:00:31. > :00:37.Welcome to news watch. One viewer objects to our TV news betrays the
:00:37. > :00:42.older generation. It's the jests that people over 60 are only fit
:00:42. > :00:48.for the bowling green. Why are people subjected to this kind of
:00:48. > :00:55.stereotyping imagery. BG executive of Barclays fell on his knife in
:00:55. > :00:59.the wake of the interbank interest rigging scandal. The BBC's business
:01:00. > :01:06.editor has called on to shed light on the resignation on the news at
:01:06. > :01:16.Ten. But there was not much light around. Several people talk to
:01:16. > :01:36.
:01:36. > :01:45.Twitter one wrote : someone else For some news watch viewers the
:01:45. > :01:50.problem was not one of lighting but excessive coverage. The with thing
:01:50. > :01:54.that Barclays Bank was the only game in town and Syria and
:01:54. > :02:01.everything else do not exist. ITV was full of Syria and issues of
:02:01. > :02:07.wider interest. But will the BBC was interested in was Bob Diamond.
:02:07. > :02:14.Bob Diamond, Bob Diamond, Bob Diamond. I have had nothing else
:02:15. > :02:20.but Bob Diamond. Talk about firewalls and smoke screens. Let us
:02:20. > :02:24.get the reporters out there to give us some news. Bob Diamond may have
:02:24. > :02:33.lost his job but George Entwistle gained one. He has been chosen to
:02:33. > :02:40.when Britain's biggest broadcaster. The new Director General of the BBC
:02:41. > :02:46.will be George end world's -- and was off. It is a good idea to spell
:02:46. > :02:56.the name of your new boss correctly. It is Entwistle without the letter
:02:56. > :02:57.
:02:57. > :03:06.H. At the moment the name was being announced, the incumbent was
:03:06. > :03:10.sitting alongside other broadcasters. With the man hired as
:03:10. > :03:13.his side's right-hand man. The idea is to combine the Channel's
:03:13. > :03:20.currently available on free view with online content from the
:03:20. > :03:27.Internet. The BBC has invested �10 million with ITV and Channels 4'
:03:27. > :03:31.and five with other channels chipping in. Critics wonder it the
:03:31. > :03:39.service to lead from a shed will start two years ago has missed the
:03:39. > :03:44.boat. The chief executive joins me now. What is in this for viewers?
:03:44. > :03:50.Why should they buy your box and what will they get? Wiki think it
:03:50. > :03:55.is a fantastic product. It is very easy to use. It gives you live
:03:55. > :04:00.television. It combines them with all the catch-up services of
:04:00. > :04:08.broadcasters you have mentioned, BBC and ITV. And on demand material
:04:08. > :04:14.from the Internet? We have now TV, a new service from Sky on the
:04:14. > :04:18.platform as well. For example, what if I want to see last Thursday's
:04:19. > :04:23.Newsnight can I do it with the new box? This is all on your main
:04:24. > :04:28.living room TV. The same guide you with your cat to find programs
:04:29. > :04:35.tonight, you can go backwards to last night's TV and press OK on the
:04:35. > :04:42.program you want to watch. It is on demand. How far can you go back?
:04:42. > :04:48.Seven days or a month? It is up to the individual broadcaster. The ITV
:04:48. > :04:54.is for seven days. But the BBC has made desert island discs available
:04:54. > :05:01.for the 80 episodes. Is it not a rather expensive box? It is just
:05:01. > :05:04.under �300. The does give you the ability to pause and rewind and go
:05:04. > :05:14.for it. It is high definition and a great catch-up service. It is
:05:14. > :05:19.cheaper than similar boxers. Faure combination of reasons, the actions
:05:19. > :05:24.of the regulators, you are two days later and technical problems. Is
:05:24. > :05:31.that a problem, have you missed the boat with this product?
