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make a plan to get people home in two weeks. At ten o'clock, Fiona | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
Bruce will be here with a full round-up of all of the day 's news, | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
now it is time for Hello and welcome to Newswatch | :00:00. | :00:10. | |
with me, Samira Ahmed. The Queen and the PM overheard on | :00:11. | :00:20. | |
camera, but where is the line between what is said in public and | :00:21. | :00:25. | |
what is fair to broadcast for publish consumption? | :00:26. | :00:27. | |
And who should get to speak for leave and remain when it comes to | :00:28. | :00:31. | |
broadcasters casting their big referendum debate programmes? | :00:32. | :00:37. | |
First, it was a big week for the BBC, with the publication on | :00:38. | :00:41. | |
Thursday of the government's White Paper on the corporation 's future. | :00:42. | :00:45. | |
The proposals unveiled for renewing its Royal Charter were the result of | :00:46. | :00:49. | |
intense negotiation and ferocious argument. | :00:50. | :00:51. | |
This had been highlighted in Sunday's BAFTA awards where the | :00:52. | :00:55. | |
drama was Paul was one of the big winners. The director and a standing | :00:56. | :01:03. | |
over ocean, speaking out on what he thinks our government attacks on the | :01:04. | :01:06. | |
corporation. In many ways, our broadcasting, the BBC and Channel 4, | :01:07. | :01:12. | |
they are attempting to this rate, it is the envy of the world and we | :01:13. | :01:16. | |
should stand up and fight for it, not let it go by default. The | :01:17. | :01:20. | |
director of Wolf Hall making the news. | :01:21. | :01:27. | |
David Mellor was one of a number of view was concerned about what he | :01:28. | :01:30. | |
called an apparent lack of impartiality. He said the | :01:31. | :01:32. | |
following... Now, it is not everyday that we hear | :01:33. | :01:59. | |
one of Britain's leaders making apparently private comments which | :02:00. | :02:03. | |
may offend a foreign power. So, for that to happen twice on was | :02:04. | :02:09. | |
extraordinary. We have some leaders of fantastically corrupt countries | :02:10. | :02:10. | |
coming to Britain. Those pieces footage were first | :02:11. | :02:56. | |
recorded at a reception at Buckingham Palace, marking the Queen | :02:57. | :02:59. | |
's 90th birthday, then a palace garden party and were both filmed by | :03:00. | :03:04. | |
a long-standing cameraman wearing a royal badge but working jointly for | :03:05. | :03:10. | |
the BBC, ITN and Sky. Given potential for embarrassment, it | :03:11. | :03:13. | |
surprised some viewers the footage came to be broadcast at all. But | :03:14. | :03:16. | |
after the material was seen and heard at the BBC it was headline | :03:17. | :03:20. | |
news here for the rest of the day. In a moment we will explore whether | :03:21. | :03:23. | |
it should have been. Before that, a reminder of some | :03:24. | :03:27. | |
previous occasions when what public figures said in private had a wider | :03:28. | :03:33. | |
airing than they would have liked. The primer Mr has form on this, in | :03:34. | :03:39. | |
2014 he was heard boasting tomb Michael Bloomberg, the New York | :03:40. | :03:43. | |
mayor, saying how happy the Queen was on the referendum on Scottish | :03:44. | :03:45. | |
independence. He was again caught out off-camera | :03:46. | :03:50. | |
but on microphone preparing for a speech in Yorkshire with a joke that | :03:51. | :03:56. | |
may not have gone down well with his audience. | :03:57. | :04:01. | |
Previous prime ministers have also forgotten microphones were on, Sir | :04:02. | :04:06. | |
John Major made industrial language back in 1993 about some of his | :04:07. | :04:09. | |
Eurosceptic Cabinet colleagues after he finished giving an interview. | :04:10. | :04:14. | |
And, the sound of President George Bush greeting the British Prime | :04:15. | :04:23. | |
Minister with" yo Blair" in 2006 at a summit. | :04:24. | :04:27. | |
In the 2010 election campaign, Gordon Brown described this woman as | :04:28. | :04:32. | |
a bigoted woman, which caused a major headache. | :04:33. | :04:38. | |
The Royal family has also faced embarrassment of this kind before. | :04:39. | :04:42. | |
Prince Charles was heard describing the BBC royal correspondence | :04:43. | :04:47. | |
Nicholas Witchell as "Awful" at a photocall in 2005. | :04:48. | :04:50. | |
Interesting and often amusing insights into view is often kept | :04:51. | :04:54. | |
behind closed doors, but the broadcasters right to share with the | :04:55. | :05:00. | |
rest of us, this yo comments they would rather were kept secret. | :05:01. | :05:05. | |
One of our viewers joins us now from Brighton. | :05:06. | :05:09. | |
Claire, what bothers you about this coverage? I thought it was a private | :05:10. | :05:14. | |
discussion the Queen was having with a guest at the Buckingham Palace | :05:15. | :05:18. | |
garden party. And it seemed to have been picked up on microphones, but | :05:19. | :05:24. | |
it was The Choice of the news team to run this as a news item on | :05:25. | :05:32. | |
Wednesday, setting the tone for news items for the rest of the day -- | :05:33. | :05:35. | |
elite news item. I thought it was wholly inappropriate. The Royal | :05:36. | :05:41. | |
family are used to be being filmed this way, the fact the camera was | :05:42. | :05:45. | |
there, they may have miscalculated what was over hard. But the argument | :05:46. | :05:51. | |
is it is a good and real insight into real challenges -- overheard. | :05:52. | :05:55. | |
Quite, but I think the references to the Chinese state visit, that was | :05:56. | :05:59. | |
