:00:00. > :00:00.saving and 87-year-old woman. At 10pm Fiona Bruce will be here was
:00:00. > :00:17.a full round-up of the day's News, first, time for Newswatch. Hello and
:00:18. > :00:23.welcome to Newswatch. Coming up later: Darling, you have been
:00:24. > :00:29.sacked. How did Louis Van Gaal's wife find out the news from the BBC
:00:30. > :00:32.website before he did? And with Jose Mourinho confirmed as his successor
:00:33. > :00:42.six days after we were told he got the job, but BBC jumped the gun? --
:00:43. > :00:47.did the. But first, the rhetoric of the debate of British membership of
:00:48. > :00:50.the European Union has noticeably heightened in recent days with less
:00:51. > :00:55.than a month to go to the referendum claims are being made by one side
:00:56. > :01:01.and disputed by the other on a daily basis. Here are a couple of examples
:01:02. > :01:05.this week. Vital public services could face further cuts, benefit
:01:06. > :01:09.could go the same way, taxes would rise, austerity could be extended by
:01:10. > :01:13.two years... That was the gloomy outlook published today by one of
:01:14. > :01:21.the most respected UK economic organisations, the IFA is.
:01:22. > :01:25.Which way to the worst crisis yet in A? Stay in the European Union and
:01:26. > :01:30.watch what's become overwhelmed by demands of treatment from millions
:01:31. > :01:36.of new migrants. Scared? The leave campaign were doing their best.
:01:37. > :01:38.Voting to leave the EU would trigger a year-long recession, the bleak
:01:39. > :01:44.forecast from the Treasury. But the way addictions and counter
:01:45. > :01:46.predictions have been presented on BBC News or that Richard Green. He
:01:47. > :02:19.wrote... Thursday saw the first of the BBC
:02:20. > :02:27.televised debates leading to the referendum, focusing on younger
:02:28. > :02:32.voters and presented in Glasgow. We don't give ?350 million a week to
:02:33. > :02:37.the EU... If you look at how much we give us how much we get back, and we
:02:38. > :02:42.do get some back, there is a net difference of around ?10 billion a
:02:43. > :02:45.year... The campaign will throw out a figure that you will rubbish, and
:02:46. > :02:50.then you will produce wonder they will rubbish. What do we do? I have
:02:51. > :02:54.no idea what to do and I blame you lot.
:02:55. > :02:55.The morning after that programme Richard Collins was irritated,
:02:56. > :03:09.writing... The casting and scheduling of the
:03:10. > :03:14.other televised debates has been a fraught issue and in the past week
:03:15. > :03:17.the BBC announced there will be too special Question Time programmes,
:03:18. > :03:21.one with the Prime Minister, the other with Michael Gove, after it
:03:22. > :03:25.became clear that David Cameron would not share a stage with an
:03:26. > :03:29.opposing fellow conservative. We welcome your views on that and any
:03:30. > :03:36.aspect of the busy coverage. Last Saturday was a day of mixed emotions
:03:37. > :03:41.for the football manager Louis Van Gaal, first he won the FA Cup final,
:03:42. > :03:48.then, here was the headline on the BBC news bulletin...
:03:49. > :03:52.How that stunning goal won the FA Cup for Manchester United. But
:03:53. > :04:00.winning was not enough to save the job of Louis Van Gaal who will be
:04:01. > :04:04.replaced by Jose Mourinho. But confirmation he had lost his job
:04:05. > :04:08.did not come until Monday and it was not until Friday, six days later,
:04:09. > :04:13.that we knew for sure his replacement was chose a Marine you.
:04:14. > :04:19.How come BBC sport's editor reported the fate of Louis Van Gaal that
:04:20. > :04:22.Saturday afternoon, minutes after he lifted the cup? And how come the
:04:23. > :04:27.manager apparently discovered the news shortly after his wife read
:04:28. > :04:30.about it on the BBC website? The strange Case of news being reported
:04:31. > :04:32.well before it actually happened concerned some viewers. Gregory
:04:33. > :04:50.asked the... We received this phone message on
:04:51. > :04:53.Sunday, echoing that view. I would like to complain about the fact that
:04:54. > :05:01.the manager of Manchester United is being harassed by the BBC news. They
:05:02. > :05:05.are just having a witchhunt, they are saying that he is going to be
:05:06. > :05:12.replaced. Yes, you most probably is. The Manchester United club have made
:05:13. > :05:17.no comment about it whatsoever, and the man in question is saying that
:05:18. > :05:25.he has not been officially told. Can you please explain to me, a mere
:05:26. > :05:30.mortal, how this can possibly be news? To respond to those point I am
:05:31. > :05:36.joined by the BBC head of sports journalism. What viewers are saying
:05:37. > :05:40.is until it is official and it is not news. It felt, to them, wrong
:05:41. > :05:46.for the BBC to broadcast it when they initially did.
