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Looks like I missed all this. Good to come on CCMB for my news bulletins.
Shame he missed out on the telegram from his wife.
Anything else happen? Poland extended lockdown by another week!
I never knew there were so many Karens on this board. :hehe:
Whilst Prince Philips death is sad, particularly for his family, it was obviously not unexpected at his age and with his recent health problems. By all means we should pay our respects and his public life and service should be duly commemorated in some way BUT the main TV channels and media outlets have just lost all sense of proportion on this. Last night we were treated to the three main channels giving wall to wall coverage of his death and totally changing all their schedules to do so. This included BBC One and BBC Two running exactly the same commemorative programme at exactly the same time on both channels - really ? Today we have BBC One moving most of their programmes onto BBC Two and running a FOUR HOUR special on his death !! ITV is doing something very similar but only lasting an hour. Both BBC and ITV have miraculously found about ten Royal Correspondents each from somewhere and they have been busy wheeling unknown people on screen who knew him or have met him (some of them only for about ten minutes by the sound of it) and getting them to wax lyrical about what a wonderful man Philip was. This is all just totally out of proportion and ridiculous. All the news presenters are also fawning over Philip for no good reason. BBC are receiving lots of complains about their coverage - I urge everyone to go online to their complaints site and register protest about the coverage.
we got more of it today ?
Ff sake
Its not like he has performed open heart surgery on people
Last night we were treated to the three main channels giving wall to wall coverage of his death and totally changing all their schedules to do so. This included BBC One and BBC Two running exactly the same commemorative programme at exactly the same time on both channels
They did this from early afternoon.
All these tv and radio programmes about Prince Phillip must have been prepared/recorded/filmed way in advance of his actual demise. All the various news outlets had their stories ready for the sad event.
If this has been posted earlier, then apologies.
If any one wants to complain about the BBCs coverage of Prince Philip’s death yesterday, they can do it through this link;-
https://www.bbc.co.uk/contact/compla...laint/#/review
Good to see today's edition of the Racing Post treating the news with the necessary level of reverence. A banner across the bottom of the front page reads:
Death of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, at the age of 99 - see page 24
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I agree that the coverage is way over the top and feels at odds with a modern day Britain but it's pretty easy to avoid it in this day and age. I haven't seen a single news report or read a single article, there's plenty of other *wanky word alert* content out there these days.
God help us when the Queen goes though, they'll probably have someone come round the house and shout at us until we cry about it