A larger percentage than the Tories won the last election with.
I think Disney+ got the balance about right.
BBC has been ridiculous
I sent my usual complaint to the BBC, as I did after Phil the Greek croaked. It’s sickening sycophancy. I wonder if their journalists/reporters that don’t buy into this mass groupthink are excused having to chew over precisely fuck all for hour after hour on TV?
I don’t have much of a concern about too much. You don’t have to watch it if you are not interested.
But I am annoyed when the BBC, in charge of 4 main channels, turns three channels off as if it is 1963 again, and there is only one channel. That is patronising beyond belief. Why can’t the BBC accept that somebody may want to watch a nature documentary, even after the Queen has died?
As much as I would like to the defend the BBC, they have brought so much damage upon themselves, I don’t think they will survive much longer.
The other half have streaming subscriptions and didn’t bother watching.
Coverage of actual events plus programmes looking at history of the Queen I think should be expected and were always going to be broadcast. Some have been interesting and I’m fine about that.
However, what I don’t understand is large tracts of filming “The Queue” live – like for hours and hours. That’s ridiculous. Fine to show that there IS this queue phenomenon, show the historical moments like the vigils in a news broadcast, but just filming a queue continuously for hours is way too excessive and unnecessary.
I’m a journalist in the UK and can say that journalists have always talked about the Queen’s death as THE BIGGEST news story with some sort of mythical status.
Now it has finally happened, all the journalists and people working in news media are covering it on a scale they think matches what they imagined it would be – meaning constantly covering it and covering virtually nothing else.
Many reporters I know actually see it as so big that they have cancelled holidays abroad and abandoned birthday plans to cover it. Again, it’s a mythical event and they had to be involved so they could tell their grandchildren (who of course won’t care at all). I understand the Queen’s death does matter to people, but I feel like the extent of the coverage has really been to satisfy the journalists doing it rather than to serve the public.
I’m surprised it’s thst low.
I’m struggling to give a **** about any of this at the best of times, let alone when we have an 8 hour block of programmes thst has nothing to say for 7 and a half hours of it.
Don’t even bother touching national television for a few weeks after the death of a monarch.
I just thought this morning: No point in checking BBC News Online, since it will be wall to wall dead queen. So, at least I have scooted back a few minutes of my day. Meanwhile the filming of the personally, tragically, bereaved, standing in a que to see a box, like zombie sheep, is just mind blowing. To what end are they filming and streaming days of this ‘amazing spectacle of outpouring’?
Survey demonstrates that in all surveys, 2% of respondents either didn’t understand the question, or are taking the piss.
The other half don’t watch live TV anymore and only watch subscription services
I’d say there’s been too much but it’s not bothered me at all really. If people want to watch 24 hour mournfest they can. I’ve got plenty of other options with streaming and games. It’s not like it’s a choice between queen death or nothing
Lets not forget the fucking arresting lots of people for speaking their mind, including in cities where they aren’t remotely near the royals. Oh and the RT style deranged nationalist tub thumping.
Everyone is rightfully hating on Russia these days, but the structure of their society is where we are headed. Massive inequality with most people struggling and a few living like kings, corrupt politicians handing out contracts to their corrupt business mates, pathetic bootlicking national news, rampant addiction and unaddressed social problems,protestors harassed or arrested for holding up blank placards, and all justified by delusional nostalgia for empire and glory.
I got home yesterday and my partner had the telly on. It was excessive coverage of ‘the queue’ and various other coverage relating to the royals. I asked him to change it to the news instead so I could get the headlines before being told this was the news. I was saddened by the Queen’s death and will watch the funeral tomorrow but yeah, this has been excessive at a time so much else is going on in the world.
I’ve only seen it on the news. It’s actually highlighted to me how little terrestrial tv I watch and what a waste of money my tv license is.
I tend to flick between prime, Disney and Netflix with the odd show on sky. The only time I’ve been faced with the queen stuff is when I have actively sought out the news and I suppose it is news.
Message to anyone who is feeling overwhelmed by queen stuff, stop watching the crap channels for a few days, I’m sure cash in the attack, comedy panel shows and Eastenders will be back next week.
What I’ve found ironically annoying is that the flip side is much of the internet won’t shut up about how annoying it is people wont shut up.
So TV is all about the Queen being amazing and then reddit is still about the royals and how we are all talking about them too much.
