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RE: Good Morning Britain - JACKLUFC1998 - 05-01-2024

Such sad news. Thoughts with Kate and her family at this time

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RE: Good Morning Britain - harshy - 05-01-2024

Yeah sad news sorry to hear :-(

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RE: Good Morning Britain - Rolling News - 05-01-2024

I knew the News was coming but still a shock and sad for Kate, as well as friends family and colleagues.

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RE: Good Morning Britain - Roger Darthwell - 05-01-2024

This is so terribly sad, I want to send my condolences to Kate Garraway and also to their two children Darcey and Billy

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RE: Good Morning Britain - Andrew - 05-01-2024

I thought the obituary for Derek as shown on the BBC News at One was unnecessarily negative

They dragged up load of negative stuff about his time as a political advisor, mentioning how he’d been sacked from a role, and embroiled in a scandal. It was done by the politics department as if he was a marmite political figure. Most people up to that point would only know him as Kate Garraway’s husband.

Many people on X seem to agree

https://x.com/alexmumof2/status/1743260176579215770?s=61&t=XONrYq4Aosg6Oit17jYYEw 

https://x.com/aldnpigeon/status/1743264401333846290?s=61&t=XONrYq4Aosg6Oit17jYYEw 

https://x.com/cumston_gary/status/1743259602110628275?s=61&t=XONrYq4Aosg6Oit17jYYEw 

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RE: Good Morning Britain - Brekkie - 05-01-2024

On the other hand most the tributes today have been to Kate rather than to him, something I suspect the BBC wanted to avoid - and then if you go down that route you see his other main venture into public life other than being Mr Kate Garraway did not end well at all - though full respect to him for retraining as something completely different and making a new career for himself.

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RE: Good Morning Britain - Nobby - 05-01-2024

(05-01-2024, 07:45 PM)Andrew Wrote:  Most people up to that point would only know him as Kate Garraway’s husband.

The job of the news is to tell you things you don't already know. They were right to give further background information.

Imagine if the genders were reversed. Imagine the outcry if a female with a career and life of her own died and they just referred to her as Prince Phillip's wife.

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RE: Good Morning Britain - Andrew - 05-01-2024

The similar tribute on ITV News had a positive tribute from Tony Blair and Alastair Campbell and vaguely mentioned how his political career didn’t end well. They didn’t go into it in great detail.

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RE: Good Morning Britain - Reith85 - 05-01-2024

(05-01-2024, 07:45 PM)Andrew Wrote:  I thought the obituary for Derek as shown on the BBC News at One was unnecessarily negative

They dragged up load of negative stuff about his time as a political advisor, mentioning how he’d been sacked from a role, and embroiled in a scandal. It was done by the politics department as if he was a marmite political figure. Most people up to that point would only know him as Kate Garraway’s husband.

Many people on X seem to agree

https://x.com/alexmumof2/status/1743260176579215770?s=61&t=XONrYq4Aosg6Oit17jYYEw 

https://x.com/aldnpigeon/status/1743264401333846290?s=61&t=XONrYq4Aosg6Oit17jYYEw 

https://x.com/cumston_gary/status/1743259602110628275?s=61&t=XONrYq4Aosg6Oit17jYYEw 

I'm not sure if I agree with this. To the itv audience, yes, Derek Draper is husband of Kate Garraway and not known for much else, which pretty much defined most of the on-air tributes on itv today (and no doubt, we'll get more of these all next week on Good Morning Britain).

However, it's clear that the BBC report was paying tribute to Derek Draper, not only as husband of Kate Garraway, but also as a one-time political adviser who had a role in setting up New Labour. As an obituary piece, I didn't see anything wrong with it: it served its purpose as an obituary, outlining his life and career. It's no different to the detailed obituaries to Draper that will feature in tomorrow's broadsheet newspapers. The alternative would have been to have just limited it to "Kate Garraway's husband, Derek Draper, has passed away" and airbrush out his political career with hardly any detail about it. I guarantee that critics of the BBC would equally have criticised such an approach, because they didn't show appreciation of Draper's full life and career.

It's not as if Helen Catt's report was austere and factual, either: it was book-ended by clips from 'Caring for Derek', and it ended on a warm note about Derek and his family showing strength throughout his battle.

It would have been different if the BBC report was cold and implying "Don't mourn for this man, he had an awful past", but it didn't - it was simply stating some of the defining aspects of Draper's career. Still, no doubt the BBC-bashing press will be running articles about 'disrespectful BBC' in tomorrow's papers, much to the appeasement of those outraged on X.

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RE: Good Morning Britain - mark - 05-01-2024

Very sad news. The ITV News online story gets into the negative points from his political past fairly quickly, which feels quite distasteful and disrespectful to Kate and the rest of his loved ones.

https://www.itv.com/news/2024-01-05/kate-garraways-husband-derek-draper-has-died-aged-56 

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