Speeches by Hinds.

“Do you think the corporation has what you might call a “bigger truth” problem—that there is a bigger truth that the vast majority of BBC output is good, and therefore it is less important when something is misleading? Or that, on this specific episode of “Panorama”, there was a bigger truth the programme was trying to …”

“To go back to the splicing, in his “sacred job” memo to us, Dr Shah mentions that since your memo, Mr Prescott, the corporation has had 500 complaints, which has prompted “further reflection.” As a result of that further reflection, the BBC now accepts that the splice gave the impression of “a direct call for violent a…”

“They are totally empowered to do it, aren’t they? It takes money—I grant you that.”

“On prominence, there are two different ways that you can find things: you can either have them shown to you or you can go looking for them. We have talked about prominence so far today in terms of being shown stuff. It occurs to me that when we were kids, on telly it was the case that BBC One and Two and ITV were prefe…”

“Sorry—that is pushing again. I am not arguing against pushing. Pushing absolutely has a role, but so does pulling, and in most consumer markets you have both. Shelf placement is important in a supermarket, but so is the brand advertising that makes you want to seek out that particular brand of soap powder. I guess my q…”

“Do we know numbers on whole-family viewing?”

“I’m worrying unnecessarily, Chair.”

“Do you think so?”

“Does Saturday night family entertainment exist and work in the same way that it used to?”

“My last question will be on bonding. Although we are here to talk about children’s television, I want to talk about general family television. You spoke about the importance of doing things together, and we also touched earlier on the growing trend over a number of years for children to have their own device to watch t…”

“It is very difficult to establish a direct line of causality—as it always is with these things—but do you feel that there is some connection between the consumption of this kind of media and some of those issues?”

“It will be interesting to hear what both of you hear from your interactions with people in the world of education and so on. Anecdotally, people talk about there now being issues with spans of attention for children—presenting in year R—and with being able to sit still. There are also more children presenting with spec…”

“That was not what I was asking about though. On parental controls, you rightly talked about the complexity, and I think it is even more complex than you said, because it is one thing to be controlling YouTube, but most parents are also trying to control Apple, Microsoft, some AI programme, and at least one, or possibly…”

“Frank, can I ask you about your Sheffield speech—particularly what you were saying about early years development and the exposure of very young children to flashing imagery and very fast-moving content? Do you think there should be guidance from the health service or the Department for Education that says, “Do not expo…”

“What has it done it with?”

“I totally agree with that, and as I say, I am not arguing against push placement, but there is another way of looking at it. You can say, “We need to be wherever the kids are”—it is a ubiquity strategy—but you could also say, “Actually, no. Some of our content is going to exclusively available on our owned channels. If…”

“There are plenty of other ways of reaching children as well, of course. “Newsround” is shown, as far as I can tell, in many or most primary schools in the country, for example. There is still print advertising. There is billboard advertising. There are all sorts of ways of getting to kids.”

“YouTube take ads.”

“The internet is full of people who think they are in touch with a bigger truth and that it does not matter what happens to all sorts of littler truths along the way in getting that bigger truth across. In his letter to my hon. Friend the Member for Gosport (Dame Caroline Dinenage), the Chair of the Select Committee, Sa…”

“Well, they are watching something.”