Pale Rider
Legendary Member
What's going on is the lead story for the UK is the same story for the four nations, which often happens.
Or put another way, nothing is going on.
Media coverage of Prince Phillips passing.
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What's going on is the lead story for the UK is the same story for the four nations, which often happens.
Or put another way, nothing is going on.
glasgowcyclist
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Except it’s not.
matticus
Guru
Yes - that's why I remarked on the Scots going the extra mile. Just in case I wasn't clear ;-)
Moon bunny
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I was so busy helping Mr. Bunny with his new bike I forgot to completely ignore Phil’s funeral.
matticus
Guru
Caught a snippet of the repeat on BBC.
I'm glad they got nice weather for it. A lot of soldiers could have been stood outside in the rain.
Nice song choices 👍
I'm glad they got nice weather for it. A lot of soldiers could have been stood outside in the rain.
Nice song choices 👍
Pale Rider
Legendary Member
It was for the BBC, although of course everyone is an editor and everyone knows how to the job better than those paid to do it.
Worth bearing in mind Phil was Duke of Edinburgh.
I watched the procession.
They were knee deep in Rolls Royces and Bentleys, and all our servicemen in their dress uniforms made an impressive sight.
Harry and William walked apart, separated, I think, by one of the Kraut noblemen.
Presumably it was thought he could pull on sufficiently if the pair of them started scrapping.
Joey Shabadoo
My pronouns are "He", "Him" and "buggerlugs"
No words needed
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Salty seadog
Space Cadet...(3rd Class...)
Well I got my response from the Been as I'm sure some of you also have.
Hey @Pale Rider, even the BBC think the purpose of the form was to register a complaint. But then you already know that.
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Hey @Pale Rider, even the BBC think the purpose of the form was to register a complaint. But then you already know that.
Drago
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The problem wasn't "the level of coverage", as the BBC state. If it had been actual coverage it wouldn't have been so bad.
The problem was a prominent person passed away, and othet than the fact of his passing there was actuslly nothing happening, so we got days of talking heads spouting utter bollards.
Imagine a wildlife documentary, 20 seconds of a lion eating a polar bear, then 59 minutes of David Attenbourough making stuff up to filling the in empty rest of the programme.
Or Eastenders, Phill slaps Ian Beale, and then were get 29 minutes of Phil taking about the cardigans Beale has worn over the decades. The Beeb wouldn't do it with any other type of programming, so why do they insist of doing it with the news?
The newsflashes, fine.
The normal reporting during news programmes, fine.
Minor cancellations for a 1 or 2 hour special, but one in which they tell us something substantive instead of just treading water waiting for something to happen, fine.
Mass cancellations of programming across multiple stations and platforms to give us a single line headline, "The Duke of Edinburgh has died", and then hours and hours of people ad libbng utyer rubbish, not fine.
Yet again the Beeb just don't see it, and yet again thats another small nail in the coffin of the licence fee.
The problem was a prominent person passed away, and othet than the fact of his passing there was actuslly nothing happening, so we got days of talking heads spouting utter bollards.
Imagine a wildlife documentary, 20 seconds of a lion eating a polar bear, then 59 minutes of David Attenbourough making stuff up to filling the in empty rest of the programme.
Or Eastenders, Phill slaps Ian Beale, and then were get 29 minutes of Phil taking about the cardigans Beale has worn over the decades. The Beeb wouldn't do it with any other type of programming, so why do they insist of doing it with the news?
The newsflashes, fine.
The normal reporting during news programmes, fine.
Minor cancellations for a 1 or 2 hour special, but one in which they tell us something substantive instead of just treading water waiting for something to happen, fine.
Mass cancellations of programming across multiple stations and platforms to give us a single line headline, "The Duke of Edinburgh has died", and then hours and hours of people ad libbng utyer rubbish, not fine.
Yet again the Beeb just don't see it, and yet again thats another small nail in the coffin of the licence fee.
Yebbut if we get rid of the BBC we'll lose such high quality journalism as "number 10 sources say..." as well as the revelation that Hugh Grant visited a bakery in Frome earlier!!111 And that other high profile people to visit Somerset are ...
It's honestly embarrassing, they're being driven into the ground and are apparently powerless to stop it
Drago
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The British Broadcasting Communists are doing it to themselves and I for one won't shed a tear when the licence fee goes.
Pale Rider
Legendary Member
A lot of the sofa guests I saw had some interesting anecdotes to tell of the time they met Phil.
Also worth bearing in mind that while 110,000+ people complained, many millions didn't.
Tribansman
Veteran
Rather than obsequious anecdotes, I prefer the Morning Star's reality check on the Duke's 'nature loving' credentials...
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/f/environmental-hypocrisy-on-a-right-royal-scale
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/f/environmental-hypocrisy-on-a-right-royal-scale
