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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.It was perfectly clear that the "that man" Prince Charles was referring to was Nicholas Witchell. However, on both their lunchtime and 6 PM news broadcasts, the BBC tried to present the incident as if it was just journalists in general rather than their own 'Royal Correspondent' being commented on. They really are so self-defensive it's unbelievable!
I have to say I totally agree with the Prince, which is saying something coming from a republican such as me.
In the report he Mr Witchell shows himself asking a question; "8 days now to the wedding can I ask you how you are feeling, can I ask William and Harry how they are feeling"... And then immediately following their replies shows the Prince saying "These bloody people. I can't bear that man. I mean he's so awful, he really is." The viewer is left in no doubt as to who Charles is referring to.
And later in a "2-Way" with the studio Mr Witchell starts by saying "I AM that awful man it seems."
Click on the BBC News Website; http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4396515.stm
And then click "BBC reporter Nicholas Witchell reacts to the prince's remarks". For a video of the journalist responding.
No attempt whatsoever is made to disguise the fact that the comments were about him! In fact quite the reverse.
It's a great story.. Charles is clearly a buffoon, if after all that has happened in his life, he STILL doesn't know how to deal with the media.
Dear Headtime, I looked at the video you provided the link for and it was most certainly not what was shown on the BBC's News at One or News at Six...unless my attention wandered on both occasions. I saw no 2-way with the studio. (I am getting on, you know! Oh, and sometimes I drift away to watch 'The Simpsons' after hearing the 6 PM headlines.) Perhaps it was on News at Ten?
Witchell is known among media folk as the Poison Carrot, so they, Prince Charles and I are all in complete agreement.
In defence of witchell...i thought he asked a perfectly innocent question, in which charles acted like a complete child in response, witchell is one of a few journos who are so royalist its untrue..i would have had a lot more sympathy for him if his comments was aimed at the media in general, but it was the same old story when under pressure blame auntie beeb, rather than the mass ranks of murdock and rothermere, the beeb have always been the whipping boy.
And In fairness to myself, I still maintain that those BBC reports were not, in anway, trying to disguise the fact the Charles's comments were clearly about Lord Witchell!
And whilst I see that Witchell can appear pompous and arrogant, he does actually maintain a healthy level of objectiveness and cynicism about the Royal family, and never produces any of those fawning pieces that Jenny Bond was so fond of.
Incidentally, he is now known, by some in BBC News, as the Ginger Weed. Named after his recent reports on the "Jangaweed" militia in Sudan.
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