:00:24. > :00:28.Now it is time for NewsWatch with Welcome to NewsWatch. Coming up in
:00:28. > :00:33.a few minutes, one fewer objects to the way ITV News portrays the older
:00:33. > :00:37.generation. It sort of suggests that people, once they are past 60
:00:37. > :00:41.cot all they are fit for is the bowling green or bingo parlour. Why
:00:42. > :00:47.are pensioners, over-sixties, subjected to this stereotyping
:00:47. > :00:52.imagery? Before that, on Tuesday the chief executive of Barclays,
:00:52. > :00:57.Bob Diamond, fell on his sword in the wake of the interbank scandal.
:00:57. > :01:00.Some would say this is a soap opera. The BBC's business editor Robert
:01:00. > :01:06.Peston was called on to shed light on the resignation on that night's
:01:06. > :01:16.News at Ten but they did not seem to be much lighter round. Several
:01:16. > :01:34.
:01:34. > :01:36.wags took to Twitter, including For some NewsWatch view was that
:01:36. > :01:43.the problem was not one of lighting but the familiar charge of
:01:43. > :01:46.excessive coverage. One would think the way the BBC is covering the
:01:46. > :01:52.news that Barclays Bank was the only game in town and that Syria
:01:52. > :01:57.and all the rest of it no longer exists. ITV News is absolutely full
:01:57. > :02:03.of Syria and other things, of wider interest, but all the BBC thinks it
:02:03. > :02:06.is interesting is Bob Diamond, on and on and on. Bob Diamond, Bob
:02:06. > :02:11.Diamond, Bob Diamond. I have had the television on for a couple of
:02:11. > :02:14.hours and I have heard nothing but Bob Diamond, Bob Diamond, and
:02:14. > :02:18.gobbledegook about firewalls and smoke screens. Please, get the
:02:18. > :02:23.reporters out there and give us some news, not just one item to
:02:23. > :02:27.death. Bob Diamond may have lost a job but George Entwistle gained one
:02:27. > :02:31.this week. He has been chosen to run Britain's biggest broadcaster.
:02:31. > :02:34.The BBC has announced the corporation's new director general
:02:34. > :02:39.will be George Entwistle. Is currently the head of BBC vision
:02:39. > :02:42.but will take over from Mark Thomson in the autumn. Memo to the
:02:42. > :02:48.News at One, it is a good idea to spend -- to spell the name of your
:02:48. > :02:56.new boss correctly. That is and whistle without a letter H. Yes,
:02:56. > :03:02.that is it. At that very moment that name was being announced, not
:03:02. > :03:09.-- Mark Ronson was sitting at the new catch-up TV platform YouView
:03:09. > :03:13.together with Lord Sugar. Where do you want to start? The idea is to
:03:13. > :03:19.combine the channels currently available on Freeview was on demand
:03:19. > :03:25.content from the internet. The BBC has invested �10 million with ITV,
:03:25. > :03:30.Channels four and five, BT, Arqiva and Talk Talk chipping in, but
:03:30. > :03:35.critics wonder if the service first announced in 2080 under the name
:03:36. > :03:40.Project Canvas and delayed from two years ago has missed the boat.
:03:40. > :03:43.YouView's chief executive Richard Holt enjoys been out. What is in
:03:43. > :03:48.this for viewers? Why should they buy your box and what will they get
:03:48. > :03:53.if they do? We think it is a fantastic product. It is an easy to
:03:53. > :03:56.use box that gives you live television for the channel's you'd
:03:56. > :03:58.get today and combines them with the catch at services of the
:03:58. > :04:03.broadcasters who you have just mentioned, the BBC, ITV, Channel
:04:03. > :04:11.Four. And on demand material from the internet if you choose? That is
:04:11. > :04:16.right and now a TV from Sky and STV will be on the platform as well.
:04:16. > :04:20.Say I want to see last Thursday's Newsnight, can I still it with your
:04:20. > :04:24.new box? Yes, the great thing about YouView is it is on your main
:04:24. > :04:27.living room TV, but it is very simple. The same guide you would
:04:27. > :04:30.look at to find programmes tonight, you can go backwards to last
:04:31. > :04:35.night's TV, the previous night, press OK on the programme you want
:04:35. > :04:41.to watch and there it is, on demand. How far can you go back? Last month,
:04:41. > :04:46.or seven days? It did -- it is up to the individual broadcasters. ITV,
:04:46. > :04:51.30 days and the BBC has made Desert Island Discs available on the
:04:51. > :04:55.service but that is up to the broadcast. But just a fraction
:04:55. > :05:00.under �300, isn't this rather expensive? I think given that what
:05:00. > :05:03.is giving you is a PBR, the ability to pause come a record and rewind,
:05:03. > :05:07.high-definition and a great catch- up Service, it is not much more
:05:07. > :05:11.expensive than similar products on the market today and is cheaper
:05:11. > :05:15.than similar boxes when they launched. For a combination of
:05:15. > :05:20.reasons the activities of the regulators and technical problems,
:05:20. > :05:24.you are two years late from your announced launch date. Isn't that a
:05:24. > :05:28.problem and to some extent have you missed the boat with this product?
