19/05/2012 Newswatch

Welcome to Newswatch. Coming up: De website story that appeared before

the events it describes. Allegations of political bias made

by London's mayor. Are we obsessed with murder?

Be for that, the most thrilling Day in the history of English club

football. Manchester City snatching the Premiership title from their

local rivals. More importantly, the Queen's car come -- Queen's Park

don't know what I'm talking about, More complaints followed on Monday

when the victory parade was shown that life on the news channel for

At least with the Premiership over, we will be football free until the

end of summer. We? Know it. Over the rest of this week, BBC News has

been sacking the manager of -- following the sacking of Liverpool

manager. It looks like there will be plenty more soccer to come in

the next few weeks. So why all of this football on the news? I am

joined by Richard Burgess, the head of sports news at the BBC. I

confess I was actually at the game on Sunday. For those of us there,

it was a very exciting occasion. But what do you say to the millions

of viewers who either hate football have no interest? We understand

that not all of the audience are sports fans. But I think this was

certainly an event in football that almost transcended sport. For a

number of reasons. The dramatic last-minute nature of the win. He

was against their nearest rivals. They had not won the title in 44

years. And they are owned by wealthy bonus. It was a combination

of factors which made it a very good story. One that would appeal

to none sports events. A number of US say that we don't object to the

coverage of such events in the news bulletins, but that you only did it,

in a series age, it should not lead the news. I think we still continue

to cover those very serious issues. But sport is an important part of

the fabric of our society. The millions of people spend money on

argue that the scenes you saw on Monday, the celebration scenes,

were great to see. People were so happy. News should not just be

about bad news. It also has to be about reflecting on the joy of

people. But was the news channel right to show more than two hours

life on Monday evening of those victory celebrations? I think it

was a big live event. Certainly the audience figures reflect that

audiences of the Channel enjoy watching big life events. You saw

the newspapers the following day. We don't judge ourselves by them,

but there were pictures all over the front pages of that Parade.

don't you think sport should stay in the sports section of the news

rather than overriding things like potential collapse of the euro?

think it does. I work in sport and we understand that we have to know

our place in the general scheme. thans

than sport often. But it is something that excites the nation.

A large part of the nation enjoying it, a passionate about it. It's

number of complaints on a slightly different topic, the new set. The

comments range from it too much distracting moving images,

reflections on the table of the presenters, some people find it too

dark. Have you got the setting right yet always there a need to

tweak it? We are very pleased with the new said. It is quite modern.

And we have had a lot of quite positive feedback. We take on board

change change sets, they would be to

everybody's taste. We understand that and we listen to the feedback.

Thank you. One source of information about

Manchester City's parade was the BBC News website. But it may have

Apology for the loss of subtitles for 42 seconds

been a bit too eager to get the We are told that a version of the

story had been prepared to run at 6pm and was inadvertently made life.

Also provoking reaction among viewers was a run of stories on a

Breakfast. Police arrest a second person on suspicion of murder after

a house fire kills five children. Jennifer had son has fend

prosecutors after her former brother-in-law was convicted of

killing three people in her family. John Baxter rang us with these

thoughts. I have been watching this morning's news. The two leading

items are long stories about murder. And then we have a Sirte story

about a murder. Why on earth is the BBC spending so much time on

murder? The most high-profile complaint about the news this week

came from the recently re-elected mayor of London, Boris Johnson.

During the mayoral campaign, he wrote, he sometimes felt his chief

opponent was the local BBC News. He described the prevailing view in

the newsrooms as corporate us, defeatist, NT business, Euro-phile,

and biased to the left. Corporations -- he added that we

need a Tory end no mucking about. Typically colourful views, and not

Apology for the loss of subtitles for 42 seconds

isolated ones. Several viewers Our research suggests that

audiences continue to trust our journalism. Whatever the outcome, a

commitment to impartiality poor remain. On Wednesday, the BBC Trust

announced its inclusions on plans to save money. The strategy known

as delivering quality first. Following a public consultation,

some planned cuts such as those to local radio, have been scaled back.

But some news summaries are to disappear. That will be no great

Finally, most parts of the UK have seemed more rain this week. That

may bring a groom for many of us but maybe it shouldn't.

headline for today is drier and brighter. That will be welcome