:05:47. > :05:49.I want to challenge that, in the sense that if we waited just for
:05:50. > :05:55.things that artificial than actually we would not find out many of the
:05:56. > :05:59.facts that exist, or when we want to find out them. Actually it was based
:06:00. > :06:02.on credible reporting, from experienced journalist, who
:06:03. > :06:05.discovered that the story, and having known about it, because it
:06:06. > :06:11.was already breaking in other places, it would be very ought not
:06:12. > :06:15.to start reporting ourselves. Did you know that Louis Van Gaal did not
:06:16. > :06:18.know this when you broke the story? That his wife would we did on the
:06:19. > :06:22.news website? There was no way of knowing for sure
:06:23. > :06:25.what he knew, I don't think many of us know what he knew and when he
:06:26. > :06:30.knew but I suspect he knew more about it than most of us have come
:06:31. > :06:36.to learn at this stage. But I don't know what he knew and when he knew
:06:37. > :06:43.it. Dan Rowan got the story and it was broken on the BBC breaking use
:06:44. > :06:46.Twitter feed. What was the source? Obviously we don't reveal our
:06:47. > :06:49.sources but I can assure you it was a range of credible sources, not
:06:50. > :06:54.just run down, but other people within the BBC sports department who
:06:55. > :06:57.had worked on the story for a long time and we would not have reported
:06:58. > :07:02.it had we not be certain about the information. Was there a process of
:07:03. > :07:07.authentication? Or was it a case of, we know this person therefore it is
:07:08. > :07:11.true? It was the culmination of weeks and months of work and
:07:12. > :07:15.expertise in this area covering Manchester United. The combination
:07:16. > :07:19.of that knowledge, and the contacts that have been built up over many
:07:20. > :07:22.years, and our understanding of the credibility and knowledge of the
:07:23. > :07:26.sources and that by the time we reported it in the way we did we
:07:27. > :07:30.were absolutely confident of the story and subsequent events have
:07:31. > :07:35.shown the report was accurate. It was nearly one week before Jose
:07:36. > :07:40.Mourinho was confirmed as manager. People think there was an agenda.
:07:41. > :07:43.Whether it was Manchester United or chose a Marine you leaking it
:07:44. > :07:48.deliberately, it looks shabby, and what was the BBC doing enabling it?
:07:49. > :07:51.I would push back on that I think it is harsh. What we were doing is what
:07:52. > :07:56.we are meant to do, as journalists try to find out what is going on. We
:07:57. > :08:02.found out that Manchester United reached April and we agreement with
:08:03. > :08:05.Jose Mourinho to take over and that Louis Van Gaal would be sacked
:08:06. > :08:08.regardless of the FA Cup final result and once we knew that it
:08:09. > :08:11.would be very odd not to share it with the audience even though it
:08:12. > :08:16.obviously took Manchester United a little while to decide what they
:08:17. > :08:19.would do about it. The reality was that help those talks and come to
:08:20. > :08:23.that preliminary agreement, whether they chose to help lose fine goal or
:08:24. > :08:26.not is ultimately up to them and their question for them to answer.
:08:27. > :08:30.There's also a question about whether the BBC should have enabled
:08:31. > :08:35.them. The question is whether the BBC was being used by a big
:08:36. > :08:41.corporation to do some quite shabby business. To serve their gender. We
:08:42. > :08:44.were not being used by anyone. We were doing what we always try to do
:08:45. > :08:48.which is trying to find out what was happening, try to make sure that we
:08:49. > :08:53.on, get to the bottom of what is going on, and then share that with
:08:54. > :08:57.our audience. Very authors to find that this was a situation that was
:08:58. > :08:59.the case and the not to share and that Italy audience. Even though
:09:00. > :09:01.other people reporting. That would be a kind of very odd position for
:09:02. > :09:13.us to be in. Thanks much. One or two of your other comments
:09:14. > :09:17.this week. You may have noticed that this Sunday brings the return to our
:09:18. > :09:23.screens of one of the best-known BBC brands. The revamped Top Gear has
:09:24. > :09:26.received lots of the city and media attention with airtime on BBC News
:09:27. > :09:29.including breakfast and the Victoria Derbyshire show. That prompted David
:09:30. > :09:54.from Milton Keynes to write. Finally, do you spend time looking
:09:55. > :09:59.at the background to live interviews instead of concentrating on what
:10:00. > :10:02.they are saying? Some of our viewers do, particularly when breakfast
:10:03. > :10:07.presenters in Salford interview guests in London in a spot
:10:08. > :10:11.overlooking the BBC newsroom. Look at those men coming in on the left
:10:12. > :10:15.of the screen. Now watch another interview shown on a different day.
:10:16. > :10:23.There are the men again. And again. And again. Spot that man with the
:10:24. > :10:29.backpack. Yes, that is him. And once more. And then there is that woman
:10:30. > :10:33.with the blue dress. Also featuring in this interview. Don Barber is
:10:34. > :10:41.intrigued. Who is the lady in blue? For that matter, what about the man
:10:42. > :10:55.with the rucksack? The strange thing is that on other
:10:56. > :10:59.programmes the same camera is used with a proper life background. So we
:11:00. > :11:01.asked the breakfast why they use recorded footage on a loop. A
:11:02. > :11:16.spokesman said... Does that solve it for you? Thank
:11:17. > :11:21.you for your comments. If you want to share your opinions on news and
:11:22. > :11:31.current affairs or even appear on our programme you can call us, or
:11:32. > :11:37.e-mail. You can find us on Twitter, and you can watch previous
:11:38. > :11:42.discussions on our website. That is all from us. We will be back to hear
:11:43. > :11:44.your thoughts about BBC News coverage again next week.