:00:29. > :00:34.resignation of Alex Ferguson be confined to the sports bulletins.
:00:34. > :00:40.There are sad and important things going on in the world. Surely
:00:40. > :00:48.football should come down the line on an important news broadcast.
:00:48. > :00:57.Other UK up success at the national collections ready such a huge news
:00:57. > :01:03.issue. They call Ferguson time when the Manchester United need a
:01:03. > :01:08.crucial goal. Gently coached by Alex Ferguson on the goal line. You
:01:09. > :01:18.may have been objecting to the time on Alex Ferguson on the news watch
:01:19. > :01:22.
:01:22. > :01:25.this week. Sir Alex Ferguson, shock news. I switched on the One O'clock
:01:25. > :01:32.News on Wednesday expecting to hear about the speech of the Queen and
:01:32. > :01:39.the opening of Parliament and the pomp and ceremony. I heard headline
:01:39. > :01:45.news, the fact that Alex Ferguson had resigned from Manchester United.
:01:45. > :01:49.It will cut ten minutes. I kept thinking it would stop. But it went
:01:49. > :01:55.on for ten minutes. It went back to when he started at Manchester
:01:55. > :01:59.United. I was appalled. To think that Alex Ferguson was more
:01:59. > :02:04.important than what was going on in parliament that day. There are lots
:02:04. > :02:10.of people like myself who are very angry that the Queen was second
:02:11. > :02:16.fiddle to a football manager. I cannot believe that the BBC could
:02:16. > :02:20.behave in that way. If BBC journalists did get excited by the
:02:20. > :02:30.resignation, they were not the only ones. It was mentioned 6 million
:02:30. > :02:51.
:02:51. > :02:56.times on Twitter within 24 hours. Following in the footsteps of Alex
:02:56. > :03:01.Ferguson has been described as the impossible job. It also featured
:03:01. > :03:08.prominently on Thursday as news of the employment of the new manager
:03:08. > :03:13.surfaced. Hundreds of viewers continue to give the BBC the
:03:13. > :03:18.hairdryer treatment. Even yesterday, the first announcement was that
:03:18. > :03:22.they have appointed a new manager for Manchester United. The world is
:03:22. > :03:27.a sad place. There are lots of sad and important things going on in
:03:28. > :03:32.the world. Surely football should come way down the line, with an
:03:32. > :03:37.important news broadcast. Is she correct? Did football dominate the
:03:37. > :03:43.news too much this week? This is the man in charge of the news
:03:43. > :03:46.channel to address that. The first question is about the news on the
:03:46. > :03:56.day, ten minutes, a third of the news time given to the resignation
:03:56. > :03:57.
:03:57. > :04:01.look at the coverage across the morning. Everybody saw the state of
:04:01. > :04:06.the opening Parliament on the BBC Parliament Programme. We know Alex
:04:06. > :04:11.Ferguson was highly significant. But interested a great deal of the
:04:11. > :04:17.audience. We chose to lead the news with Alex Ferguson but we also
:04:17. > :04:21.maintained detailed coverage of the Queen's speech. A key seat in the
:04:21. > :04:28.context of the morning's Ewing, I think we gave a weight to the
:04:28. > :04:31.Queen's speech. Proportion is the key to this issue. Many people sit
:04:31. > :04:37.down at 11 o'clock, would not a package have been enough. He was
:04:37. > :04:44.caught at the treatment as if he was a major politician. He was just
:04:44. > :04:49.a football manager. We need to their mind that many people do not
:04:49. > :04:53.like football. We need to look very carefully at when we give a sports
:04:53. > :05:00.story strong prominence. His departure after such a long time in
:05:00. > :05:06.charge of what is the biggest sporting team from around the world
:05:06. > :05:14.and the huge interest from the world's media meant it was on a
:05:14. > :05:18.scale above the normal story. is part of the viewer's concern,
:05:18. > :05:23.party leaders go on about who their favourite team is an people should
:05:23. > :05:28.keep that monster in check given so many people do not care about
:05:28. > :05:33.football. But a lot of people do care about the biggest sports
