Duke of Edinburgh dies

[SLUDGE FACTORY]

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Tell us what you realy think!

I held back to be honest

[lardy]

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You think that's all??? you're way out.

I was driving a Merc Sprinter when the original news was broadcast. The BBC controls all the radio traffic in the UK and commercial stations pay to use it. Every single channel on the vehicle radio was locked. I could not even change the channel at all. It just wouldn't work.
And the band information was showing DAB FM and AM all at once, it was being broadcast simultaneously on all of them.

It's quite scary when you realise that the government of the day could do that and broadcast information they want to drown you with at any moment they wanted, and you can't turn it off. 1984 is closer than we know.
The channels were freed up sometime between 3 and 4 O'Clock.

Is it the BBC doing it or the government? I lost track.

[Des Parrot]

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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!

[B. Oddie]

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I never knew there were so many Karens on this board.

[Gofer Blue]

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I share with you nearly all them emotional sentiments, then I remember we’re paying for the parasitical fuuckers nd loathe public money being wasted on lazy bastards.

I’m supposing I’m a Tory really hiding under a left wing facade?

Just be grateful that you were not born into that family I would say.

[xsnaggle]

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Is it the BBC doing it or the government? I lost track.

/when it is considered necessary the two are the same thing.

[dml1954]

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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.

[SLUDGE FACTORY]

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we got more of it today ?

Ff sake

Its not like he has performed open heart surgery on people

[Cleve van Leef]

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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.

[Stanmore Bluebird]

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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.

[the other bob wilson]

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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/complaints/make-a-complaint/#/review

[The Lone Gunman]

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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

[MOZZER2]

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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

done

[jeepster]

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done

Me too

[Taunton Blue Genie]

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done

Done