Media coverage of Prince Phillips passing.

[Bonefish Blues]

I've been musing on this and I reckon it's simply that the BBC hasn't kept pace (when has it ever?).

To explain, apparently we're in a week's National Mourning at the moment. When the BBC was ubiquitous, I think that it, and the press, were the tone-setters (Heaven knows we're miserable now and all that). Simply, the BBC is now just one of many channels, so that's why, when it tries to do the thing that it does, and has been doing for decades, it's ended up looking marooned and out of touch - because it really is.

 

[winjim]

I've been musing on this and I reckon it's simply that the BBC hasn't kept pace (when has it ever?).

To explain, apparently we're in a week's National Mourning at the moment. When the BBC was ubiquitous, I think that it, and the press, were the tone-setters (Heaven knows we're miserable now and all that). Simply, the BBC is now just one of many channels, so that's why, when it tries to do the thing that it does, and has been doing for decades, it's ended up looking marooned and out of touch - because it really is.

So Radio 6 carries on with its usual programming, inadvertently plays the Sex Pistols or similar, the right wing press gets up in arms and the station ceases to exist?

 

[Fab Foodie]

So Radio 6 carries on with its usual programming, inadvertently plays the Sex Pistols or similar, the right wing press gets up in arms and the station ceases to exist?

In a nutshell....

 

[winjim]

In a nutshell....

Also given the sheer frequency of Prince Philip racism jokes in even ostensibly unrelated comedy shows, it's maybe best to avoid those for a while.

 

[Bonefish Blues]

So Radio 6 carries on with its usual programming, inadvertently plays the Sex Pistols or similar, the right wing press gets up in arms and the station ceases to exist?

6 Music has completed totally new programming at short notice - Radcliffe alluded to it this morning. It would have been easier to review the already-programmed material, but what's required is a completely different tone, not just risk-avoidance, it appears. Chris Hawkins was replaced with, amongst other things, 5 Live Science Programme this morning.

As I said, it's that the BBC is marooned amongst a sea of normality as others carry on.

 

[Julia9054]

I don't think it's coverage as such. It's more guarding against accidentally playing something horrendously disrespectful, which would be all too easy on a channel like R6. It seems we're getting a little more upbeat this morning anyway.

I listen to radio 3. Fortunately, schedule appears to be back to normal today - unlike yesterday. It's hard to imagine what disrespectful piece of music radio 3 could accidentally play!

 

[Salty seadog]

Shut all mouths. Give them no chance..

 

[Salty seadog]

So Radio 6 carries on with its usual programming, inadvertently plays the Sex Pistols or similar, the right wing press gets up in arms and the station ceases to exist?

As we should know, it shouldn't be a problem.

Is a narrative being controlled?

 

[Archie_tect]

Diverts people from talking about Harry and Andrew.

 

[stephec]

Planet Rock played, for them, more subdued music until 19.00 then got back to their usual Rock.

I listened to one of the classic rock stations yesterday afternoon, and right after the news the played Highway to Hell. 😂

 

[stephec]

Did Prince Philip shoot arrows ?

More interested in throwing spears from what I've read.

 

[Pale Rider]

I listened to one of the classic rock stations yesterday afternoon, and right after the news the played Highway to Hell. 😂

Edgy.

 

[theclaud]

I was expecting the coverage to be a lot of things I haven’t personally got much time for: royalist (obviously), obsequious (literally), nationalistic (inevitably). But I’ll admit I was not expecting it to be quite so…patriarchal.

New blog post by the ever-insightful Prof. Cameron.

 

[matticus]

I listened to one of the classic rock stations yesterday afternoon, and right after the news the played Highway to Hell. 😂

They play it every 2 hours, so probably just a coincidence.

 

[mudsticks]

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