Isn’t this irresponsibly frightening? It’s not nuclear war.

What’s the reasoning here? “No joy for you, proles. You must mourn. MOURN!” What harm were old episodes of Top of the Pops doing anyone looking to skip BBC local news going “Phil loved this region, we have witnesses!”

Not a great day for the case that linear TV trumps streaming, huh?

Some impressive stuff going on (a BBC News anchor switched to sad clothes *during a live VO*). But the acres of filler, weak takes, apocalyptic messaging and removal of variety? Who’d promote any service on that?

A lot of people talking about “agreed protocols” as if synonymous with “broadcaster requirements” tonight.

But then, this period of mourning also seems to make folk want to insult strangers over social media. How reverential.

It’s what he would have wanted, probably.

Been trying to work out why the massive broadcaster emphasis of the death of a royal has bothered me. Lack of royalist sentiment aside.

Part is definitely how “The licence fee gets you all this!” is never followed with “unless we opt to drop it, in which case it doesn’t”…

…But more, I think is: It’s already a pandemic. We don’t need more discomfort.

Caption cautiously. Unsettling captioning and channel culling is not reassuring. And shouldn’t reassurance be part of the remit?

During 2021’s hopeless quest for any kind of stability, is it so wrong to balance the need to Mark The Moment with the need for the public service broadcaster to be a friend in strange times? The friend who says “So do you want to talk about it, or would you rather not?”

I mean, rather than the friend who says “Well, I’m talking about it, and if you’re not up for that go and talk to someone else.”