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The BBC has had to set up a special page to keep pace with the number of complaints about the wall to wall coverage of the death of Prince Philip. When the death was announced earlier today the BBC went into overdrive. All radio stations went onto the same coverage. BBC1 and BBC2 along with News 24 put out the same programmes. BBC4 shut down for the night and all of the evenings broadcasts were cancelled.
Why?
Did they think no one had heard the sad news. The Prince had lead a good life and was a war hero but I think even he would have been up in arms about this stunt that the Beeb had pulled. We really didn't need to hear the same stories over and over again for hour after hour. I didn't expect this of the BBC, one channel, the news channel maybe but it was more akin to watching the North Korea Broadcasting Company.
If the BBC were a subscription channel then I would have thrown in the towel.
Why?
Did they think no one had heard the sad news. The Prince had lead a good life and was a war hero but I think even he would have been up in arms about this stunt that the Beeb had pulled. We really didn't need to hear the same stories over and over again for hour after hour. I didn't expect this of the BBC, one channel, the news channel maybe but it was more akin to watching the North Korea Broadcasting Company.
If the BBC were a subscription channel then I would have thrown in the towel.
BBC inundated with complaints about coverage of Prince Philip's death
THE BBC has received so many complaints about their "wall-to-wall coverage" of Prince Philip's death that it has set up a streamlined system for viewers to formally make their criticism known.
www.express.co.uk