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Prince Philip News Coverage

(April 2008)

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LO
Londoner
m_in_m posted:
Seems more likely that someone published rather than saving to the appropriate place for obituaries and the like.


Quite. In this sort of thread people always talk the most ridiculous bollocks about embargoes and conspiracies.
JA
jay Founding member
Londoner posted:
m_in_m posted:
Seems more likely that someone published rather than saving to the appropriate place for obituaries and the like.


Quite. In this sort of thread people always talk the most ridiculous **** about embargoes and conspiracies.

How is it ridiculous ****? Embargoes are common place in the media and happen all the time.
BR
Brekkie
Well Gary Lineker was wearing a black tie on Match of the Day earlier! Wink


The memories Laughing
GI
gillw72
I know that media agencies would have obits ready for leading figures, but would they have webpages ready as well???

Surely these would get written when something happens with the relevant details......
MI
m_in_m
I would have thought any sensible news organisation would put the same advanced preparation into any web articles as they would for a radio or television piece. People expect news 24/7 and wherever they are. More and more people turn to the internet, especially if rumours are going around during the working day.
MD
mdtauk
gillw posted:
I know that media agencies would have obits ready for leading figures, but would they have webpages ready as well???

Surely these would get written when something happens with the relevant details......


Most web publishing systems, have delayed article functions, where you set an embargo or hold back articles from going live until a certain time.
JR
jrothwell97
martinDTanderson posted:
gillw posted:
I know that media agencies would have obits ready for leading figures, but would they have webpages ready as well???

Surely these would get written when something happens with the relevant details......


Most web publishing systems, have delayed article functions, where you set an embargo or hold back articles from going live until a certain time.


It would certainly be a very long embargo. Several hours since it appeared, and now disappeared.

I assume web pages would be prepared and saved as drafts, so the few hours between the news being sent to the agencies and the embargo being lifted would be enough to dust it up, make it seem more relevant, and publish it.
SS
SecretStar
Is he ill, then?

David Icke told me he was a shapeshifting lizard that comes from the same bloodline as GW Bush and is part of a secret society that is planning to psychologically enslave the populations of the western world.

Hmm.
IS
Inspector Sands
SecretStar posted:
Is he ill, then?

David Icke told me he was a shapeshifting lizard that comes from the same bloodline as GW Bush and is part of a secret society that is planning to psychologically enslave the populations of the western world.


Not as ill as David Icke.... just in a diffrent way! Laughing
NE
Newsroom
Drama over - he is being discharged!
GI
gilsta
Newsroom posted:
Drama over - he is being discharged!


Could've been a double.
NU
NewsUpdate
Coverage was spot on IMO, can imagine all the newsrooms preparing everything, BBC's news editor making sure Peter Sissons had a BLACK tie.......LOL

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