The media have seriously got this one wrong. Newspapers arrive two hours late this morning because the print was delayed owing to all the Phillip articles being included. This caused chaos for us as we have around 150 deliveries so the phone never stopped ringing and both the delivery customers and the ones who came into the shop were less than happy. The big topic of conversation was the amount of coverage on the BBC particularly and also ITV and without exception everyone thought it was way over the top how virtually the whole network was given over to the Duke and all regular programs were dropped. And bear in mind most of our customers are 40+, not young revolutionaries.
The Beeb has a rolling 24 hour news channel which is available free to air for everyone, why they needed to use both main channels to show exactly the same pictures all night long is without explanation. The radio was no better, normal music shows on R1 and R2 scrapped today and yesterday for the same reason. R4 is for news, the other stations for entertainment.
Probably no more than ten to fifteen percent of the population take any more than a passing interest in the story, the rest of us are bored stiff with it. God help us when The Boss goes.
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