BBC's ad nauseam coverage of Mandela's death  So far the BBC has
had over 2,000 complaints about its completely over the top
coverage of Mandela's death.  He was for a time an important
politician in an unimportant country. However, he was also a
convicted terrorist.  Oh, you may say, that was just under
apartheid.  No, it wasn't. Mandela would have been convicted as
a terrorist under current UK laws and probably got pretty much
the same sentence.  He did well after he was released but
nothing could justify the absurdly excessive coverage of his
death. It was if the BBC has decided to put the rest of the
world on hold [they are probably not doing anything interesting]
and devote all its resources to just one story.  I would  have
expected the BBC to have produced some insightful coverage of
South Africa's current political situation. Instead most of
items were very superficial. The kind of stuff a journalist
might have produced in their hotel room just from reading the
local newspapers and the government brie