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resignation of Alex Ferguson be confined to the sports bulletins.

There are sad and important things going on in the world. Surely

football should come down the line on an important news broadcast.

Other UK up success at the national collections ready such a huge news

issue. They call Ferguson time when the Manchester United need a

crucial goal. Gently coached by Alex Ferguson on the goal line. You

may have been objecting to the time on Alex Ferguson on the news watch

this week. Sir Alex Ferguson, shock news. I switched on the One O'clock

News on Wednesday expecting to hear about the speech of the Queen and

the opening of Parliament and the pomp and ceremony. I heard headline

news, the fact that Alex Ferguson had resigned from Manchester United.

It will cut ten minutes. I kept thinking it would stop. But it went

on for ten minutes. It went back to when he started at Manchester

United. I was appalled. To think that Alex Ferguson was more

important than what was going on in parliament that day. There are lots

of people like myself who are very angry that the Queen was second

fiddle to a football manager. I cannot believe that the BBC could

behave in that way. If BBC journalists did get excited by the

resignation, they were not the only ones. It was mentioned 6 million

times on Twitter within 24 hours. Following in the footsteps of Alex

Ferguson has been described as the impossible job. It also featured

prominently on Thursday as news of the employment of the new manager

surfaced. Hundreds of viewers continue to give the BBC the

hairdryer treatment. Even yesterday, the first announcement was that

they have appointed a new manager for Manchester United. The world is

a sad place. There are lots of sad and important things going on in

the world. Surely football should come way down the line, with an

important news broadcast. Is she correct? Did football dominate the

news too much this week? This is the man in charge of the news

channel to address that. The first question is about the news on the

day, ten minutes, a third of the news time given to the resignation

look at the coverage across the morning. Everybody saw the state of

the opening Parliament on the BBC Parliament Programme. We know Alex

Ferguson was highly significant. But interested a great deal of the

audience. We chose to lead the news with Alex Ferguson but we also

maintained detailed coverage of the Queen's speech. A key seat in the

context of the morning's Ewing, I think we gave a weight to the

Queen's speech. Proportion is the key to this issue. Many people sit

down at 11 o'clock, would not a package have been enough. He was

caught at the treatment as if he was a major politician. He was just

a football manager. We need to their mind that many people do not

like football. We need to look very carefully at when we give a sports

story strong prominence. His departure after such a long time in

charge of what is the biggest sporting team from around the world

and the huge interest from the world's media meant it was on a

scale above the normal story. is part of the viewer's concern,

party leaders go on about who their favourite team is an people should

keep that monster in check given so many people do not care about

football. But a lot of people do care about the biggest sports

stories. It was not just a bigger stake for the sports website, it

was the most read story on our news website. What about the Queen's

Speech, there are major Bills on immigration, it feels that this

this -- story was seen as more important? If you look at the

coverage across the day, you had two very significant stories, with

a great deal of audience interest around the stories. If you take one

Bolton out of time, and a set of decisions made about the time

meanness of the stories, later in the day on the five o'clock news

hour we were left with the Queen's Speech. We knew we had two big

stories, we needed to make sure both were covered in real depth and

good strong coverage. We felt we did that are both -- across both

stories. You have been giving us your reactions to many issues this

week including the way the United Kingdom Independence Party's

performance in the local elections was reported. This is a piece

containing some flash photography. It today proved anything, it is

that Nigel Farhad is a man who reaches the parts that other

politicians cannot reach. The cause of her celebration, the fact that

UKIP recently dismissed as clowns by a minister got a quarter of the

vote giving not just the Tories but all the other parties a bloody nose.

But that figure of winning a quarter of the vote did not tell

the whole story according to a phone message from David Gray's.

His analysis of the number suggests the elections were not such a

triumph for the party is the BBC's Them. The vast majority of the

seats they lost. Looking at the BBC coverage, you would not think that

another party gained 6% of the seas. They won less than half as many

seats as the Liberal Democrats, who had a disastrous election. They won

half as many seats as the Liberals. They won fewer seats than

independent councillors who have no party backing behind them. I think

the BBC fell to put it in context. Other viewers agreed there was too

much excitement shine at the coverage of you kit and Mr Nigel

You might expect the voters to be delighted with all of this but this

man was not as he explained in this fine message. I think you need to

get your act together on the news. I voted for UKIP this time. As did

many people I know in the county council elections. I am not a

member of UKIP but I object to well as capitalising of protest voters.

We are not protest voters. We thought it through and we think it

is about time we had a change. Wednesday morning, breakfast had

this is one of the headlines. holiday nightmare. We meet the

family asked to pay �54 for four ice-creams we more. We were told

that for holidaymakers were told for holiday makers in Rome were

victims of a nightmare event. Was it the kidnap, know they paid a

high price for ice-cream. This man spotted the item online and see

this is hardly a village story for the BBC website. You also included

it on morning television and invited the family to the studio.

This is something you put on a Several of the picked up on last

poss Mac week protest from Vic Mauro. But the lead-up to the

Apology for the loss of subtitles for 41 seconds

headlines can be excessively long A man pointed us to this longer

version which he found running for 85 seconds. Thank you for your