Media mistakes

[EEPhil]

Did he mix him up with his brother I wonder?
Perhaps he was being sarcastic calling PoW "her majesty", just like some people (ie. me) do when referring to those with an over-inflated ego as "your majesty". If so - off with his head!

 

[prpr]

Did he mix him up with his brother I wonder?

Clearly, as Sir D is a regular. But it's a bit poor.

Perhaps he was being sarcastic calling PoW "her majesty"

I somehow doubt it. I've heard people do the opposite - referring to the king/queen as his/her royal highness - who really should know better.

referring to those with an over-inflated ego as "your majesty".

I can't say "Kate" would be put into that category. Now that dreadful American woman is a different matter altogether, and would be worthy of the sarcasm.
(I didn't see her on Ct.1 yesterday, nor did she scan my ticket for entry.)

 

[EEPhil]

But it's a bit poor.

Just a bit? A lot!

I can't say "Kate" would be put into that category.

I wasn't saying she would. I was saying I might have called some jumped up twerp "your majesty".

Now that dreadful American woman is a different matter altogether

Mrs Simpson or some third rate actress in some series I've never watched, Suits was it?

 

[prpr]

Mrs Simpson or some third rate actress in some series I've never watched, Suits was it?

The latter, and it was. I've never seen a frame of it either, and have no desire to.
Mrs S is decades dead and therefore has no ego.

 

[Black Hole]

Chris Bradnam @ Wimbledon yesterday...

Obviously inadequately briefed, another example of BBC slippage.

 

[prpr]

Obviously inadequately briefed, another example of BBC slippage.

I don't either of those is necessarily true. It's just general knowledge, or the lack thereof.

 

[gomezz]

My general knowledge seems to be lacking. World Cup coverage zooms onto a VIP box and the commentator says "and there is so and so" but I have no idea of which of the several people on view is so and so.

(only one I have recognised is that infamous photo-bomber John Terry)

 

[Black Hole]

I don't either of those is necessarily true. It's just general knowledge, or the lack thereof.

They shouldn't have to rely on general knowledge, and I'm sure they never used to have to. Presenters etc would have been told what the correct form of address for Her Royal Highness is. As for the Richard Attenborough faux pas, that's definitely bad, but did you hear the prize presentation for the Boat Race?

 

[prpr]

They shouldn't have to rely on general knowledge, and I'm sure they never used to have to.

You can't brief a commentator about everything they may possibly want to say, especially if you don't know what they are going to say and when they are responding to unpredictable events.

did you hear the prize presentation for the Boat Race?

I did, and probably cringed at the time, but the detail has evaporated from my brain since, so you'll have to remind me.