22/10/2011 Newswatch

Welcome to Newswatch. We look at stories which viewers the received

it too much attention and others which the US felt were not covered

enough. Still making headlines is the trial of Vincent Tabak who

admits to the manslaughter of Joanna Yeates but denies the murder.

Our correspondent reports. Ten months after he killed Jo Yeates

Vincent Tabak came to of they his story in his own words. Her

boyfriend great it joined her parents and her brother in a packed

courtroom. On last week's programme we heard

objections to the BBC showing pictures of the inside of her flat.

This week it a viewer finds some of the images to be voyeuristic and

gratuitous. Another thing city is undignified that Joanna's

bewilderment and pain should become a temporary soap opera. Another

asks if someone could explain how this day more bitter update is more

relevant in this case than in other ongoing murder cases. Has the BBC's

reporting this reports at and intrusive, as some US thing? A

senior journalists joined spin out to discuss this. What you like

about the BBC trial coverage? They are any reporting what was said in

open court. I wanted to make a few points. Why is this particular case

receiving so much attention? The other has to do with the content

and the use of what I thought were vulgar head lies. As they have to

see how these headlines constitute intelligent reporting. I want to

know why the BBC was reporting to this kind of sensational reporting.

One might normally find such things in a tabloid newspaper. James, you

are stooping to gratuitous tabloid reporting,. We realise this is a

difficult case. The first of your points: Why has this case got

coverage? It is one we have been asking ourselves. It is the nature

of the story. The fact that she was leading an ordinary life and this

happened to her. The point about the style of the reporting. I do

not think we stick to lower standards than we would have done

elsewhere. Set any venues is by a very experienced correspondent

based in Bristol. He has tried to balance the enormity of the public

interest with sensitivity about the case. There were more grisly

details which the court have heard. That is in open court. Publicly

stated. Are you an editor out of both the 6pm and 10pm news. You are.

He make any distinction between what you report earlier when

children may be watching than later? We think about it. The 6pm

news has a peculiar status because it is before a children's programme

but it is an adult news programme. There is some accommodation made

for the fact that it is unusual in dealing with adult content before

the watershed. That means fine judgement about what we think is

acceptable to a teatime audience. What he make of what you have

heard? Iten he James's. Clearly. It reminds me of a comment made by

Meredith Kercher's family that her daughter is lost in the hype

surrounding the case. The circumstances of Joanna Yeates

murder may be forgotten in the media hype around the trial.

Sydney-Hobart it is a point worth making. -- I certainly hope not. We

will bear that in mind as the trial goes on. Thank you for joining us

from Bristol. Reports into the tragic death of Dan Weldon appeared

everywhere at the start of the week. The racing-car driver was killed at

a race in Las Vegas on Sunday. This package was shown on the 1pm, 6pm

and 10pm news the next day. Dan Weldon was racing for a five

million-dollar prize. Starting at the back he had to levitate every

other in the car racer. Be airport went on to show his car

sipping, hitting a wall and bursting into flames. Before it was

aired the West were warned it contained distressing images.

However a you're got in touch to say that we would not televised the

blow that killed a boxer. If someone were shot, we would not

show them being shot. So why show the crash which killed and Welton?

Many people who take part in Dan -- motor racing find such footage

distressing. From complaints have Floodwaters are inundating Thailand.

Several thousand have died and tens of thousands are forced from their

homes. AQA wrote to West Indies believe that the disaster was not

receiving more coverage. Or protesters have been dead in the

Wall Street for more than a month and in the last week have assembled

in countries across the globe. It will started on 17th September with

a small group gathering close to New York's financial heart and Wall

Street. Its world it to several thousand people with dozens of

arrests being made. The campaign known as Occupy Wall Street has

attracted people from thousands of miles away, many holding signs

spelling out their goals. Demonstrators on Sunday set up camp

outside St Paul's Cathedral in London after an earlier attempt to

occupy a square outside the London Stock Exchange was halted by police.

Many complained that the BBC was so to report the protest. Even when

coverage of the global occupations picked up over the weekend it was

too little, too late. A US said it was a story that was clearly

important from the start and yet were several weeks to find space.

Another concern was that by covering violence like the August

riots and not covering peaceful protests, Condit BBC be

unintentionally fuelling protesters to go to extremes to be noticed.

need to encourage peaceful protest. Smaller demonstrations have taken

place in other cities across the Cape including Bristol, Birmingham

club, Glasgow and Edinburgh. Wallace is BBC News' answer? We

were given a statement. The Occupy Wall Street demonstrations have

been covered during the past month. Last Sunday when protests took

place in London, New York and elsewhere, the story featured in

all the news bulletins on BBC One and in Radio 4's evening bulletin.

Occupied Bristol has been covered by BBC Radio Bristol and a BBC One

show. Last week we kicked off an occasional slot in which in the

wake of the BBC cost-cutting proposals he was can point out what

they see as money being wasted. One viewer said the work unnecessary

travel costs involved in sending weather reporters to different

parts of the country. Or, delight to see the weather presenters out

and about? Does it enhance the report when the presenter is in a

scene implication? Finally, why you insist on broadcasting predictions?