30/09/2011 Newswatch

The welcome to NewsWatch. Later in the programme, was it responsible

to broadcast this interview, predicting financial Armageddon?

dream of another recession, another moment like this. Tuesday's speech

by the Labour leader at his party's annual conference was going fine,

until a quarter of an hour in, this happened. My message to the public

is simple... Ed Miliband, having a few technical problems... We are

having a few technical problems with our feet from Liverpool. I

think we are going to try to find think we are going to try to find

another link to pick up on that. It was five minutes before the

picture was restored, during which time, BBC Two went blank. The news

channel played some of the audio feed of the speech.

An absolute disaster for his media press team. Everyone seems to have

lost power with Liverpool, which means nobody is able to broadcast

this speech alive. All television channels were

affected by the problem, which stemmed from a generator failure in

the contract to's truck. Which was supplying a feat to broadcasters --

The new channel broke into a report by Nick Robinson. The government's

austerity plan is failing. You can sense the fear we have as we watch

the economic crisis that stalked our country in 2008. Apologies to

leave that, we will return a little later, but we are heading back to

Los Angeles, because proceedings have resumed in the case against Dr

Conrad Murray. What was, who was the cause of Michael Jackson staff?

One BBC interview caused a huge storm of protest. This is a man

described as an independent market trader, speaking to the news

channel on Monday. I am very confident that this particular

rescue plan, it doesn't matter how much money they want to put in, it

is not going to work. Because this problem cannot be solved. I am

fairly confident the euro is going to crash and fall pretty hard.

Because markets are ruled by fear. Foremost writers -- for most

traders, we don't really care too much, how they are going to fix the

economy or the whole situation. Or job is to make money from it.

Personally, I have been dreaming of this moment for three years. I go

to bed every night, I dream of another recession. If you could see

the people around me, jaws have collectively dropped at what you

have just said. We appreciate your candour but it doesn't help the

rest of us. I would say this to everybody who is watching this.

This economic crisis is like a cancer. If you wait and wait,

thinking this is going to go away, just like a cancer it is going to

grow, and be too late. Twitter users questioned his credentials?

Asking whether the news channel had been hoaxed. The BBC said it

carried out detailed investigations and couldn't find any evidence to

suggest the interview was a hoax. Was this trader is to double

interviewee anyway? It turned out he had never been authorised by the

Financial Services Authority -- was he a suitable interviewee? He said

he was an intention sika and he rebranded his YouTube channel as

trade on the BBC -- he said he was trade on the BBC -- he said he was

an entire -- he said he was an We wanted to talk to someone from

BBC News about why he had been chosen to appear on the news

channel, but mac got request was refused. We were referred again to

the statement saying there was no evidence he was a hoaxer. I am

joined by the journalist and preventer of Radio 4's radio show -

- presenter. Was he an appropriate person to have a national news

channel? The problem is, that in his own words, he is a self-

confessed attention seeker who describes financial trading as not

really a business, more of a hobby. You are left wondering how he

appeared on BBC News. Not in any old role, but as an expert on the

financial crisis. Should his credentials have been better

checked before he was suddenly thrust to national fame? I don't

know what credentials he has. The BBC could fairly say, the news

channel has lots of people on it, represents a wide range of views.

You go on the street and talk to people, you take what you get. In

this case, he was put up as someone who knew what he was talking about

the relation to the global financial crisis and business

matters. He is a self-confessed potential sicker he describes

financial trading, which was his designation... Self-confessed

attention seeker. He describes financial trading as a hobby. Is he

credible as a financial trader? Make your own mind up, but not as

credible as others. With markets so volatile and potentially influenced

by broadcasts like that, should the BBC have been more careful? On the

face of it, they did not represent -- did not misrepresent him. He is

technically a financial trader. But is the most credible voice, given

that if he happened to... If his views ended up representing a broad

opinion amongst financial traders, one would guess it was more by luck

than judgment. This apparently went through a general producer rather

than the specialist business unit. Is that likely to have been a

problem? I would be surprised if given the minor rumpus... It wasn't

a hoax and what is it doesn't appear to be that far out of kilter.

I would be surprised if BBC are not reviewing how they assess their

contributors in matters like this. Thank you.

There were more question-marks over guests election after Wednesday

night's Newsnight. Jeremy Paxman showed a discussion about the euro

which involved a spokesman from the European Commission and the

opinionated journalist, Peter Oban. These guys are in total and utter

denial. It is terribly frightening, listening to that idiot in Brussels.

Would you like to respond? No, I think these words speak for

themselves. This idiot in Brussels... Will you stop referring

to him as that. If you listen to the catastrophic quality... You may

think he is out of contact with reality... He is now walking out of

the studio. Well done, we can't even hold him to account, because

you have been gratuitously offensive.

Sarah Miller was one of a number of If I said we are currently in the

year 2011 C E, would you know what I was talking about? It stands for,

an era, and newspapers reported that the BBC had decided to use

that instead of AD, and B C E, instead of BC, or before Christ.

Many of you were furious about the Many of you were furious about the

The Andrew Marr showed discussed the story in its paper review, but

presenter and guests appeared to be off-message. According to the Mail

on Sunday, BBC turns its back on year of Our Lord, and we are going

to say, nearer, and before, era. I'm not. I say AD, and BC, because

that is what I understand. Good, I agree. What was going on? The Mail

on Sunday and Boris Johnson based their stories on a statement on BBC

religion's website, saying it used these C and C, instead of BC and AD.

Is there a corporation wide band? No, according to a statement we

No shortage of criticisms about BBC News this week, but there was a

reminder on Tuesday that other broadcasters are not all perfect.

ITV admitted that images used in its new current affairs series,

supposedly of the IRA shooting down a helicopter with weapons supplied