Believe it or not, this is the scaled back version. After the second day or so, the BBC found that people weren’t watching royal coverage as much and introduced more other stuff.
It’s way over the top. It’s downright depressing to have to watch footage of a coffin for hours on end as the only option.
The complete control of the narrative around the death of the Queen has been disgusting, and this is coming from a staunch royalist. No one is allowed to say “I simply don’t care, I didn’t know her, it doesn’t affect me” without being attacked.
I’m so glad I just stream everything these days – I’ve managed to avoid pretty much everything so far!
I’ve avoided 100% of the coverage by not owning a TV. Did I mention that I don’t have a TV?
I’m a foreign exchange student and it’s really weird but oddly amusing that I have seen cranes and bulldozers of all things that have signs that mourn the queen’s death. I mean.. Just why heavy duty equipment???
Probably because the protocols for the BBC were written in the 1950s. We’re in a different era now, and they haven’t updated. Nobody involved in the planning of the death of the last monarch is still alive, so you’ve just got these processes that nobody dared to change. Can you imagine the outrage from right wingers who found out that the BBC had secretly changed the protocols for coverage of the Queens death before she died?
Either way, we’ve all lived through it now, so they’ll probably assess in the coming years and it won’t happen again.
All this circus is so cringe. The UK should do away with the monarchy so that this cringe fest doesn’t repeat anymore.
It has been the longest 10 days of my life. All the ceremonies being dragged out and lying in state have made it feel like months. I feel lucky to have been able to witness some of the more intimate aspects and have incredible respect for young James agreeing to a televised vigil.
Tragic to think that the next time this happens it will be (hopefully by then united) William and Harry burying their dad.
I don’t mind the amount of coverage as it is a historical moment
However, i object to the fawning and god-like image the royals are being given. The media portrsys these people as if we should be in awe of them
Its like north korean media, only worship is allowed
I am absolutely appalled at the level of coverage that this has been getting especially when I’m sitting here about to play ip dip dog shit with my radiators.
I just wish it would end.
I’m a Brit abroad. Sometimes I miss being back in the UK as I feel I miss out on big events that bring us together. For example, I would have loved to be in a pub when the women won the Euros this summer.
This is not one of those times.
Words cannot explain adequately enough how glad I am to be outside of the UK right now.
As Stephen Nolan said.
Enforced Mourning
And if you challenge it you are rounded on as if you had 2 alligator heads for arms
My problem is that the media is constantly telling us how we are supposed to feel. They are always trying to whip us up I to an emotional frenzy and it has become tiring. This is just the latest event. Why do I need to have my emotions dictated to me? Now when I see those mourners waiting in line I just feel incredibly suspicious.
With all due respect to her majesty, I only want to hear any more of the Queen’s death if she suddenly reanimated as a zombie and start the zombie apocalypse.
I’ve had enough. I sent the BBC a complaint saying it was getting ridiculous and it was grotesque. Sorry but state enforced mourning is absolutely pathetic.
Too much?
Honestly it’s been a fucking joke, the way they’re carrying on like something actually important has happened.
I couldn’t give a flying fuck that a 96 year old billionaire has died in her fucking castle after a lifetime of leisure or ‘duty’ depending on your opinion…
It’s not even like she’s was a celebrity for any reason that I actually respect, sure she wasn’t a total cunt when she could have been, but is that glaring hole in our society, the fact we elevate some people to this level of power, wealth & status through no merit of their own really worth celebrating when we have just unjustifiable levels of inequality and poverty?
I will not mourn for these overpriviledged scam artists, the royal family symbolizes everything wrong with this country in my eyes. We need less nepotism, more meritocracy, less shady nebulous power structures and more accountability, less extravagant displays of wealth (funerals, coronations, jubilees etc etc) and more weath redistribution.
The entire premise is that their ‘lineage’ somehow matters or is special, I just can’t get past that, what an arrogant cunt you’d have to be to go along with that shite. You’re not better than anyone, you’re just rich and came out of the right vaj at the right time.
I’m so embarassed by my countrymen and this extended mourning olympics for a woman who they never met and categorically couldn’t have given a toss about them. Support of the monarchy !== patriotism, it just makes you a fool.
Legitimately didn’t even realise till today we get the Monday off or that’s when the funeral is, I’m that zoned out of the whole thing.
I’m actually fucking livid that this has practically plastered over the recent Ukraine offensive and the mass graves they’ve found, never mind the absolute fuckery going on at home with cost of living.
