THE EVER-PRESENT MOBILE PHONE
The clerk of court was quite clear:-“Please make sure all mobile phones are switched off.” (if any of these phones had rung then it is possible that the owner could have been charged with the offence of contempt of court…..)
So why did the BBC representatives (and one has to assume that they were fairly senior personnel) think that this did not apply to them?
All clutched the Blackberries, IPhones and mobile phones which are now such a part of our lives……and all were frantically answering and sending emails and texts instead of living in the moment, for it was an historic moment!
In the pacey world of broadcasting then, it seems to be hard to ‘switch off’!
