The BBC has been criticized for the so called Jade Fest on Sunday as it led many of its news bulletins with the demise of Jade Goody.
What came in for particular criticism was that it led on Radio 4,for some the monolith of quality news.
So was the BBC setting the news agenda or having it set for them?
Horrocks defends the critics by saying that
the circumstances were that the early part of Sunday was relatively quiet - when, later, Ken Clarke made his comments on inheritance tax, many parts of the BBC News output then led on that story.
Some have written that Gordon Brown must have been quite happy about the timing of her death as it took the Paul McNulty second home scandal out of the early bulletins.
Horrock defends the decision on the grounds of internet traffic
We know that from the statistics that we have on a minute-by-minute basis from the news website that many more people visited than normally would on a Sunday - and the Jade Goody story was overwhelmingly the most popular story.
Is that the purpose of the BBC?
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Tricky isn't it, because if they hadn't given it much coverage, there would almost certainly have been an equal outcry (70 people is not really a torrent of complaints - yet!) that the BBC was being stuffy, snobbish and out of touch with the people who pay for the BBC by not reporting what for practically every other media outlet was the leading story of the day
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