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To be honest, I'm surprised they showed it tonight at all. On the night JFK was assassinated, the satire show That Was The Week That Was ended up running a tribute show to him. When even the satirical website NewsBiscuit decided to publish a sombre Mandela obituary rather than the usual spoof...

It's the old Che Guevara principle. Plenty of people wear T-shirts adorning his image, how many actually know who he was? And more to the point, does it really matter?

I wonder if on the day of JFK's assassination, there were complaints that the BBC did not devote enough air time to news of the deaths of Aldous Huxley and C.S. Lewis on the same day. Regardless of Nelson Mandela's death, it would be naïve to expect the reporting of it not to dominate...