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This seems to me factually questionable
- "Face the Axe" is OTT and premature.
- Sky says initiated by "the Black Lives Matter movement". No factual basis for this. It was initiated by Tines music critic Richard Morrison who is now allegedly backed by a Finnish conductor https://twitter.com/SkyNews/status/1297508289933127680
- "Face the Axe" is OTT and premature.
- Sky says initiated by "the Black Lives Matter movement". No factual basis for this. It was initiated by Tines music critic Richard Morrison who is now allegedly backed by a Finnish conductor https://twitter.com/SkyNews/status/1297508289933127680
I don't think @Bethanyminelle has got the story right. Where is there any public evidence that the Black Lives Matter movement has called for this? It just seems to be a Times critic & a Finnish conductor imagining what anti-racism campaigners might want https://twitter.com/sundersays/status/1297441692929404928?s=19
This Richard Morrison magazine piece initiated this in July. I do not know who speaks for Black Lives Matter but I don't think he does. https://twitter.com/sundersays/status/1281667446399803392?s=19
I think the Sky News report should be corrected. @Bethanyminelle This link to Black Lives Matter appears a BBC/media invention. It would be good to see some reflection of how many people think these daft polarising rows are a damaging distraction from anti-racist campaigns
The leader of an ethnic minority orchestra says she would be mortified if it was kept & is lobbying for it to go. Obvs individual views do differ about this though the observation that it is a v low priority for most ethnic minority Britons seems correct https://twitter.com/CLeddyOwen/status/1297588663606534145?s=19
Last Night running order. The "faces the axe" headline was premature & the prediction the axe would fall was incorrect
BBC statement
Another episode of "Culture War" called off after a 24 hour Sunday skirmish
The BBC has become the lightning rod in the proms edition of "Culture War" - though it is the BBC that brings the Proms to the national audience https://twitter.com/j_coatsworth/status/1282052807055544325?s=19
BBC Proms have announced the programme today, to end media speculation (yesterday) that it was considering dropping the songs.
Earlier today, the BBC was reporting on those newspaper reports, and the debate sparked by them. https://www.bbc.com/news/amp/entertainment-arts-53888209?__twitter_impression=true
Earlier today, the BBC was reporting on those newspaper reports, and the debate sparked by them. https://www.bbc.com/news/amp/entertainment-arts-53888209?__twitter_impression=true
It is now 51 years since the BBC proposed to ditch those songs from the 1969 Last Night of the Proms, before reversing that after the public response was strongly in favour of keeping them. (They have been played each year except 2001, after 9/11). https://twitter.com/sundersays/status/1297805628275073024?s=19
Sky News: Proms songs to stay after report they could be scrapped https://twitter.com/SkyNews/status/1298002119484739586?s=19
Telegraph: 'BBC defies government' with orchestral versions [for 2020] before they are sung again in 2021 when the audience is able to return
Ministers say this is incredible. PM's quote for focus on "substance not symbolism" reads oddly n that context. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/08/24/axeing-rule-britannia-bbc-proms-would-erase-history-culture/?WT.mc_id=tmgliveapp_androidshare_Av0PHKC6YRpy
Ministers say this is incredible. PM's quote for focus on "substance not symbolism" reads oddly n that context. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/08/24/axeing-rule-britannia-bbc-proms-would-erase-history-culture/?WT.mc_id=tmgliveapp_androidshare_Av0PHKC6YRpy
A new campaign for singing in 2020 (not just when the audience returns in 2021) & perhaps a campaign for the lyrics as subtitles may be the new fronts in this proms campaign.
The Sun says there is "uproar"
['Fears of a backlash from Black Lives Matter protestors' is massively overblown nonsense. Very few people would protest their inclusion. How much of the nonsense is from BBC & how much from the Sun is a matter of debate] https://twitter.com/MrHarryCole/status/1298026040183394305
['Fears of a backlash from Black Lives Matter protestors' is massively overblown nonsense. Very few people would protest their inclusion. How much of the nonsense is from BBC & how much from the Sun is a matter of debate] https://twitter.com/MrHarryCole/status/1298026040183394305
"BBC luvvies censor Proms crowd pleasers".
"There will be no audience at the Proms due to Covid restrictions" https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/12489411/bbc-ban-words-land-of-hope-and-glory-proms/
"There will be no audience at the Proms due to Covid restrictions" https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/12489411/bbc-ban-words-land-of-hope-and-glory-proms/
The Sun report conflates comments made before the BBC statement announced the songs were being kept with comments after
Eg the Dowden comment + this 8am tweet from Andrea Leadsom are presented as if they were responses to the orchestral announcement. https://twitter.com/andrealeadsom/status/1297792827154366468
Eg the Dowden comment + this 8am tweet from Andrea Leadsom are presented as if they were responses to the orchestral announcement. https://twitter.com/andrealeadsom/status/1297792827154366468
Mail is splashing "SURRENDER!"
Facts are
- BBC to keep Rule Britannia in proms (despite erroneous reports it would be dropped)
- currently proposes orchestral version (will be no audience in 2020; smaller orchestra & choir)
- but words to return in 2021 when audience does
Facts are
- BBC to keep Rule Britannia in proms (despite erroneous reports it would be dropped)
- currently proposes orchestral version (will be no audience in 2020; smaller orchestra & choir)
- but words to return in 2021 when audience does
The Telegraph front page report notes there will be no audience to sing along to it & invents the theory/"raises the question whether the BBC has now banned the songs for good"
The Express is declaring victory, not defeat
