[Reith85]

The obituary on the Ten was much softer than the one used on the One and focussed more on his life with Kate and less on his political career, a lot of the political stuff was cut out

Maybe it was noted within BBC News that it needed to be a bit softer

I don’t know which one was used on the Six and which one some here are commenting about

Not wishing to prolong this debate but again, I would reiterate that the original report on the News at One was not the cold, harsh report that it is being made out to be: as I typed before, it was book-ended by scenes from Caring for Derek, and his and the family's struggles with Covid, and it ended with the typically sombre and respectful darkened image of Draper as Jane Hill reiterated the news of his passing. It was suitably deferential in this context and I personally didn't find it at all disrespectful or different from any other obituary report of a public figure that you'd see on a BBC News bulletin.

I also don't feel that the equivalent report on the BBC News at Ten this evening was significantly different: yes, some of the political detail had been taken out in favour of a short tribute clip from This Morning, together with Helen Catt referencing the tributes today from Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, but you still had the detail about his lobbying-past and it was pretty much the same content-wise in other terms as the report on the News at One, again with the book-ended clips from Caring for Derek and again with the fade to the darkened image of Draper.