15/10/2011 Newswatch

Welcome to Newswatch mac. MPs return to Parliament and straight

into a classic scandal story. Liam Fox has resigned. It comes after a

week of speculation about his relationship with his friend, Adam

Werritty. In his resignation letter key said he had mistakenly allowed

the distinction between his personal interest and his

government activity to become bored. The consequences of this have

become clear in recent days. I am very sorry for this. One dealer

Cynicism is a charge that has been levelled at the BBC a few times in

the past few weeks. Not just by a You are losing elections across the

piece. You are at record lows. You think that in a few years' time

that will change. Why is that not wishful thinking? I think you

sometimes come to our conference hoping that we will all be

miserable, defeated and afflicted. By it was Lynne Featherstone. Other

Liberal Democrats agreed with her. Jeremy Paxman gathered a group of

them together for a debate on Newsnight. My question is to the

most powerful unelected and unaccountable person's here, Jeremy.

Do you genuinely believe that a simplistic, confrontational and

simplistic approach to the scrutiny of government provides the public

with a transparent window on the nature of the mature debate within

the party and the Government on the serious complex issues that we face

today? APPLAUSE I will tell you one big

difference, I am not asking the public for their votes. One

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-- are the charges of cynicism and Are these charges fair? Joining me

to answer that is Sue Inglish, the BBC's Head of political programmes.

The theme running through all of this debate seems to be that the

coverage is unremitting plane negative. Is there any truth in

this? It is a perfectly reasonable question to ask and I am happy to

answer it. To start off with, both of the clubs that you played are

both worth watching again. -- clubs. It was perfectly legitimate for

James to ask that question. When we did that report, when that exchange

with Lynne Featherstone was featured, that was part of an eight

minute belt on the Six o'clock News. The first part of that was all

about the state of the economy. I don't think the retort was negative.

He did ask legitimate questions about the party. On Jeremy Paxman

and his encounter with the Liberal Democrat delegate, I loved that

encounter and I think everyone did. Jeremy is Jeremy. He is provocative.

He tried to get people to react. That certainly got a reaction from

the audience. People can be a bit po-faced about this. He did not

show that, but he went on to introduce Peter Bone, a

Conservative MP, someone who had come to the Liberal Democrat

Conference, and the audience booed him. In terms of mature debate, we

can get a bit too serious. Another point that the viewers make is that

all reporters love to foment debate. The following argument is that the

affairs of Theresa May's cat may have been entertaining but it

obscured other issues. I would absolutely dispute that we focused

on all of the disputes. There were a number of serious policies that

we covered. The economy overshadowed nearly all of the

conferences. However, I don't think you can dispute that there is a

debate about human rights legislation that is absolutely

exemplified by the discussion over the issue that the cat and what

role it had or had not played in the decision to allow somebody to

stay in this country. Last week we heard about the cuts the BBC is

facing. In terms of the party conferences, budgets have been cut

in half. Programmes like Newsnight will not be able to broadcast live

from the conferences. Argue concerned at party conferences are

being downplayed in the future by the BBC? Let's get this clear, what

we have said is that we will continue to do the range of news

coverage that we have always done from party conferences. There will

still be full coverage on BBC Parliament. They will be news

coverage on bulletins. One of the things that cost a lot of money is

providing the technical infastructure and people to allow a

big programmes to be broadcast, particularly to present from the

conferences. We are not saying that we cannot broadcast from the

conferences, the coverage will be available, what we are saying is

that we can save significant amounts of money by reducing the

facilities we offer for programmes to present from there. That does

not mean we will not cover the conferences and it does not mean we

are downgrading them in any way. All week, BBC bulletins have been

reporting the trial of Vincent Tabak who admits to the

manslaughter of Joanna Yeates but denies her murder. The jury was led

into the garden flat where Jo Yeates lived and fear it is claimed

she was murdered. Many things left just as they were last December

when she was killed one week before Christmas. One reviewer was in

Last Saturday was a big day for British and Irish rugby fans when

England, Ireland and Wales all played in the quarter-finals.

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Although the latter won and the Cymru am byth, for the uninitiated,

means of whales forever. We thought we would start an

occasional slot in which viewers can discuss what they think is

money being wasted. Maybe we will pass them on to the women just

appointed as the transformation engagement dash mac. There was a

feature about the so-called comedy carpet in Blackpool. It paid

tribute to hundreds of famous comedians. It was it on the news.

It was then taken over by a Please give was your own examples

together with comments on what you have seen on the news or on

Newswatch. Last week, be featured criticism often interviewed Jeremy

Paxman did that Boris Johnson. Here is another taste of it. What is the

relationship between you and David Cameron Gresham what I am the Mayor