I'd forgotten about his comments after the Dunblane murders. He really was an odious man.
Media coverage of Prince Phillips passing.
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matticus
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They were watching Netflix.
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Not quite true, the website was pulled in less then 24 hours as it was swamped, thats 110,000 complaints in just a few hours, if it hadn't been pulled it would have been millions of complaints
Pale Rider
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Among the 'obsequious anecdotes' was a clip of Phil fronting a BBC documentary in 1957 in which he spoke of the problem of 'melting glaciers'.
Then there was his role in the founding of the Worldwide Wildlife Fund in the early 60s.
Still, I'm pleased to see the commies at the Morning Star are still in there jabbing.
They weren't, millions were still watching BBC 1 and ITV, albeit in reduced numbers.
Pale Rider
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Not so.
The BBC received 'many' complaints, and in response to those put up the short lived web form to register a complaint and to register to get the BBC's response.
Your assertion that 'if it hadn't been pulled it would have been millions of complaints' is simply incorrect.
The BBC's regular complaints channels have been open throughout, thus no one has been denied the opportunity of complaining.
So am I. Good to have an antidote to the compulsory forelock-tugging and round-the-clock boot-licking.
matticus
Guru
Yup, millions watched the funeral (13mill I think I heard? If so, that's more than Line of Duty! ). The royal-haters should really take that on board, as no-one was made to watch it.
The problem was the 2-3 days following Phil's death. Did 13 million watch any of the news programs when he was 2 days dead? Did cancelling the BBC2 schedule help anyone through their grief?
In general I think your direct numeric comparison is flawed anyway; the BBC could show the most appaling things - live executions, child porn, you name it - and they would get 500 viewers for every person that bothered to complain.
Mugshot
Cracking a solo.
So around 53 million or so didn't?
matticus
Guru
<yawn>
Mugshot
Cracking a solo.
I know right, chucking numbers around to try to manufacture some kind of mic drop moment is particularly tedious.
matticus
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Such wise commentary, such deep analysis. Deserves a wider audience.
Mugshot
Cracking a solo.
Like Nicholas Witchell
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Pale Rider
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The Queen would give you an argument, but what does she know?
We've gone from reds under the beds to commies on the computer, but the patter is still the same old cobblers.
Aye, so do I.
She wouldn't, tho, would she, about that or anything else, because she's entirely unaccountable to her subjects.
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