:05:31. > :05:35.perspective is that it is a unique product. We are setting the pace
:05:35. > :05:40.rather than borrowing. You are correct, we have absorbed some of
:05:41. > :05:47.the delays. When we put the product in front of journalists and media,
:05:48. > :05:53.was very different and they thought it was exciting. The BBC has
:05:53. > :05:58.invested �10 billion of money. Is it a good deal for licence payers?
:05:58. > :06:04.The BBC has consistently invested in future technologies. It has a
:06:05. > :06:09.good technology off backing winners like free view and I player. This
:06:09. > :06:13.is the third in that series. The competition has increased. Although
:06:13. > :06:17.you are launching before the Olympics, would it not be better to
:06:17. > :06:21.have a run before the was momentum before the Olympics rather than
:06:21. > :06:28.getting it into the shops just before the flame goes down the
:06:28. > :06:32.street? Every chief executive wants to do things faster. Given that
:06:32. > :06:40.there are 12 million people watching previews and rejecting pay
:06:41. > :06:45.television, this is a great arc great for them. Thank you more of
:06:45. > :06:51.your comments. We got closer to explaining how matter attains its
:06:51. > :06:55.mass. It is present through the cosmos through stars and the planet
:06:55. > :07:04.Earth. Some call it the God particle. Without it, the Universe
:07:04. > :07:07.would not exist. Now and has detected the particle until now.
:07:07. > :07:17.follow the reporting of this story across Wednesday and detected an
:07:17. > :07:43.
:07:43. > :07:46.It was not irrelevant. Another viewer was concerned about the
:07:46. > :07:56.relevance of the news that Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes are getting
:07:56. > :07:58.
:07:58. > :08:06.a divorce. It was the top story in the world news section of the BBC
:08:06. > :08:16.Online app. A viewer wrote that this was ridiculous. Another viewer
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:08:31. > :08:37.This week the BBC launched a season of programs about ageing called
:08:37. > :08:43.when I am 65, which I am. It has the older generation depicted on
:08:43. > :08:48.news programs, not well according to 68-year-old Jan. She e-mailed us
:08:48. > :08:53.this year saying news at Ten showed a clip of pensioners playing indoor
:08:53. > :08:58.bowls, leaning on sticks with frames at the ready. This is unfair.
:08:58. > :09:08.Not all bowlers are pensioners, and not all bowling pensioners have
:09:08. > :09:29.
:09:29. > :09:37.backsides the site -- sizes of the Another news watch viewer shares
:09:37. > :09:45.these concerns. He came to us today to explain why. The was a news item
:09:45. > :09:51.on the news at six about pensioners. It was accompanied by footage of
:09:51. > :09:56.people playing bowls, old geezers playing bowls. Curly-haired woman
:09:56. > :10:02.playing bingo. My feeling was that this was an easy option to
:10:02. > :10:07.illustrate people of a certain age. I think the BBC, not just the BBC
:10:07. > :10:13.could do better and be more creative. The dream of a happy
:10:13. > :10:17.retirement without money worries seems further away than ever.
:10:17. > :10:24.can find something to illustrate people over a certain age these
:10:24. > :10:27.days in a better way. It suggests that people, once they pass 60 are
:10:27. > :10:33.only fit for the bowling green or the bingo parlour. People my age
:10:33. > :10:39.are doing all sorts of things. They are walking, going to Vegas and
:10:39. > :10:45.playing the tables, or supervising. Not sitting in a corner waiting to
:10:45. > :10:50.die. Pensioners are under pressure from higher food and energy prices.
:10:50. > :10:58.A more imagination could be employed. There is a lot about not
:10:58. > :11:05.stereotyping and stigmatising certain elements of society. Why
:11:05. > :11:09.are pensioners subjected to this kind of stereotyping imagery?
:11:09. > :11:13.you for your comments. Next week we will be discussing the choice of
:11:13. > :11:17.panellists an audience on the BBC One discussion program Question
:11:17. > :11:24.Time. He may have seen Johnny Rotten on the Thursday night