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constitutional change. It is time for Newswatch. | :00:00. | :00:15. | |
Scores of complaints as the BBC leads the six o'clock News on the | :00:16. | :00:23. | |
sacking of Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho. | :00:24. | :00:30. | |
Tim Peake became the first edition Astra on the International Space | :00:31. | :00:33. | |
Station but did the BBC do it justice? | :00:34. | :00:39. | |
And was the BBC in hyperdrive promoting the latest Star Wars film? | :00:40. | :00:48. | |
Scores of you got in touch about the amount of coverage given to the | :00:49. | :00:52. | |
sacking of Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho which led the six o'clock | :00:53. | :01:00. | |
News on Thursday. Good evening and welcome to the BBC | :01:01. | :01:04. | |
News at six. Chelsea has sacked their most successful manager Jose | :01:05. | :01:09. | |
Mourinho after a terrible start to the season. He led his team to | :01:10. | :01:13. | |
Premier League triumph in May but just seven months later the club has | :01:14. | :01:21. | |
seen a complete reversal of fortune. Many people got in touch with us. I | :01:22. | :01:28. | |
was watching the news and I was surprised to see with everything | :01:29. | :01:31. | |
going on in the world today that the first item should be the sacking of | :01:32. | :01:36. | |
Jose Mourinho. I do not suppose he wanted at 81 but it is only | :01:37. | :01:45. | |
football. It is yet another example of stuff happening in London gets | :01:46. | :01:51. | |
priority. I felt that way and I am a football fan. There are millions out | :01:52. | :01:57. | |
there who are not football fans. I wonder if they have the same | :01:58. | :02:00. | |
concerns that it should have been given slot one. There is bigger | :02:01. | :02:07. | |
stuff. I am an easy-going individual but I was incredulous to see an | :02:08. | :02:16. | |
extended bulletin on the demise of someone, who Jimmy, is an | :02:17. | :02:20. | |
insignificant football celebrity. I have little interest in sport but I | :02:21. | :02:23. | |
can understand there are those who do but on an evening when the Prime | :02:24. | :02:28. | |
Minister was in Europe attempting to make some quite significant | :02:29. | :02:32. | |
decisions on the future of the entire country, to have the or four | :02:33. | :02:40. | |
minutes on this football character and his future at the top of the | :02:41. | :02:46. | |
news did not seem quite right to me. We are joined by the editor of the | :02:47. | :02:50. | |
six o'clock News and the ten o'clock news. Was this really the lead? | :02:51. | :03:00. | |
First of all, I do recognise that parts of the audience do not think | :03:01. | :03:03. | |
sports stories should be at the top of the news bulletin. Some viewers | :03:04. | :03:08. | |
think sports should not be in a news bulletin at all. We did think and | :03:09. | :03:13. | |
discuss this decision long and hard. We have had their claims and | :03:14. | :03:16. | |
counterclaims for this story and other stories so there was a good | :03:17. | :03:22. | |
process and discussion around it. And we do not do read sports stories | :03:23. | :03:26. | |
that often. But in the end it came down to a number of reasons. It is a | :03:27. | :03:31. | |
big football story. Chelsea are the Premier League champions. They have | :03:32. | :03:35. | |
had a spectacular demise of the last six months. Unprecedented for a | :03:36. | :03:38. | |
Premier League champions to potential relegation candidates. | :03:39. | :03:45. | |
There is something within that. Also Jose Mourinho is one of the biggest | :03:46. | :03:49. | |
figures in football, in world football. But also he is a football | :03:50. | :03:56. | |
personality that transcends the sport. Lots of people and viewers | :03:57. | :04:02. | |
know about Jose Mourinho. There is a lot of interest in him as an | :04:03. | :04:06. | |
individual. That takes you to the next part of it. It is more than a | :04:07. | :04:11. | |
football or a sports story in the sense that the Premier League, | :04:12. | :04:15. | |
Premier League clubs, our global brands. This is the biggest football | :04:16. | :04:19. | |
league in the world. This is one of the biggest sporting weeks and plans | :04:20. | :04:24. | |
in the world. And these are global brands with a global interests, not | :04:25. | :04:28. | |
just a UK interest in the story. There is interest around the world. | :04:29. | :04:33. | |
We saw that in our audience teacher after the story emerged. We got a | :04:34. | :04:38. | |
lot of hits on the individual websites. 4 million hits on that | :04:39. | :04:47. | |
story. When the top person goes, the leader of the brand, almost the | :04:48. | :04:53. | |
chief executive, the creative leader of that organisation, that is a | :04:54. | :04:56. | |
story with is a lot of interest. What about The View of a football | :04:57. | :05:02. | |
