Now it is time for the turn of newswatch with samira ahmed looking at the role of language in news headlines. Hello and welcome to the first newswatch of 2017 with me, samira ahmed, where well be rounding up some of the comments youve made about bbc news since we went off air before christmas. Coming up jill saward died this week, but should the bbc news website have described her in its headline as a campaigner rather than as a victim . And the year of Celebrity Deaths ended with several more, including that of George Michael. Did the bbc lose perspective over the extent of its coverage . First, the new year has brought no respite from the Terrorist Attacks that have become a regular feature of news broadcasts. On sunday came the latest atrocity, targeting those enjoying a night out at the reina nightclub in istanbul. News reader less than two hours into the new year, a gunman opened fire outside, Bullets Ricocheting as he shot a policeman and a civilian. Another camera showed people
Coverage which did appear was the new years honours list. Much of the focus was on sports stars, as described by andy swiss, and pop stars and actors, reported on by lizo mzimba. At the end of a glittering yearfor british sport, for five of its greatest stars the greatest of honours. Patricia routledge has been made a dame. Kinks frontman ray davis said he felt humility and joy to become sir ray. Victoria beckham becomes an obe for services to the fashion industry. Anthony hainsworth took exception to the balance of the reporting, writing on new years eve. And Celebrity Culture was at the heart of another series of complaints on whats sadly become a very familiar theme in 2016. Heres the start of bbc ones late bulletin on christmas day. Hello, good evening. In the last hour the death has been announced of the singer George Michael. He was 53. George michael shot to fame in the 1980s as half of the band wham and went on to have a hugely successful solo career. He sold more than 80 milli
context within okay, you can hear me again. yes. so as we re watching these pictures, give as you sense because many of us that are watching, those viewers who are watching may not have been to istanbul and it,turkey. give us a sense of what it is like there. security levels, generally speaking. and then what area of town this is. so this is a part of town that is on the bosters directly and is a very popular area with a lot of tourists, a lot of night goers. the night club itself, as i was saying earlier before we were cut off, it one of those warehouse type of night clubs in the sense that it can easily accommodate up to a thousand people, multiple floors, it s a
to go after the terrorists. so it s all a very fascinating circumstance, and, you know, security will certainly ramp up here in the united states and around the rest of the around t rest of the world as new year s has rung in he but we shouldn t have should have expected something occurred somewhere. malcolm, stand by for that. nbc s matt bradley is still with us, too. you out of london are trying to get the latest information as well. are you hearing anything new. not a this very moment, but i wanted to build on what malcolm said. turkey and istanbul sits at the center of so many geopolitical cross-currents. it s when we go about the
year. turkey is certainly istanbul is a very, very cosmopolitan place, these are very western-oriented people. they take their associations with the european union and the people who are workers in germany and their extended families and they view themselves as a completely different outlier within the muslim. so whoever did this attack understood that and they went right to a place which is soft, which would have no real security and came in there and carried out a mass murder. whether, you know, how turkey respond to this will be just as interesting. because we ve seen some of their the attacks that have occurred, they ve used them as political leverage to crack down on people that they view as political opponents as opposed