Letter: Guidelines on crime

Monday 06 June 1994 23:02 BST

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Sir: May I clarify an important detail in your reporting of the BBC's guidelines on crime coverage (2 June)? The new guidelines apply to the BBC's national and regional news and current affairs programmes, not to programmes like Crimewatch. Crimewatch already has strict guidelines under which it has operated for many years, which prohibit the use of music, special sound effects, slow motion or any other artificial technique to increase dramatic tension.

Yours etc,

MARK THOMPSON

Head of Features

BBC Television

London, W12

3 June

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