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BBC News Mandela Coverage

That is a very important point - did anything important actually happen that was missed by the BBC in the time it didn't talk about the storm on TV?


Good point and no, it didn't. AFAIK nobody died or was seriously overnight. Because this was flooding from a storm surge the areas to be flooded were easily predicted and relatively limited and everyone who was going to move had been moved (or refused to do so!) hours earlier.

The "coverage" that everyone was craving would quite simply have been journalists speculating over black screens, because you can't film the sea at night. Blanket storm coverage would have been a huge misapplication of resources on any night, but on the night that Nelson Mandela died? Unforgiveable.
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BBC News Mandela Coverage

That is a very important point - did anything important actually happen that was missed by the BBC in the time it didn't talk about the storm on TV?


Good point and no, it didn't. AFAIK nobody died or was seriously overnight. Because this was flooding from a storm surge the areas to be flooded were easily predicted and relatively limited and everyone who was going to move had been moved (or refused to do so!) hours earlier.

The "coverage" that everyone was craving would quite simply have been journalists speculating over black screens, because you can't film the sea at night. Blanket storm coverage would have been a huge misapplication of resources on any night, but on the night that Nelson Mandela died? Unforgiveable.