Seriously. All the controversy and fuss caused over tiny, insignificant things is going crazy.
Jonathan Ross and Russel Brand, two of the UK’s best comics have been wrongly stripped of their jobs. I could write pages on exactly why they have been wronged, but I’ll put it to you this way. The day after the broadcast, 8 complaints were registered, by the end of the week, 19 complaints, two weeks after that, around 30,000 people thought it necessary to vent their anger.
A major part and contributor of this is my arch nemesis – the media. Those bastards that decide what should be popular, who should be famous, and what constitutes as news. Case in point, some papers like the Sun, accept that maybe people don’t buy their paper for cutting edge reporting or highly reputable doumentation, because no offense (irony intended) men buy it for the breasts on page 3, women buy it because it will have reports on the latest crack whore to sell their sympothy story. The Daily Mail tells us of a new reason to slit our wrists every day, and most of the others are biased in some way.
My point is that the media do not actually report news. They tell us what to think and put their own spin on news stories. An excellent quote from a Harry Potter book (can’t remember which) is “the media exists to sell itself, not to report”
Getting back to the whole Ross/Brand/Sachs situation. Because some stuck-up, hypocritical daily mail readers didn’t like comedy coming from two under 60 year olds, close to 8 million listeners have to miss out. If you think about 30,000 complaints out of 8 million – it’s nothing at all.
I’m on the subject of hypocritical whingers, Muslims have been quiet recently, but lets not forget the list of things which have upset them – A kids teddy bear, a danish cartoon, a football, Avril Lavigne, a puppy, Apple. I could go on but thats enough for now.
*Edit – no its not, full list here and discussion here.
If anyone watched ‘Live at the Apollo’ last night on BBC1, fronted by the ‘family-friendly’ Michael McIntyre, you would have noticed that he swore twice, which is twice as much as Jonathon Ross swore on Radio 2 a few weeks ago.
I don’t like a lot of things on the TV and radio. I don’t like for example, Time Team, Terry Wogan, anything with the word ‘celeb’ imbedded in it, but I don’t complain and have a furious meltdown, venting my spleen to anyone who will, or won’t, listen.
My point is that if you don’t like something, don’t watch/listen to it!! Why should I, and millions of other listeners, miss out on the massively talented Ross and Brand shows just because SOME people (a vast minority) don’t like it?
