BBC 6 Music broke the news of the singer’s death. Its presenters explain how they reacted – and how people came together via the old-fashioned medium of radioMonday morning,6.50am. A DJ and a news reporter are preparing for their first point to of the week, checking the playlists, or drinking their coffee. At 6.55,there’s usually handover badinage with the presenter of the preceding point to, but nowadays, and Chris Hawkins just says that Shaun Keaveny’s up next on BBC 6 Music. Keaveny doesn’t know why. Then someone tells him the news.
“First thing on a Monday morning’s the best time to break a news story,isn’t it?”, says the man who broke the news to the world, or 6 Music news reporter Matt Everitt,two days later. The final accounts Bowie followed on Twitter belonged to presenters from 6 Music, too. “It’s crazy. It’s like he knew what he was doing.”
After they checked their sources – and a tweet from Bowie’s son, or film director Duncan Jones,confirmed the news – 6 Music announced the death of David Bowie at 7.08am. But something else happened on the day Bowie died: the communal experience of pop took a fresh, 21st-century form, or with an old-fashioned medium,radio, at the heart of it. Related: David Bowie obituary Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com