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The BBC have been overwhelmed with complaints about coverage of Prince Philip

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ArseInTheCoOpWindow · 10/04/2021 12:29

Showing the same thing on 2 channels simultaneously.

Now you just enter your email to complain as they couldn’t cope with the amount of complaints.

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ejhhhhh · 10/04/2021 20:21

The coverage has been completely disproportionate to what has actually happened, and I find it quite distasteful actually, given the 12 months we've had. I have lost someone close to me this year to Covid, probably decades before their time and I couldn't even attend the funeral. I therefore don't appreciate being told that I must spend days grieving for a privileged 99 year old that I have never met. Maybe if there had been some sort of national mourning for all those who've died prematurely this year I wouldn't feel quite so bitter about it, but tbh there's been sod all in comparison to this, which only reinforces the idea that we're disposable plebs who should defer to our masters on high whenever instructed. You may say we can just choose to watch something else, which of course is correct, but they had a banner on the children's channels, telling them to stick the news on FFS.

PicsInRed · 10/04/2021 20:40

I think the timing and implementation of this 8 days of official mourning, juxtaposed against the 2 minute silence and a speech we just recently had for well over 100,000 dead commoners, not to mention the countless permanently disabled and/or financially ruined and as yet unquantified mental health damage undoubtedly on a grand scale after a year of absolute grimness, and counting...it's not great optics, is it.

Peregrina · 10/04/2021 20:46

ejhhhhh I think you are right there. Too many of us have lost loved ones and friends and because of Covid restrictions haven't been able to mourn them properly.

The BBC might have over-reacted because they didn't get the Queen Mother's passing right - not enough coverage apparently. But that wasn't at a time where people have had their lives severely restricted for over year now, haven't been able to see family members for months or comfort the sick and go to funerals, so it puts a different complexion on it.

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jessstan2 · 10/04/2021 20:52

@MarshaBradyo

Jesstan it’s nice that you didn’t mean to be but don’t you think ‘get a life’ is a bit uncalled for?

I have sympathy with anyone who works and relies on radio. I do too.

Maybe it was in which case I apologise.

I don't understand why people cannot put up with a little inconvenience for a short space of time is all. To me that is life, things happen all the time that disrupt the normal flow. They are soon over. It isn't worth being livid or fuming.

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ArseInTheCoOpWindow · 10/04/2021 20:53

It took me all of 1 minute to complain. So not too much time on my hands.

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Quaagars · 10/04/2021 20:56

The BBC might have over-reacted because they didn't get the Queen Mother's passing right - not enough coverage apparently

I don't remember there being complaints over not enough coverage?
The Queen Mother was all over the news too.
If there was, well just goes to show can never bloody win - there's always people going to be moaning whatever lol!
It's a senior Royal passing, whatever you think of the Royal Family, what the fuck do you expect with coverage Confused

UrAWizHarry · 10/04/2021 20:56

@Sadsiblingatsea

People who complain obviously have far too much time on their hands. I doubt it was that many - some sort of BBC agenda no doubt.
Took me 10 seconds.

Less, in fact, than the time you wasted on your post....

Peregrina · 10/04/2021 21:00

The Queen Mother was all over the news too.

The big hoo ha then was that the newsreader Peter Sissons didn't wear a black tie when he made the announcement. He was perfectly respectably dressed. Increasingly now, people don't insist that mourners wear black for funerals, preferring to see a funeral as a celebration of the person's life.

abeanbaked · 10/04/2021 21:16

Why can't people just accept that we have a monarchy and it's a big deal if any of them die? I don't have many feelings towards it but this was inevitable and I'm not going to complain about it. BBC is generally pretty shit anyway, I don't watch it but I think they show river city and eastenders? God.

People that really feel so strongly and are getting wound up, why? Do you think the BBC will take all of the complaints into account and apologise? Confused

He looked done for ages - he'll be happy to be getting a rest I can imagine.

KingscoteStaff · 10/04/2021 21:20

The far right pressure group Defund the BBC say that the easiness of the complaint process is a clear sign of the BBC's leftieness.