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A larger percentage than the Tories won the last election with.
I think Disney+ got the balance about right.
BBC has been ridiculous
I sent my usual complaint to the BBC, as I did after Phil the Greek croaked. It’s sickening sycophancy. I wonder if their journalists/reporters that don’t buy into this mass groupthink are excused having to chew over precisely fuck all for hour after hour on TV?
I don’t have much of a concern about too much. You don’t have to watch it if you are not interested.
But I am annoyed when the BBC, in charge of 4 main channels, turns three channels off as if it is 1963 again, and there is only one channel. That is patronising beyond belief. Why can’t the BBC accept that somebody may want to watch a nature documentary, even after the Queen has died?
As much as I would like to the defend the BBC, they have brought so much damage upon themselves, I don’t think they will survive much longer.
The other half have streaming subscriptions and didn’t bother watching.
Coverage of actual events plus programmes looking at history of the Queen I think should be expected and were always going to be broadcast. Some have been interesting and I’m fine about that.
However, what I don’t understand is large tracts of filming “The Queue” live – like for hours and hours. That’s ridiculous. Fine to show that there IS this queue phenomenon, show the historical moments like the vigils in a news broadcast, but just filming a queue continuously for hours is way too excessive and unnecessary.
I’m a journalist in the UK and can say that journalists have always talked about the Queen’s death as THE BIGGEST news story with some sort of mythical status.
Now it has finally happened, all the journalists and people working in news media are covering it on a scale they think matches what they imagined it would be – meaning constantly covering it and covering virtually nothing else.
Many reporters I know actually see it as so big that they have cancelled holidays abroad and abandoned birthday plans to cover it. Again, it’s a mythical event and they had to be involved so they could tell their grandchildren (who of course won’t care at all). I understand the Queen’s death does matter to people, but I feel like the extent of the coverage has really been to satisfy the journalists doing it rather than to serve the public.
I’m surprised it’s thst low.
I’m struggling to give a **** about any of this at the best of times, let alone when we have an 8 hour block of programmes thst has nothing to say for 7 and a half hours of it.
Don’t even bother touching national television for a few weeks after the death of a monarch.
I just thought this morning: No point in checking BBC News Online, since it will be wall to wall dead queen. So, at least I have scooted back a few minutes of my day. Meanwhile the filming of the personally, tragically, bereaved, standing in a que to see a box, like zombie sheep, is just mind blowing. To what end are they filming and streaming days of this ‘amazing spectacle of outpouring’?
Survey demonstrates that in all surveys, 2% of respondents either didn’t understand the question, or are taking the piss.
The other half don’t watch live TV anymore and only watch subscription services
I’d say there’s been too much but it’s not bothered me at all really. If people want to watch 24 hour mournfest they can. I’ve got plenty of other options with streaming and games. It’s not like it’s a choice between queen death or nothing
Lets not forget the fucking arresting lots of people for speaking their mind, including in cities where they aren’t remotely near the royals. Oh and the RT style deranged nationalist tub thumping.
Everyone is rightfully hating on Russia these days, but the structure of their society is where we are headed. Massive inequality with most people struggling and a few living like kings, corrupt politicians handing out contracts to their corrupt business mates, pathetic bootlicking national news, rampant addiction and unaddressed social problems,protestors harassed or arrested for holding up blank placards, and all justified by delusional nostalgia for empire and glory.
I got home yesterday and my partner had the telly on. It was excessive coverage of ‘the queue’ and various other coverage relating to the royals. I asked him to change it to the news instead so I could get the headlines before being told this was the news. I was saddened by the Queen’s death and will watch the funeral tomorrow but yeah, this has been excessive at a time so much else is going on in the world.
I’ve only seen it on the news. It’s actually highlighted to me how little terrestrial tv I watch and what a waste of money my tv license is.
I tend to flick between prime, Disney and Netflix with the odd show on sky. The only time I’ve been faced with the queen stuff is when I have actively sought out the news and I suppose it is news.
Message to anyone who is feeling overwhelmed by queen stuff, stop watching the crap channels for a few days, I’m sure cash in the attack, comedy panel shows and Eastenders will be back next week.
What I’ve found ironically annoying is that the flip side is much of the internet won’t shut up about how annoying it is people wont shut up.
So TV is all about the Queen being amazing and then reddit is still about the royals and how we are all talking about them too much.
