:00:32. > :00:36.Welcome to Newswatch. We look at stories which viewers the received
:00:36. > :00:44.it too much attention and others which the US felt were not covered
:00:44. > :00:47.enough. Still making headlines is the trial of Vincent Tabak who
:00:47. > :00:52.admits to the manslaughter of Joanna Yeates but denies the murder.
:00:52. > :00:59.Our correspondent reports. Ten months after he killed Jo Yeates
:00:59. > :01:02.Vincent Tabak came to of they his story in his own words. Her
:01:02. > :01:08.boyfriend great it joined her parents and her brother in a packed
:01:08. > :01:18.courtroom. On last week's programme we heard
:01:18. > :01:22.objections to the BBC showing pictures of the inside of her flat.
:01:22. > :01:29.This week it a viewer finds some of the images to be voyeuristic and
:01:29. > :01:35.gratuitous. Another thing city is undignified that Joanna's
:01:35. > :01:40.bewilderment and pain should become a temporary soap opera. Another
:01:40. > :01:47.asks if someone could explain how this day more bitter update is more
:01:47. > :01:54.relevant in this case than in other ongoing murder cases. Has the BBC's
:01:54. > :02:04.reporting this reports at and intrusive, as some US thing? A
:02:04. > :02:06.
:02:07. > :02:10.senior journalists joined spin out to discuss this. What you like
:02:10. > :02:16.about the BBC trial coverage? They are any reporting what was said in
:02:17. > :02:22.open court. I wanted to make a few points. Why is this particular case
:02:23. > :02:27.receiving so much attention? The other has to do with the content
:02:27. > :02:32.and the use of what I thought were vulgar head lies. As they have to
:02:32. > :02:37.see how these headlines constitute intelligent reporting. I want to
:02:37. > :02:46.know why the BBC was reporting to this kind of sensational reporting.
:02:46. > :02:52.One might normally find such things in a tabloid newspaper. James, you
:02:53. > :02:57.are stooping to gratuitous tabloid reporting,. We realise this is a
:02:57. > :03:04.difficult case. The first of your points: Why has this case got
:03:04. > :03:08.coverage? It is one we have been asking ourselves. It is the nature
:03:08. > :03:15.of the story. The fact that she was leading an ordinary life and this
:03:15. > :03:19.happened to her. The point about the style of the reporting. I do
:03:19. > :03:28.not think we stick to lower standards than we would have done
:03:28. > :03:34.elsewhere. Set any venues is by a very experienced correspondent
:03:34. > :03:39.based in Bristol. He has tried to balance the enormity of the public
:03:39. > :03:44.interest with sensitivity about the case. There were more grisly
:03:44. > :03:54.details which the court have heard. That is in open court. Publicly
:03:54. > :03:55.
:03:55. > :04:00.stated. Are you an editor out of both the 6pm and 10pm news. You are.
:04:00. > :04:06.He make any distinction between what you report earlier when
:04:06. > :04:11.children may be watching than later? We think about it. The 6pm
:04:11. > :04:15.news has a peculiar status because it is before a children's programme
:04:15. > :04:20.but it is an adult news programme. There is some accommodation made
:04:20. > :04:28.for the fact that it is unusual in dealing with adult content before
:04:28. > :04:32.the watershed. That means fine judgement about what we think is
:04:32. > :04:40.acceptable to a teatime audience. What he make of what you have
:04:40. > :04:44.heard? Iten he James's. Clearly. It reminds me of a comment made by
:04:44. > :04:53.Meredith Kercher's family that her daughter is lost in the hype
:04:53. > :04:59.surrounding the case. The circumstances of Joanna Yeates
:04:59. > :05:08.murder may be forgotten in the media hype around the trial.
