Reply to: The Nelson Mandela is Dead Broadcasting Company.

[Doggy Styles]

Feck 'em.

[KentPhilip]

I noticed yesterday that the death of Peter O'Toole succeeded in pushing Mandela off the top spot (at least on the BBC News website).
Did he do it on purpose as a protest at the blanket coverage?

[darmstadt]

I remember meeting him a while ago and asked him what it was like starring opposite Jessica Tandy.

[Jeebo72]

Have they broadcast anything other than this since yesterday evening?

Oh.

They managed to slip 3 minutes of disasterous news about the test in Oz into the Today prog at 6:27.

No room for anything else.

Over 12 months ago the BBC had already spent £250,000 (fact!) putting together the Mandela is dead broadcasting. Fees have since risen I'm sure. They now need to justify it. Well prob not, as they spend our money like it's not theirs.

[Peoplesoft bloke]

I have stopped paying my TV licence. In consequence (to remain within the law) I no longer watch live TV at all which means I've been spared the TV news coverage.

However I have had to resort to listening to old podcasts to avoid the radio news over the last few days.

Mandela had many virtues, was not a saint, but was massively influential. The queue of celebs, broadcasters,dictators, war criminals, etc waiting to share their own startling insights is fairly sickening.

[d000hg]

Breaking news this morning, they are moving his body.

I mis-read it as "in a state" rather than "in state"...

[Doggy Styles]

Medium asks Nelson what he thinks of his funeral so far.

[KentPhilip]

Breaking news: Nelson Mandela - he's still dead.

[Mich the Tester]

Breaking news this morning, they are moving his body.

It is indeed getting over the top. It would be proper news if his body moved itself.

[minestrone]

Breaking news this morning, they are moving his body.

[original PM]

ClientCo's reception has a huge telly which broadcasts clientCo propaganda 24-7.

I was at one of our satellite offices (which is not situated in salubrious area) yesterday and they had Jeremy Kyle on in the canteen

problem was the denizens of the canteen made it look like they were waiting to get on the show

[Grasser73]

TV's in offices, whats that all about? Isn't looking out of the window good enough for todays workforce?

Window!? In the subterranean labs at ClientCo I'm lucky to know what season it is and whether it's day or night.

[mudskipper]

ClientCo's reception has a huge telly which broadcasts clientCo propaganda 24-7.

[darmstadt]

A lot more offices have Sky News.

TV's in offices, whats that all about? Isn't looking out of the window good enough for todays workforce?

[d000hg]

A lot more offices have Sky News.

Not the ones I've seen.