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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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thebillyotea · 11/04/2021 12:12

@Iamthewombat

When the other side start rolling out the insults (“...a bit stupid”) you know that you are winning.
always true Grin
thebillyotea · 11/04/2021 12:13

@Flaunch

Must be truly devastating to a person to not be able to watch the TV or listen to the radio for an entire day. I can’t imagine the trauma of it. Do you need counselling now?
congratulations on being lucky and never been bed ridden. Missing a bit on the empathy and understanding side though, are we.
FlattestWhite · 11/04/2021 12:14

@Flaunch

Threads like this really highlight how fucking sad some people’s lives are.

Don’t like what’s on the tv? DO SOMETHING ELSE.

But the thread wasn't about people not liking what was on the TV and not being able to do anything else. There's an objection to the principles behind the decision to restrict BBC output to only that/nothing, and the lack of access to other really important news. How does that make people's lives sad, because they want to find out about other things, or because they disagree with the values behind a particular decision? To me, that does really suggest a sad life but rather someone who might be interested in quite a lot of things.

Interested in this thread?

Then you might like threads about this subject:

The royal family
MarshaBradyo · 11/04/2021 12:14

@Flaunch

Must be truly devastating to a person to not be able to watch the TV or listen to the radio for an entire day. I can’t imagine the trauma of it. Do you need counselling now?
I can’t imagine being as angry as you are over this thread.

Are you generally this unhappy in life?

Flaunch · 11/04/2021 12:16

How do you know I haven’t? I actually spent the entirely of my last pregnancy “bed ridden” as you put it, I could have coped quite easily with a day without repeats of homes under the hammer.

My grandad used to tell me that only boring people got bored and I tell my kids the same thing all the time, because it is true.

Iamthewombat · 11/04/2021 12:16

Don’t like what’s on the tv? DO SOMETHING ELSE.

See?

Must be truly devastating to a person to not be able to watch the TV or listen to the radio for an entire day

See?

FlattestWhite · 11/04/2021 12:17

@ineedaholidaynow

And it was only for about 12 hours the simultaneous broadcast. Most coverage is reasonably back to normal now isn’t it with just some special programmes on.

News website only has one article at the moment on it.

The app is still very dominated by it, though, although coverage of other stories is increasing. The main top-stories page still has Prince Philip as the top 7 or so stories, and you really have to search to find anything about the northern Ireland riots, for example. Even if you go to the specific Northern Ireland page in the app, Prince Philip is still the top two stories (and earlier today was almost all of them)
MarshaBradyo · 11/04/2021 12:17

@Flaunch

How do you know I haven’t? I actually spent the entirely of my last pregnancy “bed ridden” as you put it, I could have coped quite easily with a day without repeats of homes under the hammer.

My grandad used to tell me that only boring people got bored and I tell my kids the same thing all the time, because it is true.

Are you also teaching them to insult people on the internet?

Always a good pastime if you’re bored.

Longdistance · 11/04/2021 12:17

I think it was too much. I love the royal family, but they should’ve put something on BBC2. After all, we do pay for a tv licence. If you’re paying for something it shouldn’t repeat itself on another of their channels. If your Sky/cable did the same we’d be up in arms about it. It was tedious. It should’ve been just on BBC1.

FlattestWhite · 11/04/2021 12:19

@Flaunch

How do you know I haven’t? I actually spent the entirely of my last pregnancy “bed ridden” as you put it, I could have coped quite easily with a day without repeats of homes under the hammer.

My grandad used to tell me that only boring people got bored and I tell my kids the same thing all the time, because it is true.

But why do you keep saying that people aren't coping, or are bored, when there have been a lot of explanation about how that is not what they were complaining about? You seem very angry about something that isn't actually happening.
MarshaBradyo · 11/04/2021 12:20

When people don’t come on with near apoplectic levels of rage about people not knitting or doing jigsaws the role of the BBC and royal family and state is actually well worth discussing, if you can think for a minute.

ineedaholidaynow · 11/04/2021 12:23

I wonder if it was just easier for BBC to go blanket coverage, rather than go through the scheduling and removing anything that might be deemed ‘disrespectful’ in some eyes in those first few hours. Because there would have been complaints if they had shown some programmes.

trappedsincesundaymorn · 11/04/2021 12:24

Of course, but this is a particular lesson - and an especially interesting one

In what way? What makes his death a "particular lesson" or "interesting"? He was a 99 year old man who died, nothing new or interesting there.

