Same effect…it could be offensive but the context perhaps makes it more acceptable?!
Comedians get away with satire, comedians get away with saying what say a politician couldn’t. Mixing comedy with the sometimes sensitive makes it more .
Andrea Dezco presents the rude, the shocking but in a beautiful, twee way making it less offensive.
juxtaposition…showing the inappropriate in an unexpected way.
Glenn Hoddle apologises for comments made during Sky Sports commentary • Hoddle made remark during Chelsea’s game at Fulham • ‘I can only apologise to those who took offence,’
Article history Glenn Hoddle has apologised for remarks made during the live broadcast of Fulham v Chelsea. Photograph: Tom Jenkins for the Guardian Glenn Hoddle has apologised for comments made live on air while providing commentary for Sky Sports during last night’s Premier League match between Fulham and Chelsea. After Chelsea’s £50m striker, Fernando Torres, miscontrolled a ball played over the top of the Fulham defence Hoddle remarked: “When it’s not going for you, it’s not going for you. It’s come off his chest, his knee and his toe. It’s almost like the Chinese player Knee Shin Toe.” “I can only apologise to those who took offence,” Hoddle said today. “There’s no excuse. It’s an old football expression and I understand I can’t say things like that.” Sky Sports recently parted company with Richard Keys and Andy Gray after a series of off-air recordings were leaked, while Hoddle lost his job as England manager in 1999 for comments he made about disabled people in newspaper interview.
In a politically correct age, they seem like outrageous anachronisms.
And there is no doubt these adverts – many taken from the first half of the last century – reveal just how much women used to be caricatured as downtrodden housewives or hair-brained office girls.
Now, a new book – You Mean A Woman Can Open It?: The Woman’s Place In The Classic Age Of Advertising – brings together images which would surely cause a howl of protest if they were released today.
Tight-trousered Terry’s wardrobe malfunction sparks BBC complaints
By PAUL REVOIR
Last updated at 00:50 16 October 2007
It’s difficult to say who was squirming the most – Terry Wogan or the TV viewers.
The BBC veteran presented Sunday’s Points of View in a pair of moleskin trousers which clung relentlessly to a certain area and left little to the imagination.
The corporation has received a flurry of complaints about 69-year-old Sir Terry’s wardrobe malfunction.
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My notes from the crit and what seems to be our strongest outcomes….
I suppose it is about what is now social acceptable within our community and the political (sometimes invisible) boundaries that we are set as a community. what we are and are not allowed to do or say… just as the BBC have complaints about what they show as it can offend some people. The audience decides what is the meaning behind what is said rather than what is actually intended. Could we use this idea of letting the audiences reaction determine the meaning? Just as Sally Mann the photographer who we were talking about.
I just watched an episode of ‘have i got news for you’ and the comment on the disabled wheelchair jumping, saying ‘the ramp for the disabled access might need adjusting’ . Throughout are comments o=that some people may deem offensive but the programmes intentions and background sort of allows it. As you can see from top gears defence to the mexican stereotype. Could we looks at things said tongue in cheek. Comments that are intended to cause a reaction but should not be taken at face value.
Satire: literary technique of writing or art which principally ridicules its subject often as an intended means of provoking a reaction
I suppose the british are stereotypical uptight about subjects and quite reserved as a community so could we look into this and how this might deem what people find offensive etc. That bbc complaints programme with Terry Wogan might be relevant.
What do you all reckon?
Some are ways people get offended, what people think shouldn’t be shown? The bbcs response is very interesting also. It reflects on subjects which people may think are taboo and shouldn’t be shown, some political, some cultural. They could be of some relevance, they teach us exactly what our society accepts and doesn’t accept and how much the bbc can get away with?
CBeebies Rastamouse
Publication date: 16 February 2011
Complaint
We have received complaints that the use of non-standard English grammar in the programme sets a bad example to young children.
The BBC’s Response
CBeebies is very proud to be transmitting Rastamouse which is a colourful new animation series about a crime-fighting mouse based on an acclaimed series of books by Michael De Souza and Genevieve Webster. The Rastamouse books are written in Afro-Caribbean Patois rhyme and this authentic voice has been transferred to the TV series to retain its heart, integrity and distinctive quality.
CBeebies is dedicated to reflecting the lives of all children in this country and Rastamouse will have a particular appeal to Afro-Caribbean children – an under-represented part of our audience. However, the series is highly enjoyable and inclusive and its compelling stories, great music and positive messages are there to be enjoyed by all our viewers.
Top Gear, comments about Mexicans, BBC Two
Publication date: 7 February 2011
Complaint
We received complaints from some viewers who were unhappy with comments made about Mexicans in the programme on 30 January 2011.