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ArseInTheCoOpWindow · 10/04/2021 21:24

People that really feel so strongly and are getting wound up, why? Do you think the BBC will take all of the complaints into account and apologise?

They will be issuing a statement. They lost 60% of their viewers, maybe they need to take the complaints into account?

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KeflavikAirport · 10/04/2021 21:52

If you’d watched some of the coverage yesterday, you’d realise he did a hell of a lot more than that

Yes he went round the world making diplomatic gaffes and insulting people too, don’t forget.

I’d like to see how much real input he had into the D of E awards other than giving it his name and turning up to a shindig once in a while.

Pedallleur · 10/04/2021 21:56

It's the BBC. Royal Family and BBC are intertwined.

RedcurrantPuff · 10/04/2021 21:56

The QM funeral footage you could avoid quite easily as there were plenty of other places to go or things to go. Pub, shopping, gym etc.

monkehsee · 10/04/2021 22:01

@Fyredraca

Is it actually their choice or are they following a protocol?
I believe it is part of operation forth bridge.
mermaidsariel · 10/04/2021 22:07

Can someone shed some light on why the footage of theQueen’s children talking about their father in the past tense and wearing black was filmed whilst he was still alive? Very macabre.

User135644 · 10/04/2021 22:09

@Pedallleur

It's the BBC. Royal Family and BBC are intertwined.
They're supposed to be neutral.
DianaT1969 · 10/04/2021 22:10

The BBC can't read the room. A pandemic, long lockdowns. The monarchy and celebrities have never been less relevant.
A 99 year old man died. Sad for his family. That's it.
It's as if they've paid for hours of documentaries and because the archives are full of free footage, they'll darn well play it on every channel every hour until after the funeral.

Bluegrass · 10/04/2021 22:17

@User135644 - what does neutral mean to you? This country is a constitutional monarchy, are they supposed to be neutral as to how the country currently functions?

Should they be neutral on the topic of democracy as well, just to be sure that fascism and communism get equal billing?

Should they be neutral on the Earth being flat or round?

I really think people need to properly examine what this concept of neutrality really means in practice.

RubyFowler · 10/04/2021 22:17

@jessstan2

I don't understand why people cannot put up with a little inconvenience for a short space of time is all.

I think the point is not the inconvenience, more what is it saying to us when the BBC is supposed to be for us, if we don't have any choice across their channels and formats but to hear/view hours of programmes about one subject.
Its saying to us, that we must care about this, that it should be of utmost importance to us. That we should be in mourning, that we should be marking the passing of a particularly special person.

Well to me, it is nothing more than any other leading news story. No more important, no less. I don't even mind the royals really. But I don't think he was really that remarkable, no more than many other 99 year old, and I'm not in mourning.
The heavy handed response felt to me, as other posters have said, like being told what to think and how to feel.

jessstan2 · 10/04/2021 22:19

@DianaT1969

The BBC can't read the room. A pandemic, long lockdowns. The monarchy and celebrities have never been less relevant. A 99 year old man died. Sad for his family. That's it. It's as if they've paid for hours of documentaries and because the archives are full of free footage, they'll darn well play it on every channel every hour until after the funeral.
Except that it hasn't been, nor is, on every channel.
Quaagars · 10/04/2021 22:24

The BBC can't read the room. A pandemic, long lockdowns. The monarchy and celebrities have never been less relevant.
A 99 year old man died. Sad for his family. That's it

What has the pandemic and lockdowns got to do with anything?
Yes, they're shit, but what has that got to do with Prince Philip dying?
Surely you know when a senior Royal dies, it is big news, whether you agree with that or not?
Hardly the case of "a 99 year old man just died" Hmm

KingscoteStaff · 10/04/2021 22:33

The BBC is our national broadcaster. Their coverage is entirely appropriate.

KatherineJaneway · 10/04/2021 22:33

The poster was listening to music.

No, she was listening to a BBC radio station. Big difference.

We are being told how to feel.

No you are not. If you don't care he has died, disengage and do something else.

User135644 · 10/04/2021 22:34

@bluegrass even they're impartial or they aren't.