Peregrina · 11/04/2021 12:24

Then you have what to me seems like mawkish drivel

Yes, he was the Queen's Consort, yes he's been around a long time, yes, he supported her, but for heaven's sake, he was an old man who probably knew himself that his time had come.

As for those who say that it's history - most of the pomp and ceremony isn't history but was invented in the early 20th century.

ineedaholidaynow · 11/04/2021 12:26

I think quite a few people have learnt a lot about him in the last few days and what organisations etc he was heavily involved in. His family tree is a history lesson in itself

thebillyotea · 11/04/2021 12:34

@Flaunch

How do you know I haven’t? I actually spent the entirely of my last pregnancy “bed ridden” as you put it, I could have coped quite easily with a day without repeats of homes under the hammer.

My grandad used to tell me that only boring people got bored and I tell my kids the same thing all the time, because it is true.

I find it amazing that you are still trying to make it all about YOU, and missing the point spectacularly.

How can anyone have such a narrow and self-centred vision and not understand people complaints... No one is asking you to agree about the complaints, but missing the point so much is astonishing.

Canigooutyet · 11/04/2021 12:35

Those saying just read a book.
Do you realise that some people are visually impaired, Not all adults can actually read? Not all homes have books and it's not like they could have gone to the library and borrowed books. Not everyone enjoys or has access to audio books.

The death of one man talk g over several channels from the same media outlet was a really bad call and the public vote with their remotes, 60% drop in ratings and a specific complaints route emphasises its not what license payers wanted.

Although never understood why they stopped their ads as well considering it being ad free is often spouted out as a reason why it's wonderful.

RubyFowler · 11/04/2021 12:36

@Flaunch

Must be truly devastating to a person to not be able to watch the TV or listen to the radio for an entire day. I can’t imagine the trauma of it. Do you need counselling now?
That's not what's upset people. Have you read the other arguments on the thread?
Blah1881 · 11/04/2021 12:37

The phony forelock tugging that DJs across all stations were forced into made me squirm with embarrassment. Radio stations that clearly do not cater to a royalist demographic were forced to tow a party line and it was humiliating to listen to. I did just turn off and work in silence, it was just so creepy.

Canigooutyet · 11/04/2021 12:39

On and even if the BBC went you would still have the BBC world service as this is funded differently.

Peregrina · 11/04/2021 12:42

As far as I can see, no one has said that it shouldn't have been on the BBC at all. Of course it was important news, but other news in the world is equally important, and that got pushed out.

ineedaholidaynow · 11/04/2021 12:47

I assume the BBC were also looking at it from the Queen’s point of view. Her life has been tradition and duty all the way. The BBC is governed by a Royal Charter.

I am sure things will change after the Queen dies. Interestingly the Duke was very much in favour of modernising the Royal Family

FunnyWonder · 11/04/2021 13:02

I see there are plenty of condescending posts on here about the nature of afternoon TV just so posters can flag up their supposed cultural superiority. Sneering comments about programmes, inferring a lack of intellectual credentials.

There is no need for this wall to wall coverage on every channel. We aren't all in mourning. We don't all have subscriptions to Netflix. My mum, for example, has Alzheimer's and relies on the TV programmes matching what is written in her TV Times. If there's a change of broadcast, she switches over to something else that she can see printed in the magazine. It was a very, very long afternoon for me having to endlessly repeat that no, she didn't have the wrong magazine, yes it was Friday, that Prince Philip (yes, the Queen's husband) had died and sorry but, yes, you will have to watch it all day long, but maybe things will be back to normal this evening. Of course they wouldn't, but I had to keep my sanity.

Clearly I don't expect programming to be scheduled to suit my mum, but seriously, is there any need to belittle people who rely on daytime TV as a source of comfort or entertainment, whatever their circumstances?

Roussette · 11/04/2021 13:05

FunnyWonder oh bless your Mum, I can imagine it was really confusing for her.
Same with a 90 year old I ring every week, although she hasn't got Alzheimers, she is a real creature of routine and would have been really confused by it all, and would not understand why, when she managed to switch over, it was the same programme on there too.

SionnachRua · 11/04/2021 13:06

@Blah1881

The phony forelock tugging that DJs across all stations were forced into made me squirm with embarrassment. Radio stations that clearly do not cater to a royalist demographic were forced to tow a party line and it was humiliating to listen to. I did just turn off and work in silence, it was just so creepy.
Reminds me of the attempt to force people into wearing the poppy and the abuse that people like James McClean get when they don't toe the line. I can't imagine that either the Duke or the fallen war dead would appreciate that being done in their names.