I stopped watching mostly, but my brother still watches both so I see some sometimes
but not enough to say really. I watched the Queen’s procession to Westminster Abbey and the state funeral on cnn because they had the best audio and perhaps visuals. I have found others on youtube that were good which did not have the often annoying announcing.
When I started watching it they started the procession with the most beautiful bagpipe music and drums, and then all of a sudden they started talking in the middle of it- it was so annoying for them to spoil that. However the version I found on YouTube, I don’t remember that commentary, it had Anderson Cooper, and Christiane Amanpour and 2 other women, I forgot their names now, CA gave very good commentary.
Something she said stuck out to me, that the Queen knew she had to be seen to be believed by the people… during her reign of 70 years and now also at her funeral. It made me think… we need for justice to be “seen to be done” here. More on that but, I need to think about it.
I actually watched fox for a while too, for like 2 minutes, lol, until they started talking about how even though the Queen didn't want a long state service she was still a very religious woman and then started talking about possible terrorism… ugh, 101 on about how to ruin a ceremony with idiotic commentary. That was before this procession started.
Overall the little I have seen seems still swinging right and a bit weird. We are mostly watching msnbc now. I am not usually a big news watcher but my family has been. I guess I take after my mother more that way.
Everything is so crazy now I am ready to toss it all. My brain and emotions are overloaded and I feel like I’m being harassed when I watch news, they always seem to be so aggressive and screeching. I have always hated that, so I often watch with the sound off. How many times can you watch the same crap over and over with nothing really changing?