{"id":437,"date":"2007-05-21T16:13:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-21T22:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/?p=437"},"modified":"2007-05-21T16:13:00","modified_gmt":"2007-05-21T22:13:00","slug":"madeleine-mccann-obeying-the-peoples-will","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/2007\/05\/madeleine-mccann-obeying-the-peoples-will\/","title":{"rendered":"Madeleine McCann: obeying the people&#8217;s will"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcaps\">T<\/span>he <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/blogs\/theeditors\/2007\/05\/too_much_from_portugal_1.html\" target=\"_blank\">note<\/a> from <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">BBC News<\/span> exec <a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" href=\"ttp:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/blogs\/theeditors\/kevin_bakhurst\/\" target=\"_blank\">Kevin Bakhurst<\/a> on the coverage of the <a style=\"font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theherald.co.uk\/news\/news\/display.var.1415045.0.0.php\" target=\"_blank\">Madeleine McCann<\/a> story was headed simply <span style=\"font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;\">Too much from Portugal?<\/span> Bakhurst&#8217;s professional answer is obviously no: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The coverage of Madeleine McCann continues to cause debate and discussion, particularly now in some of the newspapers. This is something of course that we spend a lot of time talking about within BBC News and it does pose us some dilemmas.<\/p>\n<p>Firstly some facts: even now as we move into the third week since Madeleine&#8217;s disappearance, the story is still resulting in very high news audiences. This isn&#8217;t always the decisive measure but it does seem to represent a high level of interest from the audience. Secondly, the number of complaints to the audience log at the BBC over the amount of coverage are still at a low level: yesterday, there were ten complaints.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> A very modern, defensive re-phrasing of a position laid down seventy years ago by <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zpub.com\/sf\/history\/willh.html\" target=\"_blank\">William Randolph Hearst<\/a><\/span>, when he wrote: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I believe that the people\u2019s will should be obeyed. Moreover I believe that the majority decision is essentially right. Those who differ with it should study the situation themselves and find out wherein THEY are wrong.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>How wrong we are&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The note from BBC News exec Kevin Bakhurst on the coverage of the Madeleine McCann story was headed simply Too much from Portugal? Bakhurst&#8217;s professional answer is obviously no: The coverage of Madeleine McCann continues to cause debate and discussion, particularly now in some of the newspapers. This is something of course that we spend [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[265],"class_list":["post-437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journalism","tag-journalism-values"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}