To think there’s no need for ‘major news report’ message

[Greyrootszerohoots]

Getting ready for bed the CBeebies way and ‘Major news report on BBC1’ message keeps being flashed up. Anxiety inducing thoughts of you know, something major that didn’t happen earlier in the day and didn’t involve just one person dying.

I get that it’s big news and people care more than I do, but AIBU to think there’s no need to keep posting this on a kids tv channel?

You sound nice!

Nice is overrated. And Prince Philip would have appreciated the straight talking.

Sorry, Peppa Pig.

I remember when Princess Diana died being throughly hacked off at the expectation that we should all be really really sad. I was more concerned for a friend who's Grandad had died. It is more important to be concerned about those we know than public displays of grief for those we don't.

@mynameiscalypso me too. Can’t stand that whiny little shit!

We'll have another 7 or 8 days of this...so eyes down everyone and get with the programme...

I was at a train station commuting home earlier and there were regular announcements of his death! It wasn’t even a member of staff station making live announcements, it was a prerecorded automated “breaking news” message that played every 10-15 minutes. Felt a bit much.

@AfternoonToffee exactly. We (most of us) have far harder issues to deal with closer to home, especially at the moment.

@Greyrootszerohoots you make jokes about others being ‘hard of hearing’, but you’re not listening to my point either: it’s not just this, it’s a culture of ‘oh something sad happened? ... well what I really want to know is how it will affect ME’. It’s sad example to set for children.

Apologies for the incorrect information I gave about Peppa Pig being available on Cbeebies - I take it back. I hope that wasn’t too anxiety inducing for anyone.

Typical Mumsnet OP. You are out of sync with the nation, today. Utterly reprehensible behaviour.

It will go down like a lead balloon on a site in which undue reverence is given on the basis of heredity rather than merit, and that seemingly opposes the idea of a vote for its own head of state.

But YANBU.

I think BBC have been running the same news on all 4 channels, no programme being shown for BBC4. A bit too much

it’s a culture of ‘oh something sad happened? ... well what I really want to know is how it will affect ME’

It isn't that at all. It's more "Why would I be sad about this, it does not affect me (except that I can't watch Masterchef, which is annoying)"?

[quote Greyrootszerohoots]@cookiecreampie haha I’m not a quivering wreck and keep up to date with current events, but I’ve never seen one of this style pop up on a kids tv channel.[/quote]
The reason I knew Princess Diana had died was because children’s programming was replaced with a blank screen (I think - took me ages to work out what had happened so can’t have been a message. Maybe a crest or something?) and somber music, so it’s far from a first.

Typical Mumsnet OP. You are out of sync with the nation, today. Utterly reprehensible behaviour

We are the nation, ffs. And we are not in any sense out of sync.

It's all Me Me Me now...diddums, I can't watch my favourite programme....well occupy yourself doing something else then.

Show some respect.

@Zan58 that would assume I’m a royalist who wishes to teach my child to mourn for a 99 year old she has never met. Plenty of sad things that I will teach her about (I work in international development so sad things are a hazard of the job) when she is old enough to understand.

@Lweji

Oh, I hadn't spotted that you were making a joke. Usually they are funny.

Some require some brain power to be understood and for the reader not to be too pedantic.

Must be fun being so superior.

Show some respect

Why? Why should we show some respect for one extremely old man? I have no respect for them.
It's no sadder he died than anyone else who died today, significantly less so in fact.

I'm not saying that news coverage of Prince Philips death is not important. Just there are ways of alerting people to a programme about it without having such a vague banner at the bottom of the screen which has clearly made a few people wonder if something else important has happened.

It's more "Why would I be sad about this, it does not affect me (except that I can't watch Masterchef, which is annoying)"?

Struggling to find what is wrong with that.
How does Prince Philip's death affects people other than his family? More to the point, why does it have to affect everyone? And why does everyone has to be sad to the point of not being able to watch whatever they watch on TV?

@Keyring

It's all Me Me Me now...diddums, I can't watch my favourite programme....well occupy yourself doing something else then.

Show some respect.

We could still watch it. Just for a brief moment worried something had exploded or something.

Must be fun being so superior.

From the person who posted here just to tell me that I don't understand Godwin's Law. That is rich.

@Keyring

It's all Me Me Me now...diddums, I can't watch my favourite programme....well occupy yourself doing something else then.

Show some respect.

When my grandfather died, I was still able to watch Masterchef if I wanted. Why should I afford someone I didn't know more respect than someone in my family?

@Keyring

It's all Me Me Me now...diddums, I can't watch my favourite programme....well occupy yourself doing something else then.

Show some respect.

Rather than relaxing after a tough day, I’ll turn off the TV so I can stare whist-fully out of the window. And respectfully, of course.

@KoalaOok

I'm not saying that news coverage of Prince Philips death is not important. Just there are ways of alerting people to a programme about it without having such a vague banner at the bottom of the screen which has clearly made a few people wonder if something else important has happened.

I agree, many posters are saying that they thought something else had happened, and not only that something of a threatening nature.