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BBC gets complaints over too much Prince Philip coverage

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By JILL LAWLESS

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Turn off the tv. Simple.

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He was a true gentleman and a service to my country. Loyal and modest. The coverage seemed appropriate.

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“Some Britons saw the BBC’s actions as ‘a fitting mark of respect’. For others, ‘it was a bit much’.” -
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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.

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The coverage was appropriate. You can’t please everyone, and changing the channel is an option if you don’t like it.

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.

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Turn off the tv. Simple.

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.

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I think it’s more concerning that parliament has been shut down for over a week. Nice work if you can get it.

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Was this separate measure necessary?

“The broadcaster set up a special website page for viewers to register objections if they felt there was “too much TV coverage of the death of HRH Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh.” -

The BBC is taxpayer-funded.” - Therefore, a responsibility to ALL people. Deal with it, don’t segregate it.
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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"!

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