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| BBC apologises to Queen over [misleading] footage |
| 2007-07-12 |
| The British taxpayers pay through the nose for this kind of [fill in the blank]. More at the link The BBC has apologised to the Queen for wrongly implying she had stormed out of a sitting with celebrity photographer Annie Leibowitz. A trailer released yesterday for the forthcoming BBC1 documentary series A Year With The Queen gave the impression that the monarch had abruptly halted the photoshoot when Leibowitz asked her to remove her crown. Scenes of the pair clashing over the request were followed by footage of the Queen walking down a corridor and telling her lady-in-waiting: "I'm not changing anything. I've had enough dressing like this, thank you very much." But the footage was actually filmed as the Queen made her way to the sitting. The BBC said: "In this trailer there is a sequence that implies that the Queen left a sitting prematurely. This was not the case and the actual sequence of events was mis-represented. "The BBC would like to apologise to both the Queen and Annie Leibowitz for any upset this may have caused." |
| Posted by:mrp |
| #4 Reversing the order of filmed events is acceptable for fiction pieces, but for people claiming to be reporting the facts, it's unacceptable. |
| Posted by: Rob Crawford 2007-07-12 20:18 |
| #3 I think aunty's getting senile. |
| Posted by: Howard UK 2007-07-12 16:20 |
| #2 The BBC apologies for getting caught doing to the Queen what it does for every bias bigoted bit of propaganda it can sale as 'news'. Now if the Queen joined the tv tax boycott that would be interesting! A figurative [for gawd sakes, not literally] Lady Godiva moment. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2007-07-12 11:14 |
| #1 "Sorry, Queenie, don't get your knickers all twisty. Now how 'bout that raise in my allowance!" -Aunty |
| Posted by: Seafarious 2007-07-12 10:40 |