:05:08. > :05:13.Sydney-Hobart it is a point worth making. -- I certainly hope not. We
:05:13. > :05:23.will bear that in mind as the trial goes on. Thank you for joining us
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:05:28. > :05:34.from Bristol. Reports into the tragic death of Dan Weldon appeared
:05:34. > :05:40.everywhere at the start of the week. The racing-car driver was killed at
:05:40. > :05:49.a race in Las Vegas on Sunday. This package was shown on the 1pm, 6pm
:05:49. > :05:52.and 10pm news the next day. Dan Weldon was racing for a five
:05:52. > :05:59.million-dollar prize. Starting at the back he had to levitate every
:05:59. > :06:04.other in the car racer. Be airport went on to show his car
:06:04. > :06:08.sipping, hitting a wall and bursting into flames. Before it was
:06:08. > :06:13.aired the West were warned it contained distressing images.
:06:13. > :06:18.However a you're got in touch to say that we would not televised the
:06:18. > :06:24.blow that killed a boxer. If someone were shot, we would not
:06:24. > :06:31.show them being shot. So why show the crash which killed and Welton?
:06:31. > :06:41.Many people who take part in Dan -- motor racing find such footage
:06:41. > :06:55.
:06:55. > :06:59.distressing. From complaints have Floodwaters are inundating Thailand.
:06:59. > :07:07.Several thousand have died and tens of thousands are forced from their
:07:07. > :07:17.homes. AQA wrote to West Indies believe that the disaster was not
:07:17. > :07:20.
:07:20. > :07:23.receiving more coverage. Or protesters have been dead in the
:07:23. > :07:29.Wall Street for more than a month and in the last week have assembled
:07:29. > :07:32.in countries across the globe. It will started on 17th September with
:07:33. > :07:38.a small group gathering close to New York's financial heart and Wall
:07:38. > :07:43.Street. Its world it to several thousand people with dozens of
:07:43. > :07:47.arrests being made. The campaign known as Occupy Wall Street has
:07:47. > :07:55.attracted people from thousands of miles away, many holding signs
:07:55. > :08:00.spelling out their goals. Demonstrators on Sunday set up camp
:08:00. > :08:05.outside St Paul's Cathedral in London after an earlier attempt to
:08:05. > :08:11.occupy a square outside the London Stock Exchange was halted by police.
:08:11. > :08:14.Many complained that the BBC was so to report the protest. Even when
:08:14. > :08:21.coverage of the global occupations picked up over the weekend it was
:08:21. > :08:25.too little, too late. A US said it was a story that was clearly
:08:25. > :08:30.important from the start and yet were several weeks to find space.
:08:30. > :08:36.Another concern was that by covering violence like the August
:08:36. > :08:46.riots and not covering peaceful protests, Condit BBC be
:08:46. > :08:53.unintentionally fuelling protesters to go to extremes to be noticed.
:08:54. > :08:58.need to encourage peaceful protest. Smaller demonstrations have taken
:08:58. > :09:08.place in other cities across the Cape including Bristol, Birmingham
:09:08. > :09:39.
:09:39. > :09:43.club, Glasgow and Edinburgh. Wallace is BBC News' answer? We
:09:43. > :09:48.were given a statement. The Occupy Wall Street demonstrations have
:09:48. > :09:53.been covered during the past month. Last Sunday when protests took
:09:53. > :10:01.place in London, New York and elsewhere, the story featured in
:10:01. > :10:06.all the news bulletins on BBC One and in Radio 4's evening bulletin.
:10:06. > :10:16.Occupied Bristol has been covered by BBC Radio Bristol and a BBC One
:10:16. > :10:22.
:10:22. > :10:25.show. Last week we kicked off an occasional slot in which in the
:10:25. > :10:35.wake of the BBC cost-cutting proposals he was can point out what
:10:35. > :10:42.they see as money being wasted. One viewer said the work unnecessary
:10:42. > :10:47.travel costs involved in sending weather reporters to different
:10:47. > :10:52.parts of the country. Or, delight to see the weather presenters out
:10:52. > :11:02.and about? Does it enhance the report when the presenter is in a
:11:02. > :11:09.
:11:09. > :11:15.scene implication? Finally, why you insist on broadcasting predictions?