Tuesday 5 June 2012

Cock-up or conspiracy II

Those who know me well know that I am usually very circumspect in criticism of others, but in this case I am more and more convinced 'something must be done'.

I encourage everyone to write to the BBC, to the press, to Parliament, Ofcom -  to Tweet, FB, etc. etc. - this was a complete failure by the BBC and someone (probably a few) should be: (1) held accountable (2) made to publicly apologise and then (3) sacked. The BBC did not represent or acknowledge with any respect the vast majority of performers and composers on Sunday. And it also did a great disservice to the organisers of the pageant with its wilful mis-representation of the event. Perhaps a 45 minute programme featuring all the music Herald barges would go someway towards saying sorry?

In my previous post, I omitted to mention all the families of the members of the Commonwealth choir (from all around the globe) who were hoping to see a glimpse of their son/daughter/brother/sister singing in front of HMQ. I can only apologise for the lamentable 'show' you saw - I assure you, the choir, in fact the whole pageant was an absolute triumph.



3 comments:

  1. Ironically, several weeks before, Radio 3 had devoted a lengthy programme to selective interviews with the composers and excerpts from their music in progress.

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  2. Yes - we all gave freely of our time beforehand -including allowing cameras (always disruptive) to film the recording of our CD.

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  3. Surely the best next move is to get an ITV programme commissioned on exactly what happened. They would be more than interested to present the BBC in a clear light?

    And then present the music?

    If the BBC would not allow it the correct behaviour would be to do it anyway and be sued.

    I think you will find many assigned to the event by the BBC were opposed to monarchy and may have worked hard to make the BBC appear grossly incompetent in covering the event.

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