The Coronation Will Be Televised
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Image: Queen Elizabeth II walks down the aisle after her coronation. Getty Images. Article by Pessimists Archive. Tedium – September 16, 2022.
How the British public overturned a live television ban on the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II—a monarch who showed a surprising embrace of technology during her long reign.
Today in Tedium: We take for granted a lot in this world—the access to information we have, the access to people we have. Especially if they’re famous. Over the last 20 years or so, any day of the week, you likely had a pretty good idea of what Queen Elizabeth II was doing, because of the closeness in which she was followed by the media. In many ways, the queen and the media were made for one another, […]
