THE News Letter and BBCNI have joined forces to rain on the Kneecap parade after the West Belfast rappers’ debut film scooped the Outstanding Debut Bafta for director Rich Peppiatt.
In an extraordinary awards season media first, the unionist morning daily and the local broadcaster both headlined on their websites and on social media the movie’s ‘failure’ in coverage that provoked a mixture of scorn, disbelief and hilarity.
BBCNI was first out of the blocks on Sunday night with an online story headlined ‘Kneecap wins first Bafta but misses out on five categories’. That Ormeau Avenue headline was the only one across the BBC’s Bafta coverage that highlighted…