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Viewers irked at BBC's Jackson coverage


July 02, 2009 The BBC has defended its coverage of pop singer Michael Jackson's death after nearly 750 viewers complained that the pubcaster had given too much airtime to the topic. Writing on a BBC News blog, BBC Newsroom editor Mary Hockaday said that Jackson had been "a huge figure internationally and BBC News went into gear to report a big breaking news story." The BBC covered the singer's death extensively all day Friday on its rolling news channel BBC News and led with the story on all its news bulletins, as well as ripping up evening schedules so that it could air a half-hour BBC News special in primetime on BBC1.

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