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...almost hysterical uproar blew up over the BBC's coverage of the royal death. The trigger was BBC newscaster Peter Sissons, who did not switch his maroon tie to the traditional black tie of mourning as did presenters on the independent channels in those first hours of the royal death coverage. There were other charges, led by the right-wing Daily Mail, of insensitive BBC interviewing and claims that Prince Charles had been angry enough to give the rival ITV channel an interview about his grandmother rather than the BBC. It turned out, however, that the interview had been allotted...
...even overshadowed the quiet journey last Tuesday of the Queen Mother's coffin from Windsor to St. James's Palace near Clarence House, where it remained for three days for the royal family's private mourning. By Friday, however, the BBC furor was almost forgotten, eclipsed by the ceremonial spectacle of the 29-minute procession that escorted the coffin to its lying-in-state at Westminster Hall, a part of the Houses of Parliament. As black-tied, black-suited TV presenters on every channel pointed out, it was a splendid event, the biggest display of pageantry since Winston Churchill...
Sources: L.A. Times, Center for Media & Public Affairs, BBC, Newsday...
...been the unwillingness of the Catholic hierarchy to take action on abusing clergy that has stored up problems for the church. In the case of Fortune, a BBC TV program last week alleged that he was abusing boys over a 20-year period, a situation that was so widely known that his parishioners complained about his predatory behavior to Bishop Comiskey's predecessor, Bishop Herlihey, as well as to the Vatican's ambassador to Ireland, the Papal Nuncio, and ultimately to the Vatican itself. The only result was that Fortune was moved from one parish and then sent...
According to a bbc poll Gilmour cites, Kipling's famous ode to self-improvement, If, remains Britain's favorite poem. His verse and stories about the British in India still largely determine how the Brits think of that era. His lifelong interest in the country's military transformed its reputation. His home in Sussex has become a national shrine. More subtly, Kipling - the least pretentious of men and ever supportive of the underdog - had a huge and permanent influence in closing the gap in Britain between "high" and "popular" culture...