Why are Sky newsreaders ALREADY wearing poppies?

[CatAndMice]

Not because they want to or because it means something to them...

But obviously because they’ve been told to.

This makes them meaningless.

But in your OP you have implied "All Sky News readers" and that they have all been forced and it is fact.

So your actual question is:

I wonder if some of the newsreaders on sky didn't want to wear a poppy but have been forced to by their broadcasting company?

Answer: Who knows? Maybe? Why don't you ask them?

FML...🤦

You have extrapolated far more meaning from my OP than you can from the few sentences there. You are implying a greater depth of meaning than is meant. This is not an academic essay, this is an online chat room. This is a place for online conversation and musings. You seem to have trouble understanding the different uses for online platforms.

Not really though have I Cat

Title = " Why are Sky newsreaders ALREADY wearing poppies?

The above implies all the newsreaders.

Main body of OP:

" Not because they want to or because it means anything to them....

But obviously because they've been told to

This makes them meaningless.

At no point did I have to extrapolate any hidden message. You have implied newsreaders as a collective, you have used pronouns that implies them all multiple times.

But it's ok, I'll let you begin the back peddling.

Title = " Why are Sky newsreaders ALREADY wearing poppies?

The above implies all the newsreaders.

Yes, they are all wearing them.

Not because they want to or because it means anything to them....

But obviously because they've been told to

Ok, I could have added an 'all' before 'want' and 'all of' before 'them'.

But as I said, I’m not writing an academic paper, which is to be drafted, checked and redrafted under the knowledge that it will be scrutinised. I am posing a question on a forum.

My OP still stands, with the additions if you wish.

I will arrive at work in the next 15 minutes. Please don’t then accuse me of disappearing from the thread...

But by being pedantic about grammar, you are deliberately ignoring and avoiding the subject. I wonder why.

I woke up this morning to my village being poppyfied, its lovely and happens every year.

But by being pedantic about grammar, you are deliberately ignoring and avoiding the subject. I wonder why.

What’s the subject though?

People have explained why some people are wearing poppies today.

You then go on, in your OP, to make 2 statements which you don’t know to be true (hence my suggestion of contacting Sky for clarity).

What subject is being avoided?

You may not be writing an academic paper, but perhaps you should take note about how those "pedantic" points completely change your argument/question posed?

You would also be sensible to perhaps stop shouting about "facts" and then not having any evidence to back up your "facts" stating your too busy to trawl the internet.

I've told you and addressed your original point in my previous posts, however to recap.

It's the official start of Poppy the appeal today that may be why they have appeared.

And in response to if some have been forced. I don't know, I'm not them , you would have to ask them if the wearing of a poppy was compulsory for Sky Newsreaders as a whole. Perhaps you could tweet them?

People in London are already wearing them...

OP was ignorant of the fact that today is the launch if the campaign and that it is therefore utterly correct to wear one.

She has now been out straight in that.

She doesn't seem to grasp that many peoole (including those on the telly) are totally happy to wear one.

SKY has been running a good an informative piece on Sergeant Talaiasi Labalaba, which makes the poppies particularly apposite.

As OP noted it's largely a British/Comminwealth tradition, and sKY's Washington correspondent is nit wearing a poppy.

It's utterly normal for news channels to have dress codes to fit their editorial choices on appropriateness. Not just poppies, also black for mourning.

As RBL says, wear one or don't, and let others make the choices they want. But spare a though for how freedom of expression was won and defended over the last 100 years.

Since many people have already started preparing for an event on 25th December, I see nothing wrong in preparing for an event on 11th November.

I don't think everyone knows that November 11th isn't the global day of remembrance, just the British one.

Other countries have different days and also different emblems of remeberence. France uses the blue cornflower and not the red poppy for example.

So the reason foreign correspondents don't have one on, is there are none available where they are, I'm sure someone could post them one but would it really be worth it?

How exactly do you know they’ve been told to?

Why does it matter if it’s early :s

Well exactly, dipping

Op doesn't know.... it's an assumption

I'm sure someone could post them one but would it really be worth it?

Well, according to the OP...

But they’re not capable of declining, are they? Not without being hauled over the coals

If that really is the case, you’d assume posting a poppy out would be the least someone could do...

I always buy a poppy and it usually falls off after about 10 mins.

Are you Emily Dawes or one of her followers OP?

Personally I only put my poppy tree up on Armistice day Eve, whilst baking some Anzac biscuits for the Carollers.

I started wearing my poppy pin badge today. Usually the fortnight before Remembrance Day is when I will start. It's very meaningful indeed to me.

I am going to be in Ypres on November 11th, and in other places nearby for the few days before.

I have some sympathy for the views expressed by the OP about poppies being worn for nearly three weeks, even though in the Christian calendar November is a month for remembering the dead (all souls day on November 2nd, for example). It seems to be too similar to all the attempts there are to extend other 'days' into longer periods of time (think Mothers' Day Weekend, for example).

They've been on sale where I work since the first week in October, so I don't see a problem with someone wearing one if they're readily available.

The earlier than usual start is a one-off because it's the centenary and there will be a lot going on (eg the remembrance and rehabilitation aspects of the Sussex tour getting much coverage today).

If foreign correspondents of British news organisations want/need poppies, they don't need to have one sent out. The Legion supply them abroad via Embassies, High Commisions, consulates, military missions and probably other UK official delegations. I'm not sure if they include Scottish ones though.