:00:03. > :00:13.week, as coverage of the Joanna Yeates murder trial been intrusive
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:00:27. > :00:31.Welcome to Newswatch. Complaints this week from you might say each
:00:31. > :00:34.end of the spectrum. We look at stories viewers think received two-
:00:34. > :00:38.match a detailed attention and some other stories which viewers felt
:00:38. > :00:41.were not covered by BBC News nearly enough.
:00:41. > :00:45.Still making headlines this week, the trial of Vincent Tabak who
:00:45. > :00:50.admits the manslaughter of Joanna Yeates in December last year. He
:00:50. > :00:55.denies her murder. Here is part of the report on the trial.
:00:55. > :01:03.10 months after he killed Jo Yeates, Vincent Tabak came to offer his
:01:03. > :01:06.story. Her boyfriend joined her parents and her brother in a packed
:01:06. > :01:10.court room. On last week's programme we had
:01:10. > :01:15.some beers objection to the BBC showing footage of the inside of
:01:15. > :01:18.the victim's flat. This week, further complaints. Elizabeth
:01:18. > :01:28.Smears wrote that she finds the headline news and some of the
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:01:49. > :01:54.As the BBC's reporting of the trial been disproportionate and
:01:54. > :01:59.intrusive? I am joined by one of the BBC's most senior journalists,
:01:59. > :02:05.James Stevenson, editor of both the 6pm and 10pm news and the Johanna
:02:05. > :02:09.Paxton, eight BBC the US. What did you not like about the
:02:09. > :02:13.trial coverage? We are only reporting what was said in open
:02:13. > :02:17.court? I think they are a few points I want to make about the
:02:17. > :02:22.coverage. The first was why this particular case was receiving so
:02:22. > :02:27.much attention? The other. Us warily to do with the content and
:02:27. > :02:32.the use of what I thought were bolder headlines -- vulgar
:02:32. > :02:36.headlines. I fail to see how it is informed reporting. I also want to
:02:36. > :02:41.know why the BBC was resorting to this kind of sensational and
:02:41. > :02:47.gratuitous reporting? It is what one might normally find in a
:02:47. > :02:53.tabloid newspaper. You us to bring to gratuitous tabloid reporting.
:02:53. > :02:57.do not think we are. We recognise it is a difficult and unusual case.
:02:58. > :03:02.Today the first of your points, Joanna, a white as this case got
:03:02. > :03:06.coverage where others haven't is a good one. It is one we have been
:03:06. > :03:09.asking ourselves. The nature of her story and that she was leading an
:03:09. > :03:14.ordinary life and that it happened to her, it has connected beyond the
:03:14. > :03:17.way some other cases do. I would like to come on to the point you
:03:17. > :03:21.make about the style of the reporting because I do not think we
:03:21. > :03:28.have stooped to lower standards of reporting than we have done
:03:29. > :03:32.elsewhere and certainly for the 6pm and 10pm news, we have used
:03:32. > :03:36.experienced correspondents, based in Bristol. We have tried to
:03:36. > :03:41.balance the enormity of the public interest with sensitivity about the
:03:41. > :03:48.case. Hard as it is to believe, there were more grisly details that
:03:48. > :03:55.the court has heard... That is in open court so publicly stated...
:03:55. > :03:59.Can I ask whether it when covering a trial like this do you make any
:03:59. > :04:04.distinction between what you report at 6pm when children might be
:04:04. > :04:08.watching and what you put in the 10pm news? We think about it. The
:04:08. > :04:13.6pm news has a peculiar status because it is before the watershed
:04:13. > :04:16.but it is also an adult news programme. If you look in the BBC
:04:16. > :04:19.guidelines, you will see that there is some accommodation made for the
:04:19. > :04:23.fact that it is an unusual programme dealing with adult
:04:23. > :04:28.content before the watershed. That still means quite fine judgements
:04:28. > :04:34.about what we think is acceptable to a teatime audience as opposed to
:04:34. > :04:42.a later audience. What do you make of what you have heard? I can hear
:04:42. > :04:48.his. So clearly. It reminded me of the comment made by a family who
:04:48. > :04:53.said that their own daughter had been forgotten in the hype that
:04:53. > :04:57.surrounded the case. I wonder whether that is happening here in
:04:57. > :05:03.the media hype around the trial of Vincent Tabak. I certainly hope not.
:05:03. > :05:09.It is a point worth making. Hardly taking trouble and are we clear to
:05:09. > :05:14.preserve her humanity -- are we taking trouble? As the trial goes
:05:14. > :05:20.on, we will certainly bear that in mind. Johanna Paxton, thank you for
:05:20. > :05:24.joining us from Bristol. James Stevenson, thank you.
:05:24. > :05:29.Reports into the tragic death of British IndyCar private Dan Wheldon
:05:30. > :05:34.appeared on many BBC outlets at the start of the week. Be they did
:05:34. > :05:39.three-year-old was described by Lewis Hamilton as talented and
:05:39. > :05:44.inspirational. He was killed on Sunday at a race in Las Vegas. This
:05:44. > :05:49.package by Alastair Leithead was showed the next day.
