to the case over the past few months was unjustified. here s chris mitchell. since when, has a
A number of viewers contacted us, concerned not by that brief and unscheduled appearance from chris mason at the start there, but by what the bbc s Political Editor and Presenterjane Hill were doing in edinburgh in the first place. Theres already a Scotland Editor for bbc news, james cook, and he was on the spot and reporting on the story too, and joining chris and jane in a discussion about the implications of humza yousef s resignation. Amanda thomas was one of those asking this question was it really asking this question. Well, Mary Jane Wright also got in touch with us and we can now speak to her. Hello, mary jane. Thank you for coming on newswatch. What did you object to about the bbc s coverage of this story . Well, mainly was what your correspondents have just said. Is that what it really necessary to send chris mason and jane hill there . The bbc in scotland have excellent reporters. They know the area extremely well and they live there. Chris mason and jane hill are very good.
It looks like the migrants who did get onto that boat are in trouble. But as we watch, we have no idea that people on board are dying, including a seven year old girl. Andrew harding there. But did the bbc team have any impact on what happened on that beach on Tuesday Morning . Andrew smith thought so. Meanwhile, Linda Draycott had. Well, some insight into those questions was given by another reporter who was also on a beach in Northern France on Tuesday Morning tom symonds. He spoke to newscast later that day. This is a 70 kilometer coastline here. Its very hard to know where these boats are going from. And we just got lucky. So the boats did come and people ran across and jumped into it and the police seemed to come at us and say, you knew that this was going to happen. And they took our ids and they were quite angry, really. And so i think they were thinking that somehow wed done a deal with the migrants to film them leaving. We absolutely didnt. And we wouldnt do that. We wanted to