fan who says the prominence was due to the fact it was a London Premier | :05:03. | :05:06. | |
League club and it just gets more attention. I heard that clip but | :05:07. | :05:11. | |
this had been Manchester United Manchester City there would be | :05:12. | :05:15. | |
similar assessment around that story as well. They are both huge football | :05:16. | :05:19. | |
clubs, huge global brands, and have a resonance beyond simply football. | :05:20. | :05:24. | |
Do you not think that the BBC is setting out a message of importance | :05:25. | :05:28. | |
by the order that puts things in and actually even as the most important | :05:29. | :05:32. | |
story and you could have made this second rest absolutely and that is | :05:33. | :05:37. | |
why we do think and talk about this a lot. There are a number of things | :05:38. | :05:41. | |
we take into consideration. You could read on the unit story every | :05:42. | :05:47. | |
day between now and when the referendum happens. I am not sure | :05:48. | :05:51. | |
that it be a perfect service for audiences either. These are | :05:52. | :05:56. | |
decisions we make. We have a think. The user story rumbles on into next | :05:57. | :06:02. | |
year. The Chelsea story was one which unexpectedly happened | :06:03. | :06:06. | |
yesterday afternoon and was a very current story at six o'clock | :06:07. | :06:15. | |
yesterday. Do let us know your thoughts on that | :06:16. | :06:19. | |
or on any aspect of BBC News. Because of who to contact us at the | :06:20. | :06:23. | |
end of the programme. One of the big stories this week was | :06:24. | :06:29. | |
about Tim Peake, Britain's first official astronaut who went into | :06:30. | :06:32. | |
space to work on the International Space Station. They will spend six | :06:33. | :06:37. | |
months conducting scientific experiments and carrying out | :06:38. | :06:41. | |
educational to encourage young people to do science. Quite an all | :06:42. | :06:54. | |
inspiring moments. Some separation confirmed off the part of the rocket | :06:55. | :07:02. | |
that will separate by stages as it makes its way towards orbits. But | :07:03. | :07:09. | |
some of you were not all that happy with the BBC coverage overall. One | :07:10. | :07:13. | |
viewer got in touch with us. I was interested in the Tim Peake story. I | :07:14. | :07:17. | |
was not interested in the paedophiles and the old friends that | :07:18. | :07:31. | |
added nothing to the story -- was not interested in the peripherals | :07:32. | :07:34. | |
and the old friends that added nothing to the story. So much time | :07:35. | :07:39. | |
discussing things that did not fit into what was happening. You can | :07:40. | :07:45. | |
tell how proud they are by their size of the arrow on his school | :07:46. | :07:51. | |
photo. Who knew then what this little boy would do? Certainly not | :07:52. | :07:57. | |
his school best friends. It is the biggest thing that has happened | :07:58. | :08:04. | |
since I was born. I am proud. The BBC issued this statement in | :08:05. | :08:05. | |
response. And finally you may well be where | :08:06. | :08:27. | |
there is a new science-fiction out the speech. I am talking about Star | :08:28. | :08:33. | |
Wars, the force awakens. Several viewers said the BBC gave it to much | :08:34. | :08:40. | |
coverage. It is premiered in the UK this | :08:41. | :08:45. | |
evening and our man is in Leicester square. It has been very busy. Can I | :08:46. | :09:01. | |
get you to turn around? You have come from? From Germany. Did you | :09:02. | :09:10. | |
make this costume yourself? And you are very excited? I will leave you | :09:11. | :09:15. | |
in peace. Thank you. A pleasure to meet you. If that does not mean | :09:16. | :09:23. | |
anything to you these next three minutes will be even more | :09:24. | :09:26. | |
mysterious. For anyone who doubted me earlier on the one o'clock news | :09:27. | :09:35. | |
when I said I had met and Ewok here he is. | :09:36. | :09:43. | |
Their blanket coverage of Star Wars, to show one item on either side of | :09:44. | :09:47. | |
the premier would have been sufficient. There are more potent | :09:48. | :09:53. | |
things going on in the world than simply another Star Wars film. I am | :09:54. | :09:57. | |
interested in the trachea used by the BBC to select such items because | :09:58. | :10:02. | |
they obviously have strict rules about product basement and yet this | :10:03. | :10:06. | |
product has been advertised so extensively, the advertising has | :10:07. | :10:10. | |
been worth millions. We asked the BBC about this and they issued this | :10:11. | :10:12. | |
statement. That is all from us. Thank you for | :10:13. | :10:43. | |
all your comments this week. If you want to share your opinions on BBC | :10:44. | :10:48. | |
News and current affairs you can contact us. | :10:49. | :11:03. | |
We will be back in the New Year on January eight to hear your thoughts | :11:04. | :11:12. | |
about BBC News coverage. Until then have a happy Christmas and New | :11:13. | :11:13. |