Rich, old prince dies – the media, on cue, loses it
Al Jazeera
Then the audience switches off the TV.
Apparently, discerning BBC viewers have had enough. Britain’s public broadcaster gave a famous 99-year-old, pampered, rich prince’s long anticipated passing the kind of coverage sensible editors usually reserve for much more profound and consequential news. So, viewers did the wise and, I suspect, in the myopic minds of BBC editors, shocking thing – they turned off their TVs in droves.
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