well, we put blodwen's comment to bbc news and received this reply. matters of less importance now — at least according to angela, who called our voice mail recently to complain about celebrities featuring on the news. she'd heard about the reunion of the noughties band girls aloud several times that day. so by the time it came up again on the 6:00 news on bbc one, she'd had enough. and we're talking to girls aloud as they announce a reunion tour. i'm fed up with the amount of showbiz news that gets put on the bbc when it's supposed to be a news program. the fact that a pop group are getting back together is not news. if you want to have that sort of stuff to broadcast, have a special show so people who are interested in that can go and watch that show. but there's more important things going on, notjust in britain, but throughout the world. we asked bbc news why a forthcoming concert tour had been important enough to make news bulletins and received this reply for angela. last week, the bbc announced it was embarking on what it's calling the "digital

well, we put blodwen's comment to bbc news and received this reply.k — we mentioned newsnight last week — and others expanded. as promised, we'rejoined today to discuss the bbc�*s plans for the future of news byjonathan munro, the deputy chief executive of bbc news. viewers have been writing in. let's have a look at some of their comments, matthew thomas wrote in about the plans for newsnight. jr owen told us: janet leslie said: lesley reeves said: well, jonathan, as i say, is with me now, jonathan munro. thank you for coming on newswatch. could you clarify first how many, if any, journalistjobs have been lost in this round of cuts and in the last year since you embarked on this whole process? well, actually, we were increasing the number of people working for bbc news as a result of these plans, the ones that we're talking about today, by about 20 people. so we are reducing newsnight. we're taking out the reporting team, for example, but we're opening up some reporting jobs elsewhere in bbc news, in investigations, in specialisms like housing, for ex