The BBC has a knack of treating anything which affects itself or its personalities as being of paramount importance and the death of David Coleman was no exception. Yesterday, the demise of this second rate broadcaster was the top news story, taking up much of successive news programmes and causing all genuine news to be squashed into whatever few seconds remained.
Coleman has been presented as the epitome of broadcasting genius, a man of immense sporting knowledge and understanding when he was, in fact, a man prone to making statements of the bleedin' obvious, regular gaffs, and getting his commentaries so ridiculously wrong that it was painful. One always knew that when Coleman shouted out "And now 'X' is moving into position to make his challenge", 'X' was actually beginning to run out of steam and would soon be overtaken by most of the field. Far from being a man of great understanding, he seemed to know very little and be almost totally unable to read sporting situations.
Coleman loved being associated with major sporting names and was a perpetual name-dropper. His chairmanship of 'A Question of Sport' was awful and his ability to make the most stupid remarks legendary, as was noted on numerous occasions by 'Spitting Image' and 'Private Eye'.
Once again, the BBC has shown how inward looking it is, how much it sees itself and its people as being of the greatest importance. It has no objectivity and, as a news broadcaster, it is now of no use whatsoever. It should be broken up.
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