:05:49. > :05:53.Dan Wheldon was racing for a $5 million prize, starting at the back,
:05:53. > :05:58.he had to overtake every other IndyCar in the race. He was fast
:05:58. > :06:02.moving up the field when this happened. The report went on to
:06:02. > :06:05.show Dan Wheldon's car hitting a wall and bursting into flames
:06:05. > :06:10.before it was aired, viewers were warned that it contained
:06:10. > :06:20.distressing images. However they you have got in touch to make this
:06:20. > :06:36.
:06:36. > :06:40.From complaints of too much coverage, to too little. Thailand
:06:40. > :06:44.is suffering its worst floods in half-a-century. Volunteers and
:06:44. > :06:48.soldiers are desperately working to strengthen flood defences to stop
:06:48. > :06:52.water reaching parts of the capital Bangkok. At least till hundred and
:06:52. > :06:56.70 people have died in the devastation since July. Since do
:06:56. > :07:01.floodwaters -- facts do floodwaters, tens of thousands of people have
:07:02. > :07:11.been forced from their homes. Kevin Jennings wrote to us in disbelief
:07:12. > :07:19.
:07:19. > :07:23.that the disaster was not receiving Protesters have been gathered near
:07:23. > :07:29.Wall Street for more than a month and in the last week they have
:07:29. > :07:33.assembled in the UK and countries across the globe. It all started on
:07:33. > :07:36.17th September with a small group of activists gathering close to New
:07:36. > :07:40.York's financial heartland, Wall Street. It has swelled to several
:07:40. > :07:43.thousand people at times with dozens of arrests being made. The
:07:43. > :07:50.campaign, broadly known as Occupy Wall Street, has attracted people
:07:50. > :07:54.from thousands of miles away, many holding signs like, tax the rich,
:07:54. > :07:58.and against corporate greed. On Saturday, demonstrators inspired by
:07:58. > :08:02.them set up camp outside St Paul's Cathedral in London. After an
:08:02. > :08:06.earlier attempt to occupy a Square outside the London Stock Exchange
:08:06. > :08:11.was halted by police, they went to St Paul's. Many wrote to complain
:08:11. > :08:15.that the BBC was slow off the mark to report the progress. Even when
:08:15. > :08:25.coverage of the global protest picked up, it was too little too
:08:25. > :08:28.
:08:28. > :08:36.Another dealer, Rachel Cadman, based another concern. By covering
:08:36. > :08:39.August riots more commonly than the peaceful protest, could the BBC be
:08:39. > :08:43.fuelling protesters did go to extreme lengths to get noticed?
:08:43. > :08:48.we cannot get it together so that we encourage people to protest
:08:48. > :08:52.peacefully, it it makes a protesters say, if you want to get
:08:52. > :08:55.your voice at, you have to go to an illegal extreme that is anti-social
:08:55. > :08:58.and horrible. So smaller demonstrations have also taken
:08:58. > :09:03.place across the UK and other cities including in Bristol,
:09:03. > :09:13.Birmingham, Glasgow and Edinburgh. It is these protest that Robin
:09:13. > :09:36.
:09:36. > :09:40.What is BBC News's answer to complaints of a lack of coverage?
:09:40. > :09:44.According to a statement we were given, the Occupy Wall Street
:09:44. > :09:48.demonstrations have been covered across BBC TV, radio and online
:09:48. > :09:53.news during the past month. Last Sunday when protest took place in
:09:53. > :09:57.London, New York and elsewhere, the story featured in all of the main
:09:57. > :10:01.news bulletins on BBC One as well as Radio 4's evening bulletin.
:10:01. > :10:06.There have also been numerous online articles about the campaign
:10:06. > :10:11.and Occupy Bristol has been covered by BBC Radio Bristol and BBC One's
:10:11. > :10:15.points west. Across our coverage, the background to the coverage has
:10:16. > :10:19.been explained and the reporting has deflected the language used by
:10:19. > :10:22.protesters to describe their aims and motives. Last week, we kicked
:10:22. > :10:26.off an occasional slot in which it in the wake of BBC cost-cutting
:10:26. > :10:32.proposals, viewers can point out examples of what they see as money
:10:32. > :10:35.being wasted. Pat Hardy wrote in to highlight what she things are and
:10:35. > :10:45.necessary travel costs from sending weather presenters to different
:10:45. > :10:47.
:10:47. > :10:51.Or do you like to see the BBC weather presenters out and about?
:10:51. > :10:57.Does it enhance the report when the presenter is in a scenic location?
:10:57. > :11:02.If you have strong views, do get in touch to let us note. Finally,
:11:02. > :11:12.Robert Cheer got in touch to ask, why do you insist on broadcasting
:11:12. > :11:19.