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    The Windsor's Royal Wedding with Harry Enfield was very good
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    Quote Originally Posted by Pieoftheday View Post
    The Windsor's Royal Wedding with Harry Enfield was very good
    That made laugh when Harry's character said for the stag night he's really going to tone it down! Get smashed then maybe a casino, nightclub and a brothel to finish off.
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    Quote Originally Posted by walpurgis View Post
    And a funeral or two.
    Evan that’s got to be more entertaining than the average football match!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Macca View Post
    If it occupied 90% of the news all year I think you'd have a point but it has only been for a week.
    Seems like a damn sight longer!

    You've always got the option not to watch the news whilst it is going on. I mean I've got no interest in the tennis so I don't watch all the Wimbledon coverage which takes over the BBC for two weeks every year but I don't complain about it. World Cup is coming up now and no doubt there are a shedload of people who couldn't get enough of the royal wedding who will have zero interest in that. Does that mean it shouldn't be all over the news for a fortnight? There's got to be a bit of give and take with regard to these things.
    Sure, I'm all for give and take. The problem for me though, aside from the news, is twofold:

    1) Outside of the news, I don't expect to hear about the bloody wedding during programmes that are completely unrelated to it, such like (as happened) during a cookery or sport programme, or on any of the soaps. Keep it *strictly* to the news, or programmes entitled 'Get all your royal wedding news here'.

    2) When reporting on it, don't *automatically presume* that those watching are 'cock-a-hoop' about the whole thing, and can't sleep without knowing what the bride's hair will be like, what the style of her dress will be, or some other such banality, as a significant percentage of the audience won't GIVE A FUCK.

    Life doesn't revolve around royal weddings. Simples!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Marco View Post
    2) When reporting on it, don't *automatically presume* that those watching are 'cock-a-hoop' about the whole thing, and can't sleep without knowing what the bride's hair will be like, what the style of her dress will be, or some other such banality, as a significant percentage of the audience won't GIVE A FUCK..
    I'm not sure how that would work. Would a reporter be allowed to say, as an aside 'Look, I'm as bored with this as you are, but I've got to pretend to care'? Would that be OK whatever the person was reporting on (Brexit, football, Trump's latest nonsense)? Reporters have to work on the basis that those watching are interested in what they're reporting on. Personally, I never watch the TV news, and switch off the radio news once they've got past the main headlines. I've successfully managed to avoid all coverage of the royal wedding simply by doing more gardening.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Joe View Post
    I've successfully managed to avoid all coverage of the royal wedding simply by doing more gardening.
    Much the same here.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Joe View Post
    I'm not sure how that would work. Would a reporter be allowed to say, as an aside 'Look, I'm as bored with this as you are, but I've got to pretend to care'? Would that be OK whatever the person was reporting on (Brexit, football, Trump's latest nonsense)? Reporters have to work on the basis that those watching are interested in what they're reporting on. Personally, I never watch the TV news, and switch off the radio news once they've got past the main headlines. I've successfully managed to avoid all coverage of the royal wedding simply by doing more gardening.
    I did mean to watch the wedding (or at least have it on in the background while I did something else. But I forgot all about it until Geoff reminded me. So I don't know what category that puts me in. Certainly when I was younger I would have had no truck with it at all but now it does vaguely interest me. I quite like a bit of pomp and circumstance. I usually have The Trooping Of The Colour on too, if I remember that it is happening.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Joe View Post
    I'm not sure how that would work. Would a reporter be allowed to say, as an aside 'Look, I'm as bored with this as you are, but I've got to pretend to care'? Would that be OK whatever the person was reporting on (Brexit, football, Trump's latest nonsense)? Reporters have to work on the basis that those watching are interested in what they're reporting on. Personally, I never watch the TV news, and switch off the radio news once they've got past the main headlines. I've successfully managed to avoid all coverage of the royal wedding simply by doing more gardening.
    Sure, but there's a difference between being interested in something, and obsessed - and automatically assuming that your audience falls into the latter category, by using language which conveys that. Such, as: 'Aren't we all so excited about the wedding tomorrow?', which is something I heard on Good Morning Britain.

    Well, actually, no we're not.

    Mention the subject, by all means, *if* it's relevant, and deal with it professionally, but don't automatically assume that viewers feel the same way about it as you. That's my point

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    Quote Originally Posted by Macca View Post
    I quite like a bit of pomp and circumstance. I usually have The Trooping Of The Colour on too, if I remember that it is happening.
    Lol - you're on your own there, then. That's something I'd avoid like the plague... I'd rather sit and watch cricket, and if you knew how I felt about cricket [and how achingly boring, to the point of slitting wrists, I find it], that's saying something!

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    Hi Shane,

    Quote Originally Posted by shane View Post
    I absolutely agree with you Marco, but I’m going to turn your argument inside out. I’m fed up to the back teeth with the enormous attention given in the media to teams of millionaire oafs whose only talent is to be able to run round a field for 90 minutes in their underwear chasing a ball. Day after day, month after month, year after year the media are drenched with their antics and the minutiae of their worthless lives.
    I know where you're coming from, to an extent, but would have to dispute the latter. Unless you're watching the likes of 'Match of the Day', or reading the back pages of newspapers, or go looking for football in some other way, I'm not aware of the media 'drenching us in their antics', at anything like the level seen recently with this royal wedding.

    Even when watching the news, the sport/football is always separate and tagged onto the end, so easily avoided.

    Now if you'd said to me that when the likes of the World Cup is on (which it will be soon), the main TV channels are saturated with football coverage, in the way that the news was recently saturated with discussing the minutiae of the royal wedding, then you'd have a point, and I'd agree

    However, even when the World Cup is on, you rarely see it completely taking over other programmes, which have nothing whatsoever to do with football, such I've seen this week with the royal wedding - and it's *that* which pisses me off most.

    Things should be remain confined to within their relevant context, and so Jimmy, the footy fan, who's no more interested in hearing about royal weddings, during a cookery programme he happens to be watching, than Jeannie, the royal family fan, is interested in hearing about the World Cup, during say, an episode of Eastenders.

    Keep things in their proper context. And if you want to descend into nationalistic 'fanboyism' levels, over a particular subject, then ensure that you're preaching to the converted.

    That's my point!

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