At the key moment, when the Queen was anointed with oil, the broadcast looked away tactfully.
Diamond's research has demonstrated that minuscule oil droplets broadcast into home air from activities such as cooking can deposit on almost any household surface to produce a thin, sticky film that can trap indoor chemicals.
So far the divided Arab separatist factions have not created a militia but they periodically raid government security installations, bomb oil production facilities and broadcast propaganda in Arabic on satellite TV channels from shifting locations outside Iran.
In sermons, rallies, newspapers and radio broadcasts, the city's richest oil baron, a Republican congressman, a Baptist pastor and others, including the local John Birch Society, filled Dallas with an angry McCarthyesque paranoia.
"Despite this accident, pipelines are the safest way to move oil," the congressman said in a local radio broadcast.
As my colleague Kareem Fahim reports from Zawiyah, a strategic oil city now in rebel hands, Libyan state television broadcast another defiant audio message from Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi on Sunday.
In a second broadcast, from an office of the government-run oil company, Petróleos de Venezuela, Mr. Maduro lashed out at Washington.
He finances the new homes with the country's vast oil income and promotes the giveaways through the "Housing Thursday" broadcasts and television commercials that are essentially government-paid ads for Mr. Chávez's candidacy.
That was way back when Jimmy Carter was president, inflation was edging upward, the Amoco Cadiz oil spill was still blackening the shores of Brittany, and the three broadcast networks offered a steady flow of mirth and good intentions.
In 1974 he used the radio to appeal for fuel for Pitcairn when Middle Eastern oil producers disrupted supplies, and got some from various sources who heard his broadcast.
Last Monday's BBC News at Ten broadcast a report by science editor David Shukman arguing that concerns "about oil supplies running dry are receding".