something clearly worked on very hard by a great number of diplomats, | :06:00. | :06:04. | |
and I'm sure a very broad team of people, to deliver what, in effect | :06:05. | :06:09. | |
at the time, was regarded as a very successful event. In choosing to Ed | :06:10. | :06:15. | |
this piece of what I would regard as tabloid journalism, sensationalising | :06:16. | :06:19. | |
comments where the Queen was clearly involved in a private discussion, I | :06:20. | :06:24. | |
think it is wholly inappropriate -- air. The damage potentially caused | :06:25. | :06:28. | |
by using footage like this from a broader diplomatic perspective I | :06:29. | :06:32. | |
think also needs to be taken into account. The BBC officially an | :06:33. | :06:35. | |
saying anything about this footage but I know there has been much | :06:36. | :06:39. | |
discussion, including by journalists who would say it was not damaging, | :06:40. | :06:43. | |
and certainly David Cameron 's comments about Nigeria and | :06:44. | :06:47. | |
Afghanistan, about general corruption, was something most | :06:48. | :06:50. | |
people would hardly dispute? It was regarded more as an insight and | :06:51. | :06:57. | |
perhaps honesty? I don't agree at all, I think this is around trust, | :06:58. | :07:04. | |
and principles, of communicating. And also the relationship between | :07:05. | :07:10. | |
the palace and the BBC as well. I think on this occasion the BBC has | :07:11. | :07:14. | |
gone too far and taken the wrong decision on choosing to Ed this | :07:15. | :07:19. | |
story. And, making it the lead news item that day -- air. I think thou | :07:20. | :07:24. | |
more serious stories going on in the world. | :07:25. | :07:31. | |
All of the main broadcasters around the stories in the end, do you think | :07:32. | :07:36. | |
you are out of step with what many members of the public feel they | :07:37. | :07:38. | |
should know? We know the story about China was | :07:39. | :07:43. | |
censored in that country and not reported, is that what we want? I | :07:44. | :07:46. | |
don't think so at all but I think this comes down to a set of | :07:47. | :07:50. | |
operating principles on behalf of the BBC, and item on the news to | :07:51. | :07:57. | |
watch every day, relying on the fact the BBC is trusted, trusted by the | :07:58. | :08:03. | |
UK population, and I think it should continue to be, -- to concentrate on | :08:04. | :08:09. | |
creating good quality news stories, and I honestly feel on this occasion | :08:10. | :08:14. | |
that this was very close to tabloid journalism, which I do not think has | :08:15. | :08:18. | |
a place on the BBC at all. Claire Goring, thank you so much. Do | :08:19. | :08:27. | |
let us know your thoughts on that or any aspect of BBC News. | :08:28. | :08:31. | |
Details of how to contact us in a moment. | :08:32. | :08:33. | |
Before that, some of your other comments in the last few days, when | :08:34. | :08:37. | |
arguments over the forthcoming EU referendum have got evermore | :08:38. | :08:39. | |
intense. One bone of contention is the | :08:40. | :08:44. | |
make-up of various debates planned by broadcasters over the next few | :08:45. | :08:46. | |
weeks. Robert Paxton has been the subject | :08:47. | :08:50. | |
of furious attacks from the official vote Leave group after ITV, where he | :08:51. | :08:55. | |
now works, announced they were inviting Ukip Bedene Nigel Farage | :08:56. | :08:58. | |
and not one of their representatives onto a programme with the Prime | :08:59. | :09:01. | |
Minister. Meanwhile, the BBC has faced | :09:02. | :09:04. | |
criticism from the other direction after suggestions it would not be | :09:05. | :09:09. | |
inviting Nigel Farage onto its own debate programme, at Wembley Arena | :09:10. | :09:12. | |
two days before the referendum. The corporation says it has not yet | :09:13. | :09:20. | |
decided who will be on the programme but the Ukip reader has already | :09:21. | :09:22. | |
expressed concern there are plans to freeze him out, which has been | :09:23. | :09:25. | |
echoed to us by Eric Adamson, who writes this... | :09:26. | :09:41. | |
Who takes part in televised debates before a vote and what format they | :09:42. | :09:47. | |
have has of course been a fraught topic before, with arguments over | :09:48. | :09:52. | |
David Cameron 's participation in such programmes before the last | :09:53. | :09:54. | |
general election. If anything, the problem is tricky at this time | :09:55. | :10:01. | |
around as the vote Leave group, Boris Johnson and Michael Gove, | :10:02. | :10:08. | |
boast Conservative MPs -- are both Conservative MPs. It seems the BBC | :10:09. | :10:12. | |
live rally may go ahead without the participation of him or George | :10:13. | :10:15. | |
Osborne, but this is something that we will certainly keep our eye on. | :10:16. | :10:20. | |
Finally, the EU referendum has made one particular ubiquitous. | :10:21. | :10:33. | |
One viewer left this message... No English dictionaries have any | :10:34. | :10:37. | |
reference to the word Brexit, it is not a word, not a recognised word in | :10:38. | :10:42. | |
the EU language. -- British land which, why use it? It is used by | :10:43. | :10:46. | |
people in the media who do not have any regard to English language. | :10:47. | :10:51. | |
-- language. Thank you for all of your comments this week, if you want | :10:52. | :10:56. | |
to share your opinions on BBC news or current affairs, or even appear | :10:57. | :10:59. | |
on the programme, call us on this number, or e-mail at this address. | :11:00. | :11:06. | |
You can find us on Twitter, and do have a look at the website. That's | :11:07. | :11:14. | |
all from us, we will be back to hear your thoughts about BBC News | :11:15. | :11:16. | |
coverage again next week. Goodbye. | :11:17. | :11:22. |