The BBC has been given Nelson Mandela’s death the needed attention with several programs looking at his life and legacy—but not every BBC viewer is happy about this.
More than 1,000 viewers have complained about ‘excessive’ coverage of Nelson Mandela’s death on BBC services, including some who grumbled about a repeat of Mrs Brown’s Boys being interrupted.
However, the BBC has defended its coverage, saying, the death of Nelson’s Mandela has ‘considerable interest’ to audiences in the UK and across the rest of the world.
According to the BBC, ‘Nelson Mandela was a hugely significant world leader with an enormous political and cultural influence across the world’—therefore the so called ‘excessive’ coverage is needed.
Some of us cannot understand why anyone would complain about the coverage of the death of Mandela—the best politician and fighter we will probably ever have.
strangely enough BBC is. widely kown for its “excesive”coverage of major events they deem newsworthy but not many have complained at this massive scale until now. funty and ironic isn’t it? smh