Photo (above): Top Gear studio audience car park, also moped certification test area amongst other things.
What drives me completely mad is that it appears to be open season on Jeremy Clarkson. Sure, he’s somebody that’s courted some controversy with some of his comments over the years, but he hasn’t committed any atrocities. We live in a free and open society, and until he commits treason, Clarkson isn’t the most evil man on TV as some of the media is making him out to be.
When I watched the Top Gear Burma special, the “slope” comment went completely over my head. If anything, it referred to the rickety-ness (should I use the word rickety in case it offends people? I was considering slant, but again, it’s probably an offensive racist word to some) of the bridge (bloody hell, that’s a racist term – I deserve a good flogging).
It takes many people to make a TV programme. Many. And from watching Top Gear being filmed from my office, I can assure you that there are a lot of people involved in getting this programme to the screen.
If there were ANY racist overtones in the material, this would have been picked up somewhere along the line and dealt with accordingly. But apparently this went over the heads of everybody listed in the end credits, everybody involved in the programme not listed in the credits, and a lot of other people at the BBC before the programme went to broadcast.
Yet, it’s apparently racist.
Now that Ofcom has incredulously declared that Top Gear Burma Special has breached broadcasting guidelines, the press are having a field day with it.
The Times tablet edition reports on the Ofcom ruling and states in great detail about the incident concerned. In case anybody actually missed the “offending” piece, The Times has THOUGHTFULLY REPRODUCED THE ENTIRE FILMED SEQUENCE for you to enjoy over and over again so that you can become outraged all over again, or if you haven’t seen it yet, just outraged.
Of course, I’m going to be a hypocrite now and show you what I mean (but I don’t reproduce the video, which is what I’m getting at):
Media hypocrisy.
They delight in reproducing everything that made the so-called offence offensive. I can name many news organisations that would do exactly the same thing. They delight in reproducing the offense. They want you to remember it. Forever.
There are days I think the world has gone mad. Ofcom should be ashamed of themselves for pandering to stupid people.
