It looks like the end of a media alumni love-in at Selwyn College, Cambridge. Current Master, Roger Mosey, once Editorial Director of the BBC, has allowed subs at the New Statesman to headline his critique of Prince Philip's biggest day thus: "Why the BBC’s wall-to-wall coverage of Prince Philip’s death was a mistake".
"Mistake" doesn't appear in the body of the piece, but it will surely have been noted by Tim Davie (Selwyn 1987) who must have been Gold Commander on the day, unless he was out running. And perhaps by the man in charge of tv networks, Dan McGolpin (Selwyn 1993).
Was it ALL planned ? Clearly you'd pay attention to BBC1 and BBC2, but did someone seriously say live women's football on BBC 4 was a problem ? Was it dispatched to the Red Button and iPlayer in case it got a bigger audience than the senior networks on this special day ? A matter of how it might look, rather than a genuine principle ?
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