Howard: Stop the nonstop coverage- Now

April 12, 2021, 7:48 am , by Newsroom

Our special editor Sir Howard Elston rips into unending reportage of the biggest story to hit Britain since the last big story to hit Britain…

I am writing this (writes Sir Howard) as I peruse the gamut of media which has not stopped banging on incessantly about a story that really needs a rest.

Yes, it is about famous people. Yes, it is urgent. Yes, it is of great public interest, and, yes, the main players underpin the very fabric of our nation. But they and their whole family need a break after a weekend of total coverage.

So I say to the press: let Richard and Jane Lutz live in peace as they move house from Birmingham to their seaside compound on the Shropshire coast. There have been 72 straight hours of stories about the move; archive of their lives and loves; commentaries in the role they played in the history of this sceptered isle; interviews with neighbours, former schoolmates and dead pets; and, even live drone cover as the removal vans headed north on the M6 motorway.

I plead: stop it now. Especially you BBC, the media giant funded by the taxpayer which provided blanket reportage on all 54 of its channels including inserts into vital shows like Match of the Day, yet another baking series and that one with the lovely models and musclehead gym rats living on a tropical island with no internet.

I rest my case.

Are you keen in learning more of about this gripping story? Log on to Howard/the move.co.uk, #lutzmovelive, otherbigmoves@howard.com, constant chatty analysis by James Corden, Lord Elston’s YouTube funniest clip contributions of The Ten Whackiest Moves Ever and, of course, the award winning Netflix series Ya Gotta Move with music by James Brown and Taylor Swift.