Telly critic Ian Hyland’s joke was taken to a whole new level by people who didn’t get it
Here’s TV critic Ian Hyland sharing his outrage on Twitter about BBC News’s Huw Edwards and his shockingly biased take on Wales’ Grand Slam win in the Six Nations.
Huw Edwards on the BBC’s 10 o’clock news openly celebrating the Welsh rugby team winning the Grand Slam.
Disgraceful bias on a supposedly neutral news programme.
This is not what I pay my licence fee for.— Ian Hyland (@HylandIan) March 18, 2019
Except the tweet took on a whole new dimension because of a whole bunch of people who just didn’t get it.
People like these, for instance.
Why can’t a welsh man be proud I pay my tv license too!
— Simon Allsopp (@simonallsopp99) March 18, 2019
I pay mu licence fee too and thought it was brilliant – do you think your payment is more important than mine! ? Get over yourself
— Stewart J Davies (@ammanno05) March 19, 2019
Constant references to the 1966 football World Cup by English sports commentators every big tournament…just saying
— Ann Kellacher (@annk7) March 18, 2019
I don’t pay my tv license for the English to belittle Wales at every given opportunity. This is why I cancelled my license and quit watching that Anglicised Britnat horseshit. Maybe you should do too.
— George Atkinson (@GeorgeA76776615) March 19, 2019
You should have listened to @bbc5live yesterday morning, it was all the magnificent game between Eng vs Scot which was a dead rubber by the way, hardly mentioned Wales grand slam.
Suck it up princess.— Martyn Lewis (@jabber_taff) March 19, 2019
Welcome 2 payback!! @SkySportsNews supposed to be a British channel but only covers @EnglandRugby in depth at every tournament?
— Alan Gitsham (@alan_gitsham) March 19, 2019
To which Ian responded …
Should it offend or dismay me that so many people couldn’t tell I was joking? https://t.co/xGUf4alAgl
— Ian Hyland (@HylandIan) March 19, 2019
Unsurprisingly you managed to hook the Wales Online rugby correspondent
— Andrew Collon (@andyc_128) March 19, 2019
Surely the licence fee bit was an absolute klaxon.
— Ian Hyland (@HylandIan) March 19, 2019
Dismay! Definitely dismay; certainly when reading some of the vitriol that headed your way as a result.
— Emma Aitken (@emmaaitkenF1) March 19, 2019
Duck’s back.
— Ian Hyland (@HylandIan) March 19, 2019
