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Inside Inside Sport

• Amanda Farnsworth
• 13 Apr 07, 01:10 PM

I've written an entry on the Sport Editors' blog about the new sports news programme we're launching soon.

You can read and comment on it here.

Amanda Farnsworth is editor of Inside Sport.

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Sensitive events

• Kevin Bakhurst
• 13 Apr 07, 11:08 AM

There's been some discussion in the papers about the access given to broadcasters when the bodies of the four British soldiers were flown home yesterday. Not all of it is accurate.

The 大象传媒 - like Sky and ITV News - treat these sad events very seriously and we try to cover them in an appropriate tone and with the prominence and time they deserve. Yesterday, the Ministry of Defence denied the broadcasters access to film the arrival ourselves and instead provided their own recorded footage soon after the event. This seems to be an increasing trend at the Ministry to try to control what is filmed at sensitive events.

There is no dispute over the quality of the footage, which was fine and we still devoted considerable time to the ceremony. However, we would have liked to cover it more fully as it happened and we have done this in the past. The Ministry of Defence says that they wanted to do it in this way to safeguard the privacy of the families. However, in the past we have always respected the wishes of the families absolutely at this desperately difficult time.

Kevin Bakhurst is controller of 大象传媒 News

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大象传媒 in the news, Friday

• Host
• 13 Apr 07, 10:01 AM

Independent: Dominic Lawson takes issue with Professor Jeffrey Sachs' Reith Lecture ()
Daily Mail: Broadcasters were not allowed to film coffins arriving at RAF Lyneham but instead were supplied footage filmed by the MoD. ()
Guardian: Polly Toynbee says the 大象传媒's reporting of the sale of sailors' stories "follows the tabloid frenzy without investigating tabloid behaviour". ()

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