:05:33. > :05:38.stories. It was not just a bigger stake for the sports website, it
:05:38. > :05:44.was the most read story on our news website. What about the Queen's
:05:44. > :05:48.Speech, there are major Bills on immigration, it feels that this
:05:48. > :05:53.this -- story was seen as more important? If you look at the
:05:53. > :05:58.coverage across the day, you had two very significant stories, with
:05:59. > :06:02.a great deal of audience interest around the stories. If you take one
:06:02. > :06:07.Bolton out of time, and a set of decisions made about the time
:06:07. > :06:12.meanness of the stories, later in the day on the five o'clock news
:06:12. > :06:17.hour we were left with the Queen's Speech. We knew we had two big
:06:17. > :06:24.stories, we needed to make sure both were covered in real depth and
:06:24. > :06:30.good strong coverage. We felt we did that are both -- across both
:06:30. > :06:36.stories. You have been giving us your reactions to many issues this
:06:36. > :06:41.week including the way the United Kingdom Independence Party's
:06:41. > :06:45.performance in the local elections was reported. This is a piece
:06:45. > :06:49.containing some flash photography. It today proved anything, it is
:06:49. > :06:57.that Nigel Farhad is a man who reaches the parts that other
:06:57. > :07:01.politicians cannot reach. The cause of her celebration, the fact that
:07:01. > :07:06.UKIP recently dismissed as clowns by a minister got a quarter of the
:07:06. > :07:09.vote giving not just the Tories but all the other parties a bloody nose.
:07:09. > :07:13.But that figure of winning a quarter of the vote did not tell
:07:13. > :07:17.the whole story according to a phone message from David Gray's.
:07:18. > :07:27.His analysis of the number suggests the elections were not such a
:07:28. > :07:28.
:07:28. > :07:35.triumph for the party is the BBC's Them. The vast majority of the
:07:35. > :07:41.seats they lost. Looking at the BBC coverage, you would not think that
:07:41. > :07:47.another party gained 6% of the seas. They won less than half as many
:07:47. > :07:53.seats as the Liberal Democrats, who had a disastrous election. They won
:07:53. > :07:58.half as many seats as the Liberals. They won fewer seats than
:07:58. > :08:04.independent councillors who have no party backing behind them. I think
:08:04. > :08:12.the BBC fell to put it in context. Other viewers agreed there was too
:08:12. > :08:22.much excitement shine at the coverage of you kit and Mr Nigel
:08:22. > :08:36.
:08:36. > :08:43.You might expect the voters to be delighted with all of this but this
:08:43. > :08:50.man was not as he explained in this fine message. I think you need to
:08:50. > :08:56.get your act together on the news. I voted for UKIP this time. As did
:08:56. > :09:03.many people I know in the county council elections. I am not a
:09:03. > :09:07.member of UKIP but I object to well as capitalising of protest voters.
:09:07. > :09:12.We are not protest voters. We thought it through and we think it
:09:12. > :09:19.is about time we had a change. Wednesday morning, breakfast had
:09:19. > :09:29.this is one of the headlines. holiday nightmare. We meet the
:09:29. > :09:30.
:09:30. > :09:35.family asked to pay �54 for four ice-creams we more. We were told
:09:35. > :09:40.that for holidaymakers were told for holiday makers in Rome were
:09:40. > :09:47.victims of a nightmare event. Was it the kidnap, know they paid a
:09:47. > :09:52.high price for ice-cream. This man spotted the item online and see
:09:52. > :09:55.this is hardly a village story for the BBC website. You also included
:09:55. > :10:05.it on morning television and invited the family to the studio.
:10:05. > :10:07.
:10:07. > :10:14.This is something you put on a Several of the picked up on last
:10:14. > :10:24.poss Mac week protest from Vic Mauro. But the lead-up to the
:10:24. > :10:24.
:10:24. > :11:06.Apology for the loss of subtitles for 41 seconds
:11:06. > :11:12.headlines can be excessively long A man pointed us to this longer
:11:12. > :11:17.version which he found running for 85 seconds. Thank you for your