:05:28. > :05:31.I think our perspective on this is YouView stands in the market today
:05:31. > :05:34.as a unique product so in that sense we feel we are setting the
:05:34. > :05:38.pace rather than following and you are absolutely right, we have
:05:38. > :05:41.absorbed some of the delays you have described but I think when we
:05:41. > :05:45.put the product in front of journalists and media yesterday,
:05:45. > :05:49.their initial reaction was this feels very different and exciting.
:05:49. > :05:54.The BBC has invested �10 million of licence payers money in this. Is it
:05:54. > :05:58.a good deal for licence payers? believe so. The BBC has
:05:58. > :06:01.consistently invested in the future technology and it has got a very
:06:01. > :06:07.good technology of backing -- it has got a good record of backing
:06:07. > :06:10.winners, Freeview and iPlayer. As Mark Thomson said, YouView is the
:06:10. > :06:13.certain that series. competition has increased and
:06:13. > :06:17.although you are launching before the Olympics wouldn't it have been
:06:17. > :06:21.better to have a bit of or running so there was momentum for the
:06:21. > :06:25.Olympics rather than getting it into the shops just before the
:06:25. > :06:30.flame goes down the street? Every chief executive wants to do six
:06:30. > :06:34.faster, cheaper, better, that is a reality, but given there are 12
:06:34. > :06:39.million people out there with Freeview who have rejected pay-
:06:39. > :06:45.television, this is a great upgrade for them. Richard Halton, thank you.
:06:45. > :06:49.For some more of your comments, week in which we got closer to
:06:49. > :06:54.explaining how matter attains its mass. It is present throughout the
:06:54. > :06:58.cosmos, through stars and our own planet Earth. Some call it the God
:06:58. > :07:04.particle because without it the universe would not exist, yet no
:07:04. > :07:07.one has detected the Higgs boson until maybe now. Brian Jackson
:07:07. > :07:17.followed the reporting of this story across Wednesday and detected
:07:17. > :07:41.
:07:41. > :07:44.Not irrelevant, I am sure. Another viewer was concerned about the
:07:45. > :07:49.relevance, or lack of it, or the news that Tom Cruise and Katie
:07:49. > :07:59.Holmes are getting a divorce. Tom Stickland looked to Twitter to make
:07:59. > :08:01.
:08:01. > :08:11.Meanwhile, Terry Whitham things we have seen too much of a staple of
:08:11. > :08:32.
:08:32. > :08:37.This week the BBC launched a season of programmes about ageing, called
:08:37. > :08:42.When I'm 65, which, by the way, I certainly am. But as the older
:08:42. > :08:52.generation depicted on news programmes? But not well according
:08:52. > :09:31.
:09:31. > :09:35.John Batten took exception to Another NewsWatch fewer, Jeff
:09:35. > :09:40.Heenan-Davies, shows these concerns. He went into our Cardiff studio to
:09:40. > :09:47.explain why. There was a news item on BBC One on the News at Six about
:09:47. > :09:53.pensioners and it was accompanied by footage of people playing bowls,
:09:53. > :09:58.old geezers playing bowls, and curly perm for women playing bingo.
:09:58. > :10:05.My feeling was this was an easy option to illustrate people of a
:10:05. > :10:10.certain age. I think, you know, the BBC and it is not just the BBC,
:10:10. > :10:13.could do better, be more creative. The dream of a happy retirement
:10:13. > :10:21.without money worries seems further away than ever. The surely we can
:10:21. > :10:24.find something to illustrate people over a certain age in a better way.
:10:24. > :10:29.It's sort of suggests that people, once they have passed 60, all they
:10:29. > :10:33.are fit for is the bowling green or bingo parlour. People my age and
:10:33. > :10:37.older are doing all kinds of things, scuba-diving, hill-walking, going
:10:37. > :10:40.to Las Vegas and playing the tables. They are not all playing crown
:10:40. > :10:44.bowls and sitting in a corner waiting to die. Pensioners are
:10:44. > :10:48.already under pressure from higher food and energy prices and women
:10:48. > :10:53.feel... I feel a bit more imagination could be employed.
:10:53. > :10:57.After all, there is a lot about not stereotyping and stigmatising
:10:57. > :11:02.certain elements of society and quite rightly so, so why are
:11:02. > :11:08.pensioners and people over 60 subjected to this kind of
:11:08. > :11:10.stereotyping imagery? Thanks to Geoff for that and for all of your
:11:10. > :11:14.comments. Next week we will be discussing the choice of panellists
:11:14. > :11:17.and audience on BBC One's discussion programme, Question Time.