Good bit of No thanks Choss, aka lèse-majesté:
Channel 4 News has turned down an interview with the Prince of Wales after refusing to sign a “draconian” contract with a string of demands including the pre-vetting of all questions and right to control editing.
They don’t half think well of themselves, do they, the royals.
The extremely tight level of control and censorship has not stopped some outlets from broadcasting interviews: Sky News ran an interview late last month covering topics including global warming.
Why talk to Choss about global warming though? There are thousands of people who know more about it, so why talk to the son of the daughter of the son of the yadda yadda yadda just because he’s famous and rich?
Channel 4 News felt that it could not conduct an interview under such terms, which included a 15-page contract full of limitations and restrictions. It cancelled an interview with Prince Charles that was due to be conducted by Jon Snow on Sunday at the British ambassador’s residence in Paris, on the eve of the Paris climate change talks.
Silly idea anyway. He’s just a royal. He can use his position to draw attention to the problem, that’s sensible enough, but the detail work should be by people who really know something.
The contractual stipulations surrounding Prince Charles were first made public by the Independent, which cited clauses in the contract such as: if the interviewer goes off script, Clarence House staff present have the right to “intervene and halt filming”.
Diddums is so fragile he has to have staff present?
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12 responses to “Priss nixes chat”
Off topic: I bet that Channel 4 interviewer is really sick of people telling him “you know nothing, Jon Snow”
Although I have no time for the monarchy and their lickspittles, give Prince Chuck his due – he has been promoting and supporting environmental issues for most of his life.
This is the Man Who, after all.
Provided he survives long enough.
Ah, good old Chuckles.
Remember he’s going to be KING for about 5 years when his mum pops her clogs, and then no-one will be getting interviews at all.
I think after all the utter madness with the media when Diana was alive he’s super scared of how he can be edited and presented, so now he’s really careful. I hate that I am making excuses for him.
Well, er,…, yes. Charles has form. He is renowned for his foot-in-mouth syndrome. If he was as good a steeplechase jockey as he is a current affairs commentator, the bets would be on him coming off at the first hurdle, and the bookies would be giving very short odds on him. Like, if he puts his foot in it, you get your bet back.
(Actually, I have been assured by people in the know that he is an accomlished polo player. No doubt there are plenty of places for him to practice in the 50,000 acres (20,000 hectares) of the Royal Balmoral Estate.)
I do not look forward to the day his face graces our currency. Ugh. Most Canadian bills now have Canadians on them, but Elizabeth II is still on our twenty, and graces the “heads” side on all our coinage. She’s been on the throne for so long that we’re on our fourth version of her effigy, each one a little older than the last. Charles, (should he even make it to the throne, and we still put royals on our moolah) will be lucky if he gets more than one.
I actually remember seeing his investiture as Prince of Wales on TV, back in 1969, though I can’t remember what 7-year-old me thought of it at the time.
I wouldn’t mind the coinage staying as is, but there are always going to be new mintings with new designs. Oh well.
You’ve got to feel a bit sorry for Charles, though. I mean, back in the day, if any commoner got cheeky with him, he could’ve had him carted off to the nearest dungeon, or just immediately hanged and drawn. These days, he can barely control what the tabloids say about him.
Being royal just ain’t what it used to be.
And yet hardly a whisper about his brother, who is plainly a nonce and trying to escape justice.
Oh, right, Andy.
Haven’t they made him disappear yet?
Prince Andrew’s lawyers acknowledge he has been formally served with a subpoena regarding the Epstein rape case.
https://www.newsweek.com/prince-andrew-served-jeffrey-epstein-rape-case-virginia-giuffre-david-boies-1631410
And those same lawyers are trying to weasel out of it on a technicality.