On Jul 17, 12:38 pm, Jerry Kraus wrote:
> On Jul 17, 7:41 am, "I wish I knew how to quit you, Papi!"
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> >http://defamer.com/hollywood/royal-audits/bbc-sentenced-to-identifyin...
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> > BBC SENTENCED TO IDENTIFYING AND CORRECTING EVERY LIE IN HISTORY BY
> > DECREE OF AN ANGRY QUEEN
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> > The fallout continues from last week's royal debacle, in which the BBC
> > was forced to publicly apologize to The Scariest Lady on the Planet,
> > aka Queen Elizabeth II, for having rearranged footage to make it seem
> > as though she had stormed out of a photo session with Annie Leibovitz.
> > A Year with the Queen producers RDF Media e-mailed the
> > director-general of the BBC, accepting full responsibility for what
> > they refer to as "a serious error of judgment." Somehow, not even the
> > divvying of blame among sub-production entities has done much to
> > lessen the Queen's wrath, as The WOW Report's Fenton Bailey reprints
> > an e-mail he received from a BBC contact:
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> > Dear Fenton
> > As a result of the BBC/RDF Queen misrepresentation, myself and a
> > number of other Execs are having to contact all our suppliers over the
> > past 3 years to review our output. To sum up, this is to see if they
> > may have in any way misled the viewer with anything that has been
> > broadcast by the BBC.
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> > If you feel there is anything you wish to discuss, please feel free to
> > call me. It will not in any way be held against you, but we've been
> > asked to make these calls to everyone, just to be on the safe side.
> > Sorry for having to send this out, and please do not take it any way
> > personally.
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> > Let that be a lesson to anyone else who might be harboring similar
> > plans to use an Avid bay to paint a caricature of an ill-tempered and
> > humorless Queen of England: Not only will you have to repeatedly and
> > publicly apologize for the trickery, but the gesture will so incense
> > Her Majesty, she'll order a massive audit of every hour of TV
> > broadcast by your network for the past three years, in order to assure
> > that similar factual discrepancies might not have also deceived a
> > gullible public.
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> Her influence outside of England is pretty limited.- Hide quoted text -
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Except, of course, for the 16 other countries of which she is Head of
State.
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