Ofcom to launch BBC Brand inquiry
(from BBC News)
This story's been dominating the news today, for no good reason really. ITV are taking extra delight in lambasting the BBC -- as they always do -- especially on their always-dreadful sensationalist news programmes (God Alastair Stewart's dreadful, isn't he?) Interestingly, a lot of the focus -- from ITV's perspective -- seems to fall on Jonathan Ross, even though it seems it was Russell Brand who did most of it. What's the betting ITV are just trying to force Wossy out of the BBC so they can sign him themselves?
I also hold no stock by the thousands of complaints made, most of them after the story became big news. None of these people listened to the show originally; none of them are its intended audience. If it hadn't been picked up by the media in this way they would never have known, they would never have cared, they would never have complained. Really, what right do they have to do it now? If Brand were fired, he would be replaced by someone targeted at a similar audience demographic... and all these people who forced his removal wouldn't listen to the new guy and still wouldn't care.
Incidentally, I sincerely hope Andrew Sachs -- clearly the wronged party, and deserving of an apology -- is in no way involved in all this fuss, and that it's a lot of people being misguidedly incensed on his behalf. Should he wind up backing the complainers, suing Brand/Ross, or generally overreacting in any other way, he'll quickly lose my sympathy.
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