Brit viewers tell BBC to lay off the Jackson action
July 9th, 2009
Filed under: News, Music and Variety, Obituaries
I wasn’t the only guy wishing Michael Jackson’s friends and family would have shown a little more decorum and restraint in turning the singer’s funeral into a bad impersonation of The People’s Choice Awards.
The BBC reported 473 complaints about its coverage of the Jackson memorial service. The calls “expressed unhappiness” at the way the BBC dedicated two of its networks to the Los Angeles ceremony.
Obviously, considering the millions of TVs trained on the Jackson farewell all around the world, a few hundred moans with British accents don’t qualify as an avalanche of negativity. But, the BBC admitted that 91 of the calls were specifically about the “excessive” coverage, and many griped about the maudlin tone of the reporting.
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