Two major TV executives have resigned over an investigation which looked into a piece of film footage which claimed to be misrepresenting The Queen. The footage was part of a documentary which was due to be shown on BBC One. The channel’s controller, Peter Fincham, and Stephen Lambert, from RDF Media, the company which produced the documentary, both resigned their respective posts.
According to reports, the investigation into the footage, which was wrongly shown as ‘the Queen walking out of a photo session in a huff’, had blamed, ‘misjudgements, poor practice, and ineffective systems’.
Apart from the BBC and the royal watchers in the press, does anybody care about this incident? This is creating a mountain out of a molehill, and two people lose their jobs over something very trivial. Of course there is a serious crisis in British television, so please, save our anger for the fact that the BBC is planning to cut its entire workforce by nearly 10 per cent, and ITV wants to reduce the number of regional news teams by nearly half (they’ve already abandoned childrens’ programming, relying on American imports).
These and other negative factors will affect what viewers watch in the future …. and yet most of us haven’t even bothered to notice.