07/07/2012 Newswatch

Welcome to news watch. One viewer objects to our TV news betrays the

older generation. It's the jests that people over 60 are only fit

for the bowling green. Why are people subjected to this kind of

stereotyping imagery. BG executive of Barclays fell on his knife in

the wake of the interbank interest rigging scandal. The BBC's business

editor has called on to shed light on the resignation on the news at

Ten. But there was not much light around. Several people talk to

Twitter one wrote : someone else For some news watch viewers the

problem was not one of lighting but excessive coverage. The with thing

that Barclays Bank was the only game in town and Syria and

everything else do not exist. ITV was full of Syria and issues of

wider interest. But will the BBC was interested in was Bob Diamond.

Bob Diamond, Bob Diamond, Bob Diamond. I have had nothing else

but Bob Diamond. Talk about firewalls and smoke screens. Let us

get the reporters out there to give us some news. Bob Diamond may have

lost his job but George Entwistle gained one. He has been chosen to

when Britain's biggest broadcaster. The new Director General of the BBC

will be George end world's -- and was off. It is a good idea to spell

the name of your new boss correctly. It is Entwistle without the letter

H. At the moment the name was being announced, the incumbent was

sitting alongside other broadcasters. With the man hired as

his side's right-hand man. The idea is to combine the Channel's

currently available on free view with online content from the

Internet. The BBC has invested �10 million with ITV and Channels 4'

and five with other channels chipping in. Critics wonder it the

service to lead from a shed will start two years ago has missed the

boat. The chief executive joins me now. What is in this for viewers?

Why should they buy your box and what will they get? Wiki think it

is a fantastic product. It is very easy to use. It gives you live

television. It combines them with all the catch-up services of

broadcasters you have mentioned, BBC and ITV. And on demand material

from the Internet? We have now TV, a new service from Sky on the

platform as well. For example, what if I want to see last Thursday's

Newsnight can I do it with the new box? This is all on your main

living room TV. The same guide you with your cat to find programs

tonight, you can go backwards to last night's TV and press OK on the

program you want to watch. It is on demand. How far can you go back?

Seven days or a month? It is up to the individual broadcaster. The ITV

is for seven days. But the BBC has made desert island discs available

for the 80 episodes. Is it not a rather expensive box? It is just

under �300. The does give you the ability to pause and rewind and go

for it. It is high definition and a great catch-up service. It is

cheaper than similar boxers. Faure combination of reasons, the actions

of the regulators, you are two days later and technical problems. Is

that a problem, have you missed the boat with this product?

perspective is that it is a unique product. We are setting the pace

rather than borrowing. You are correct, we have absorbed some of

the delays. When we put the product in front of journalists and media,

was very different and they thought it was exciting. The BBC has

invested �10 billion of money. Is it a good deal for licence payers?

The BBC has consistently invested in future technologies. It has a

good technology off backing winners like free view and I player. This

is the third in that series. The competition has increased. Although

you are launching before the Olympics, would it not be better to

have a run before the was momentum before the Olympics rather than

getting it into the shops just before the flame goes down the

street? Every chief executive wants to do things faster. Given that

there are 12 million people watching previews and rejecting pay

television, this is a great arc great for them. Thank you more of

your comments. We got closer to explaining how matter attains its

mass. It is present through the cosmos through stars and the planet

Earth. Some call it the God particle. Without it, the Universe

would not exist. Now and has detected the particle until now.

follow the reporting of this story across Wednesday and detected an

It was not irrelevant. Another viewer was concerned about the

relevance of the news that Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes are getting

a divorce. It was the top story in the world news section of the BBC

Online app. A viewer wrote that this was ridiculous. Another viewer

This week the BBC launched a season of programs about ageing called

when I am 65, which I am. It has the older generation depicted on

news programs, not well according to 68-year-old Jan. She e-mailed us

this year saying news at Ten showed a clip of pensioners playing indoor

bowls, leaning on sticks with frames at the ready. This is unfair.

Not all bowlers are pensioners, and not all bowling pensioners have

backsides the site -- sizes of the Another news watch viewer shares

these concerns. He came to us today to explain why. The was a news item

on the news at six about pensioners. It was accompanied by footage of

people playing bowls, old geezers playing bowls. Curly-haired woman

playing bingo. My feeling was that this was an easy option to

illustrate people of a certain age. I think the BBC, not just the BBC

could do better and be more creative. The dream of a happy

retirement without money worries seems further away than ever.

can find something to illustrate people over a certain age these

days in a better way. It suggests that people, once they pass 60 are

only fit for the bowling green or the bingo parlour. People my age

are doing all sorts of things. They are walking, going to Vegas and

playing the tables, or supervising. Not sitting in a corner waiting to

die. Pensioners are under pressure from higher food and energy prices.

A more imagination could be employed. There is a lot about not

stereotyping and stigmatising certain elements of society. Why

are pensioners subjected to this kind of stereotyping imagery?

you for your comments. Next week we will be discussing the choice of

panellists an audience on the BBC One discussion program Question

Time. He may have seen Johnny Rotten on the Thursday night