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© Copyright 2021 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.BBC gets complaints over too much Prince Philip coverage
By JILL LAWLESS LONDON©2024 GPlusMedia Inc.
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snowymountainhell
Starbucks
Turn off the tv. Simple.
Luddite
It was too much, several channels broadcasting the same thing over and over for more than 24 hours. BBC4 didn’t broadcast at all. I was right about Gogglebox on C4, most watched programme on Friday.
Bob Fosse
I think it’s more concerning that parliament has been shut down for over a week. Nice work if you can get it.
snowymountainhell
Was this separate measure necessary?
“The BBC is taxpayer-funded.” - Therefore, a responsibility to ALL people. Deal with it, don’t segregate it.u_s__reamer
As always, the MSM's long rehearsed and carefully choreographed "Overboard" and "Overkill" for a royal demise, but in the midst of a major pandemic the weary public has little appetite for wall-to-wall coverage of privileged folks' troubles and the deficit of deference is palpable as it rapidly goes the way of the "tug of the forelock". Just switch it off and "get a life"!
Jimizo
Fair point.
Then again, the BBC is paid for by the public. It is a public service. What amounts to a cancellation of its usual service was over the top.
I think there was a balance that could have been struck here. I don’t think fair-minded people would have objected to reasonable, rather than wall-to-wall coverage.
The death of an elderly royal doesn’t require wall-to-wall coverage. It’s not an election or a developing crisis.
CoffeeDeluxe
He was a true gentleman and a service to my country. Loyal and modest. The coverage seemed appropriate.
Luddite
No, it was too much. On Friday nine channels were showing the same programming. Other channels had regular tribute programmes and some channels, like BBC4 and CBBC didn’t broadcast at all. We are still in lockdown, most are stuck at home for the majority of the day and it was intolerable for many. Radio stations also changed their content, either switching to rolling coverage or playing sombre/downbeat music.