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constitutional change. It is time for Newswatch.

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Scores of complaints as the BBC leads the six o'clock News on the

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sacking of Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho.

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Tim Peake became the first edition Astra on the International Space

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Station but did the BBC do it justice?

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And was the BBC in hyperdrive promoting the latest Star Wars film?

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Scores of you got in touch about the amount of coverage given to the

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sacking of Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho which led the six o'clock

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News on Thursday. Good evening and welcome to the BBC

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News at six. Chelsea has sacked their most successful manager Jose

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Mourinho after a terrible start to the season. He led his team to

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Premier League triumph in May but just seven months later the club has

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seen a complete reversal of fortune. Many people got in touch with us. I

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was watching the news and I was surprised to see with everything

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going on in the world today that the first item should be the sacking of

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Jose Mourinho. I do not suppose he wanted at 81 but it is only

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football. It is yet another example of stuff happening in London gets

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priority. I felt that way and I am a football fan. There are millions out

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there who are not football fans. I wonder if they have the same

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concerns that it should have been given slot one. There is bigger

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stuff. I am an easy-going individual but I was incredulous to see an

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extended bulletin on the demise of someone, who Jimmy, is an

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insignificant football celebrity. I have little interest in sport but I

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can understand there are those who do but on an evening when the Prime

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Minister was in Europe attempting to make some quite significant

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decisions on the future of the entire country, to have the or four

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minutes on this football character and his future at the top of the

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news did not seem quite right to me. We are joined by the editor of the

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six o'clock News and the ten o'clock news. Was this really the lead?

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First of all, I do recognise that parts of the audience do not think

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sports stories should be at the top of the news bulletin. Some viewers

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think sports should not be in a news bulletin at all. We did think and

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discuss this decision long and hard. We have had their claims and

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counterclaims for this story and other stories so there was a good

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process and discussion around it. And we do not do read sports stories

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that often. But in the end it came down to a number of reasons. It is a

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big football story. Chelsea are the Premier League champions. They have

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had a spectacular demise of the last six months. Unprecedented for a

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Premier League champions to potential relegation candidates.

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There is something within that. Also Jose Mourinho is one of the biggest

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figures in football, in world football. But also he is a football

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personality that transcends the sport. Lots of people and viewers

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know about Jose Mourinho. There is a lot of interest in him as an

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individual. That takes you to the next part of it. It is more than a

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football or a sports story in the sense that the Premier League,

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Premier League clubs, our global brands. This is the biggest football

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league in the world. This is one of the biggest sporting weeks and plans

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in the world. And these are global brands with a global interests, not

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just a UK interest in the story. There is interest around the world.

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We saw that in our audience teacher after the story emerged. We got a

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lot of hits on the individual websites. 4 million hits on that

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story. When the top person goes, the leader of the brand, almost the

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chief executive, the creative leader of that organisation, that is a

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story with is a lot of interest. What about The View of a football

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fan who says the prominence was due to the fact it was a London Premier

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League club and it just gets more attention. I heard that clip but

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this had been Manchester United Manchester City there would be

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similar assessment around that story as well. They are both huge football

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clubs, huge global brands, and have a resonance beyond simply football.

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Do you not think that the BBC is setting out a message of importance

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by the order that puts things in and actually even as the most important

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story and you could have made this second rest absolutely and that is

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why we do think and talk about this a lot. There are a number of things

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we take into consideration. You could read on the unit story every

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day between now and when the referendum happens. I am not sure

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that it be a perfect service for audiences either. These are

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decisions we make. We have a think. The user story rumbles on into next

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year. The Chelsea story was one which unexpectedly happened

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yesterday afternoon and was a very current story at six o'clock

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yesterday. Do let us know your thoughts on that

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or on any aspect of BBC News. Because of who to contact us at the

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end of the programme. One of the big stories this week was

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about Tim Peake, Britain's first official astronaut who went into

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space to work on the International Space Station. They will spend six

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months conducting scientific experiments and carrying out

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educational to encourage young people to do science. Quite an all

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inspiring moments. Some separation confirmed off the part of the rocket

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that will separate by stages as it makes its way towards orbits. But

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some of you were not all that happy with the BBC coverage overall. One

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viewer got in touch with us. I was interested in the Tim Peake story. I

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was not interested in the paedophiles and the old friends that

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added nothing to the story -- was not interested in the peripherals

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and the old friends that added nothing to the story. So much time

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discussing things that did not fit into what was happening. You can

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tell how proud they are by their size of the arrow on his school

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photo. Who knew then what this little boy would do? Certainly not

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his school best friends. It is the biggest thing that has happened

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since I was born. I am proud. The BBC issued this statement in

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response. And finally you may well be where

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there is a new science-fiction out the speech. I am talking about Star

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Wars, the force awakens. Several viewers said the BBC gave it to much

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coverage. It is premiered in the UK this

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evening and our man is in Leicester square. It has been very busy. Can I

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get you to turn around? You have come from? From Germany. Did you

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make this costume yourself? And you are very excited? I will leave you

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in peace. Thank you. A pleasure to meet you. If that does not mean

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anything to you these next three minutes will be even more

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mysterious. For anyone who doubted me earlier on the one o'clock news

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when I said I had met and Ewok here he is.

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Their blanket coverage of Star Wars, to show one item on either side of

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the premier would have been sufficient. There are more potent

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things going on in the world than simply another Star Wars film. I am

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interested in the trachea used by the BBC to select such items because

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they obviously have strict rules about product basement and yet this

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product has been advertised so extensively, the advertising has

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been worth millions. We asked the BBC about this and they issued this

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statement. That is all from us. Thank you for

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all your comments this week. If you want to share your opinions on BBC

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News and current affairs you can contact us.

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We will be back in the New Year on January eight to hear your thoughts

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about BBC News coverage. Until then have a happy Christmas and New

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