Believe it or not, this is the scaled back version. After the second day or so, the BBC found that people weren’t watching royal coverage as much and introduced more other stuff.
It’s way over the top. It’s downright depressing to have to watch footage of a coffin for hours on end as the only option.
The complete control of the narrative around the death of the Queen has been disgusting, and this is coming from a staunch royalist. No one is allowed to say “I simply don’t care, I didn’t know her, it doesn’t affect me” without being attacked.
I’m so glad I just stream everything these days – I’ve managed to avoid pretty much everything so far!
I’ve avoided 100% of the coverage by not owning a TV. Did I mention that I don’t have a TV?
I’m a foreign exchange student and it’s really weird but oddly amusing that I have seen cranes and bulldozers of all things that have signs that mourn the queen’s death. I mean.. Just why heavy duty equipment???
Probably because the protocols for the BBC were written in the 1950s. We’re in a different era now, and they haven’t updated. Nobody involved in the planning of the death of the last monarch is still alive, so you’ve just got these processes that nobody dared to change. Can you imagine the outrage from right wingers who found out that the BBC had secretly changed the protocols for coverage of the Queens death before she died?
Either way, we’ve all lived through it now, so they’ll probably assess in the coming years and it won’t happen again.
All this circus is so cringe. The UK should do away with the monarchy so that this cringe fest doesn’t repeat anymore.
It has been the longest 10 days of my life. All the ceremonies being dragged out and lying in state have made it feel like months. I feel lucky to have been able to witness some of the more intimate aspects and have incredible respect for young James agreeing to a televised vigil.
Tragic to think that the next time this happens it will be (hopefully by then united) William and Harry burying their dad.
I don’t mind the amount of coverage as it is a historical moment
However, i object to the fawning and god-like image the royals are being given. The media portrsys these people as if we should be in awe of them
Its like north korean media, only worship is allowed
I am absolutely appalled at the level of coverage that this has been getting especially when I’m sitting here about to play ip dip dog shit with my radiators.
I just wish it would end.
I’m a Brit abroad. Sometimes I miss being back in the UK as I feel I miss out on big events that bring us together. For example, I would have loved to be in a pub when the women won the Euros this summer.
This is not one of those times.
Words cannot explain adequately enough how glad I am to be outside of the UK right now.
As Stephen Nolan said.
Enforced Mourning
And if you challenge it you are rounded on as if you had 2 alligator heads for arms
My problem is that the media is constantly telling us how we are supposed to feel. They are always trying to whip us up I to an emotional frenzy and it has become tiring. This is just the latest event. Why do I need to have my emotions dictated to me? Now when I see those mourners waiting in line I just feel incredibly suspicious.
With all due respect to her majesty, I only want to hear any more of the Queen’s death if she suddenly reanimated as a zombie and start the zombie apocalypse.
I’ve had enough. I sent the BBC a complaint saying it was getting ridiculous and it was grotesque. Sorry but state enforced mourning is absolutely pathetic.
Too much?
Honestly it’s been a fucking joke, the way they’re carrying on like something actually important has happened.
I couldn’t give a flying fuck that a 96 year old billionaire has died in her fucking castle after a lifetime of leisure or ‘duty’ depending on your opinion…
It’s not even like she’s was a celebrity for any reason that I actually respect, sure she wasn’t a total cunt when she could have been, but is that glaring hole in our society, the fact we elevate some people to this level of power, wealth & status through no merit of their own really worth celebrating when we have just unjustifiable levels of inequality and poverty?
I will not mourn for these overpriviledged scam artists, the royal family symbolizes everything wrong with this country in my eyes. We need less nepotism, more meritocracy, less shady nebulous power structures and more accountability, less extravagant displays of wealth (funerals, coronations, jubilees etc etc) and more weath redistribution.
The entire premise is that their ‘lineage’ somehow matters or is special, I just can’t get past that, what an arrogant cunt you’d have to be to go along with that shite. You’re not better than anyone, you’re just rich and came out of the right vaj at the right time.
I’m so embarassed by my countrymen and this extended mourning olympics for a woman who they never met and categorically couldn’t have given a toss about them. Support of the monarchy !== patriotism, it just makes you a fool.
Legitimately didn’t even realise till today we get the Monday off or that’s when the funeral is, I’m that zoned out of the whole thing.
I’m actually fucking livid that this has practically plastered over the recent Ukraine offensive and the mass graves they’ve found, never mind the absolute fuckery going on at home with cost of living.