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31-10-2008, 15:41
Jojo

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I do wonder though - if this happened to you or me - us "normal" members of the public, would this kind of treatment/outcry etc be happening - I think not.

It wouldnt have, we probably wouldnt even heard about it

The only reason we heard about this is because they played it over the radio.....

But it wasn't just because of that though. It was because the media found out about it, then publicised it more, then you had people posting on youtube (and i've seen and heard far worse things on youtube I have to say) and then apart from the 2 people that listened to the actual show and complained, those that heard about it on the news then decided to complain - two weeks after the show was broadcast.
31-10-2008, 15:42
Abbie

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I do wonder though - if this happened to you or me - us "normal" members of the public, would this kind of treatment/outcry etc be happening - I think not.

It wouldnt have, we probably wouldnt even heard about it

The only reason we heard about this is because they played it over the radio.....

Yeah but even if t was on the radio and it happened it someone well normal, I still have my doubts whether it would have made big news, its only become bog news cos its happened to someone famous
31-10-2008, 15:45
Trinity

What I mean is they put it into the public domain.

And, yes there is a lot more interest in it but not only because they are 'celebs'.

They are highly paid employees of a publicly funded broadcasting company, i.e. we pay their salary, and to be honest i think that this point is the one that exasperates so many people. We are paying them, and we are paying for the phone bill and we are paying for it to be broadcast.
31-10-2008, 15:46
Trinity

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I do wonder though - if this happened to you or me - us "normal" members of the public, would this kind of treatment/outcry etc be happening - I think not.

It wouldnt have, we probably wouldnt even heard about it

The only reason we heard about this is because they played it over the radio.....

Yeah but even if t was on the radio and it happened it someone well normal, I still have my doubts whether it would have made big news, its only become bog news cos its happened to someone famous

To be honest I don't think that who they did it to is the main issue.

It is who did it.
31-10-2008, 15:48
Jojo

I have to agree with Abbie though I'm afraid.

If it were you or me that had this happen to them, no one would give a toss. They really wouldn't, whether we, the taxpayer, pays their wages or not.

Out of interest - how many people actually listened to the actual broadcast? And out of that many people, 2 complained. How many people here listened to the broadcast on the day? And how many of us, would have known anything about it, had the media not got hold of the story and publicised it.

Its not the point, and I've never said that I've agreed with anything the pair of them did, but the BBC know full well what they are both like. Their listeners know what they are like. The programme was aired without being edited - first problem. And two weeks after it happens, all hell breaks loose, from people who didn't listen to the show in the first place.

And I know that isn't the point, but I think it makes a huge difference that it was Andrew Sachs and his granddaughter involved and not plain old Joe Bloggs.
31-10-2008, 15:53
StarsOfCCTV

In the newspaper today there was a fresh public outcry at a comment on the queen made on mock the week and how television is getting 'obscene'. What made me laugh is the programme was made 21 months ago and its only being bought up now! No one cared at the time...

I know what JR and Brand did was of order but to be honest there's plenty of other shows that insult people, e.g. little britain and there's no public outcry at many of the types of society they've portrayed like that woman who goes around licking people or that person who goes around throwing up on people. I don't like JR because his shows boring and Brand I can give or take but I think they've been singled out where really the person who let it be broadcast it is just as much to blame - surely they listened to the show before letting it go on air?and I agree its been blown way out of proportion. The only difference I can see between this and other shows is they left messages on the answering machine. I bet if they'd just insulted that family on air they wouldn't have got punished as much.
31-10-2008, 15:58
Abbie

I dont agree with that they did but stories like this just go to show that us 'normal' people really arent treated the same as celebs, im sure there have been pranks on people like us before, possibly on the radio or stuff, but we have never heard of them and if it has happened well then it hasnt concerned the media
what makes this so big are a) the people that did it b) the people who it was done too.
I never heard it on the day, I only heard about it the other day when I have in car for ages and on the radio they were talking about all the time in the news slots and asking people text in their thoughts
31-10-2008, 17:53
Perdita

I think what also makes a difference is that this was an actual phone call made, not just standing there and taking the mick. It is different just talking about/mimicking others but even Jeremy Beadle was never this vindictive when he did "You have been framed" or the pranks on Candid Camera, imo.
31-10-2008, 17:54
Layne

I feel like ringing up BBC/the newspapers/media whatever - and ****ing complaining for the complete and utter sham this has all become :rolleyes:
STOP GOING ON ABOUT IT (the news and stuff - i'm not digging at people on here, as i am here commenting!) - and all this about bringing up Mock the Week - Its FUNNY, the whole point of the show is 'mocking the weekly news' ... and if they aren't allowed to do that then surely the show loses its point.

This is like all that political correctness that has gone completly INSANE!

Oh and i'm with Abbie, If they had done this to 'normal' people NO ONE would care - especially not the police - come off it, we live in a celebrity obsessed society :rolleyes:
31-10-2008, 21:09
StarsOfCCTV

Anyone else watching have I got news for you? :lol:

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