Canada. 2016 olympics, three runners were all trans that won first, second and third. it was like the 800 meter eww, there s water on my phone. is everything okay? greg: it s interesting all of them and it wasn t news because it was canada. do you know what i m talking about. you don t know what i m talking about. kevin: i ve heard this story before. again canada s first in something. greg: and they have my favorite teacher. kat take us home kat: i think the way we re having this conversation is wrong and not good for anybody. in society. greg: this show is the best conversation arena for anything [cheers and applause]. greg: how dare you. how dare you kat: yeah, especially when you try to say that i m saying something i m not so you can get applause. that really means a lot to me. what i mean is, when we talk about how, you know, people say you can t make jones about trans people, that actually, you know,
Canada. 2016 olympics, three runners were all trans that won first, second and third. it was like the 800 meter eww, there s water on my phone. is everything okay? greg: it s interesting all of them and it wasn t news because it was canada. do you know what i m talking about. you don t know what i m talking about. kevin: i ve heard this story before. again canada s first in something. greg: and they have my favorite teacher. kat take us home kat: i think the way we re having this conversation is wrong and not good for anybody. in society. greg: this show is the best conversation arena for anything [cheers and applause]. greg: how dare you. how dare you kat: yeah, especially when you try to say that i m saying something i m not so you can get applause. that really means a lot to me. what i mean is, when we talk about how, you know, people say you can t make jones about trans people, that actually, you know,
First. the duke and duchess of sussex were back in the news on wednesday and not for the first time prompted a divided response among the audience. a spokesperson for the couple said they had experienced a near catastrophic car chase in new york, the previous night when being pursued by paparazzi. royal correspondent nicholas witchell gave his analysis to sophie raworth on the news at six. well, sophie, clearly something happened, something worrying and i m sure alarming if you were at the centre of it. i think the question is, was it really on the scale and of the seriousness as depicted in this, perhaps rather vivid and breathless statement from the sussexes spokesman. a near catastrophic car chase, a relentless pursuit by a ring of paparazzi lasting for more than two hours. that doesn t appear to be being substantiated by what we are now starting to hear from the new york police department. some people thought the bbc
Of the semi finals and the finals, that s what s expected. but i didn t expect it to spill over onto the news channel. for instance, the day before they spent 20 minutes or so just talking to people who are there and saying, are you excited? well, i think they ve chosen to go to liverpool. they were likely to be excited, but that wasn t news and it was the the lead item at 7:00, i think it was about 20 minutes. that is going above and beyond. and i think the statement highlights it, saying it s important for ukraine, eurovision and the bbc. i m, ok, i could have gone elsewhere for the news, but i m used to getting impartial bbc coverage on bbc news channel. absolutely. thank you, deborah. mark, what about your thoughts on the bbc response? again, with the situation in ukraine and obviously the uk supporting ukraine and hosting the events of the competition and within the united kingdom
Yeah. great atmosphere. and on thursday, a synth metal eurovision loving rock. eurovision loving rock god. what s brought you here? you ve told them, haven t you? i ve told them this will be your dream. on friday, jane hill co presented the six and 10:00 news from liverpool tonight at six, the party is under way here in liverpool on the eve of the eurovision song contest, hosting on behalf of ukraine. by saturday afternoon, the imminent start of the final was breaking news on the news channel. it s those two broadcasters working together to deliver what is the best show on planet earth. is it that you re not able to dance to a eurovision classic that is playing in the background? we are talking waterloo and abba here and that s better. you can dance. well, let s see if that sense of excitement was shared by two viewers who contacted us this week, mark bradbury and deborah bardsley. thank you both for coming on. newswatch though, deborah, did all that coverage get you excited about eurovision?
The revenue loss is substantial and it s building. what do you make of it? i think with every loser there s a winner. so as the wealthy evacuate or bolt as you say for the florida, texas, et cetera, i ve been tracking this very carefully, it wasn t news unfortunately to me. i think there s opportunities. who feeds the masses. who feeds the people who are left here in new york city that need to have value? so we have 2 for 25. two people can eat for $25. late night appetizers. neil: so you re talking about applebee s and others. that s you re business. i apologize. neil: your restaurants are crowded. you need that hook to get them. yes. and value is the hook.
In a way they hadn t before. and it problematised an adage that i learned atjournalism school, which was, when a dog bites a man, that s not a story, but when a man bites a dog that is a story. and i started to think, during that time, you know, sometimes, actually, news reside in asking, who owns these dogs and why do the same people keep getting bitten and what can we do to control these dogs? but actually black people had been living with this for decades and it wasn t news because the people who decide what s news decided that it wasn t newsworthy. that was a failure ofjournalism? absolutely a failure ofjournalism. and in a certain moment, for reasons, i m not entirely sure why, it became news, and you wouldn t
And it problematised an adage that i learned atjournalism school, which was, when a dog bites a man, that s not a story, but when a man bites a dog that is a story. and i started to think, during that time, you know, sometimes, actually, news resides in asking, who owns these dogs and why do the same people keep getting bitten and what can we do to control these dogs? but actually black people had been living with this for decades and it wasn t news, because the people who decide what s news decided that it wasn t newsworthy. that was a failure ofjournalism? absolutely a failure of journalism. and in a certain moment, for reasons, i m not entirely sure why, it became news, and you wouldn t have to be black to get this, but if you are black, not typically, not to look at your son, who was big
It was that, for whatever reason, partly it s new technology and who can take pictures and distribute and amplify, people were paying attention in a way they hadn t before. and it problematised an adage that i learned atjournalism school, which was, when a dog bites a man that s not a story, but when a man bites a dog that is a story. and i started to think during that time, you know, sometimes, actually, news resides in asking who owns these dogs? and why do the same people keep getting bitten, and what can we do to control these dogs? that actually, black people had been living with this for decades, and it wasn t news because the people who decide what s news decided that it wasn t newsworthy. that was a failure ofjournalism? i think it was absolutely a failure of news journalism. and for reasons, i m not entirely sure why, it became news.
Thing that happened with black lives matter in particular, which was that it wasn t and it hasn t been that more black people were being killed by the police. it was that, for whatever reason, partly it s new technology and who can take pictures and distribute and amplify, people were paying attention in a way they hadn t before. and it problematised an adage that i learned atjournalism school, which was, when a dog bites a man, that s not a story, but when a man bites a dog that is a story. and i started to think, during that time, you know, sometimes, actually, news reside in asking, who owns these dogs and why do the same people keep getting bitten and what can we do to control these dogs? but actually black people had been living with this for decades and it wasn t news because the people who decide