The whole world is focused on the death of the Queen of Great Britain and the funeral events which will carry on through next Monday when she will finally be interred in the section reserved for royalty.
Something small: last Tuesday, the queen still met with the new British head of state and two days later, she died suddenly, apparently on Wednesday night. On Thursday morning she was no longer alive but an official announcement was not yet publicized. All signs pointed to her death but the media did not report it, as the protocol is that all the members of the royal family gather around her deathbed to receive that official statement. The next step was to inform the high ranking government officials and only on Thursday afternoon was the public notified of the queen's demise.
It was very clear to the British public that if a major figure like the queen passes away, the first to be informed were the close family members — and up till then, the media had to remain silent.
Something can be learned from the British in the form of "Wisdom among the nations? Believe it." The British media — not even the most 'yellow journals' — would never have presumed to publicize the queen's death in a live broadcast from the palace. Every death, even of a well-known high ranking figure, is first and foremost a family issue and only afterwards is the general public made privy of it.
Broadcasting the process of death on a live venue, as is done by several Israeli news media who call themselves 'chareidi' who boast of doing that very thing whenever a revered godol is on his deathbed. This is disgraceful and appalling, even if there does exist a demand from the lowly voyeur consumer public which descends to that despicable shallow level.
