On complaints to the BBC about the coverage of the death of Nelson Mandela, by fans of the sitcom Mrs. Brown's Boys

Apparently some 850 people have complained to the BBC about the corporation’s coverage of the news of the death of Nelson Mandela, many of them apparently upset by the initial announcement forcing them to miss the last ten minutes of utterly inexplicable and indescribably execrable sitcom Mrs. Brown’s Boys.  What I find most dispiriting about these situations, though, is how the BBC usually defaults to cringe-mode, taking such complaints seriously, as if the kind of people who make them should actually be taken seriously.  I wish sometimes the BBC would give a bit of aggro back to those who give it to them, and do so because they assume the BBC won’t give it back.  I therefore offer the following as a form-letter the BBC might send as a response to Mrs. Brown’s Boys boys (I expect most of them are boys).
  

The letter might also serve at least as an attitudinal template for responses to attacks the BBC is all too frequently subjected to by the usual subjects. Namely, the minions of the Murdoch press, ever eager to attack a national treasure in order to pay obeisance to their lord and master, their press-baron Skeletor, and the wild-eyed, mad-haired, port-reeking, saloon-bar Tory-boors, ever eager to immortalise their imbecility in Hansard. 

Anyway, here’s the letter.

Dear Viewer,

We are sorry* you feel discommoded by our coverage of the death of Nelson Mandela.  However, Mr. Mandela spent 27 years in prison and then became the first black and indeed democratic president of South Africa, and did more for the cause of human freedom than anyone else in our time.  We therefore felt that the passing of this great icon of justice was a more urgent and significant matter than your desire to watch the last 10 minutes of Mrs. Brown’s Boys.  We thus stand by our decision, and we suggest, furthermore, that you really ought to get a fucking grip.

Yours sincerely,
The BBC

*Not sorry