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I disagree. The political nature of the interruption needs to be removed otherwise it will encourage copy cat actions, and be seen by the supporters of the guy as being a defacto acceptance of what happened by the EBU.
I agree it would be better to acknowledge the edit with a caption, but to leave the whole incident in untouched damages the contest.
Besides, it's not like this is the "official record", full copies of the PaB will be held all over Europe and the EBU won't be demanding they're deleted, it's only the YouTube copy which only Eurovision fans are going to want to watch anyway.
An acknowledgment of the edit is needed if they're going to make that edit. This seems to be happening more and more often where Broadcasters change what actually went out and cover up mistakes, mishaps and events. Go down the road 20 years and people won't believe that it happened because on the official EBU site it won't exist.
A certain Mr Williams is already responsible for some people thinking that there used to be half hour interludes at various times of the day on ITV where they showed Oracle pages. His edits are unofficial and are usually taken down. But that's one guy on the internet. When the actual broadcasters are making changes to actual events (without pointing out the edit to the viewing public) perhaps we should be concerned.
And before anyone says it, Yes this could be an overreaction, at the end of the day it's just a point of view.
It should not be sanitised and cleaned up
(edited)
as if it never occurred.
I disagree. The political nature of the interruption needs to be removed otherwise it will encourage copy cat actions, and be seen by the supporters of the guy as being a defacto acceptance of what happened by the EBU.
I agree it would be better to acknowledge the edit with a caption, but to leave the whole incident in untouched damages the contest.
Besides, it's not like this is the "official record", full copies of the PaB will be held all over Europe and the EBU won't be demanding they're deleted, it's only the YouTube copy which only Eurovision fans are going to want to watch anyway.
An acknowledgment of the edit is needed if they're going to make that edit. This seems to be happening more and more often where Broadcasters change what actually went out and cover up mistakes, mishaps and events. Go down the road 20 years and people won't believe that it happened because on the official EBU site it won't exist.
A certain Mr Williams is already responsible for some people thinking that there used to be half hour interludes at various times of the day on ITV where they showed Oracle pages. His edits are unofficial and are usually taken down. But that's one guy on the internet. When the actual broadcasters are making changes to actual events (without pointing out the edit to the viewing public) perhaps we should be concerned.
And before anyone says it, Yes this could be an overreaction, at the end of the day it's just a point of view.