09-09-2022, 10:00 PM
(09-09-2022, 08:37 PM)eyeTV Wrote: Didn't they all get the news from the Royal Family twitter which went out at 18:30?
Or was it just embargoed until then? There felt to be a complete lack of preparedness on the part of some broadcasters.
There was almost certainly an embargo of some sort; we have been told that the PM knew at 16:30, and a two-hour embargo is comparable to the length held for Diana (although that may not actually be a good comparison at all, because that embargo was likely in order to wake the family given the overnight timing so that they heard before the public, and this one was almost certainly to buy time for protocol wheels to get in motion).
There is a notification-type ringing sound audible in the background of the rolling coverage around 15:00 (1:24:31 in the afternoon BBC News Special), followed about a minute later by whispering of some kind. Possible that is when the BBC are informed; this is backed up by the deleted Yalda Hakim tweet being shortly after (15:07), but not by Truss apparently learning at 16:30, because the first act of Operation London Bridge was meant to be the PM being informed?
Very confusing. As Phil says, consistent with the Truss timing is Myrie's brief spell in relief.