The BBC’s response
The producers of Top Gear have apologised to the Mexican Ambassador for the comments made about him during the show. Whilst the majority of the piece on the Mastretta had been discussed in advance with BBC Editorial Policy staff, the comments about him were ad libbed by the presenters during the recording. The BBC’s Editorial Guidelines are very clear about singling out individuals for irreverent/mocking/ comments. Those guidelines were not adhered to and the Top Gear production team has apologised for this. The comments about the Ambassador have been removed from all repeats of the programme.
With regard to the other comments made about Mexicans, these were indeed playing off a stereotype, and that practice is something that regular viewers of Top Gear will be familiar with, as the presenters often make jokes about the perceived characteristics of various nationalities when talking about the cars made in those countries. It is something that has been done in the past with the French, the Germans, the Americans and the Italians, so Mexico was not singled out for special treatment in this case.
Comments made by the Top Gear presenters are clearly exaggerated for comic effect – to imply that a sports car is no good because it will spend all day asleep is self evidently absurd, and not meant to be taken as vindictive. The Top Gear audience understands this clearly and treats these remarks accordingly.
The UK prides itself on being a tolerant nation, but one of the contributing factors towards that tolerance is the fact that jokes made around national stereotyping are commonplace, and are indeed a robust part of our national humour. Typically the most comedic ones are negative – for example our own comedians make material out of the fact that the British are supposed to be terrible cooks, terrible romantics, and forever happy to come second. In fact, some of the more humorous complaints we have received from Mexico are based on stereotypical retorts, with one excellent one in particular referring to the presenters as effete tea drinkers.
In line with that British tradition, stereotype-based comedy is allowed within BBC guidelines, in programmes where the audience has clear expectations of that being the case, as it indeed is with Top Gear. Of course it may appear offensive to those who have not watched the programme or who are unfamiliar with its humour.
It was not the intention of the programme to offend Mexicans but rather to use a clearly unbelievable stereotype of Mexicans to humorous effect.
the bit about the bbc allowing stereotype-based comedy is quite interesting? could we look at stereotypes which nowadays people are very sensitive about, often unessacarily?
more on the top gear mexican comments….
Top Gear faces racism test case following Mexico comments
A Mexican woman has accused the BBC programme Top Gear of racism and instructed lawyers to bring a test case against the show after remarks made by the presenters characterised Mexicans as lazy and oafish.
Lawyers for Iris de la Torre, a 30 year-old jewellery design student, said the BBC had used racism to boost ratings and could cost the Corporation up to £1million in damages.
In the episode, which was viewed by more than 6 million people, Richard Hammond claimed that cars imitate national characteristics.
“Mexican cars are just going to be a lazy, feckless, flatulent, oaf with a moustache leaning against a fence asleep looking at a cactus with a blanket with a hole in the middle on as a coat,” he said.
Jeremy Clarkson went on to joke that being Mexican would be “brilliant” because then he could sleep all day.
The Mexican ambassador to Britain has already made an official complaint to the BBC for the programme’s “xenophobic” and “offensive” content and demanded an apology.
EastEnders, comments made by Connor Stanley, 13 December, BBC One
Publication date: 15 December 2010
Complaint
We’ve received some complaints from viewers who were unhappy with a comment that was made by the character Connor Stanley on EastEnders on 13th December
The BBC’s response
Some viewers were offended by comments made in the episode of EastEnders which transmitted on 13th December.
During a scene in this episode, Whitney is shown working on her stall when Connor comes up behind her and puts his hands over her eyes. Whitney naturally assumes it’s her boyfriend, Peter, for whom her feelings have become increasingly unsure, and she’s quietly pleased to find it’s actually Connor.
Connor’s comment “do I look like that skinny white boy?” was simply a description – and an accurate one at that – of Peter Beale. It was not intended to be a racist insult in any way.
When taking photographs the old fashioned way using film, the process makes personal photos become public by means of processing.
As a group we liked the aspect of the collection of photographs which get left behind and never collected.
We each took our own photos which we considered suggested privacy, voyeurism and things which you wouldn’t usually see. When we put all the images together it was interesting to see how different images corrolated to create a narrative.
Again im not sure what people think of this but we have some weird laws in the u.k which are things that are not meant to be done but what if we broke them. Doing something that we are not meant to do and then publishing it…but i dunno if this is a bit of a tangent?
- It is illegal to die in the Houses of Parliament
- It is an act of treason to place a postage stamp bearing the British monarch upside-down. Also, defacing or destroying anything bearing a likeness of the monarch is illegal. This includes burning paper money or tearing a stamp apart.
- In Liverpool, it is illegal for a woman to be topless except as a clerk in a tropical fish store
- Mince pies cannot be eaten on Christmas Day
- In Scotland, if someone knocks on your door and requires the use of your toilet, you must let them enter
- In the UK, a pregnant woman can legally relieve herself anywhere she wants, including in a policeman’s helmet
- The head of any dead whale found on the British coast automatically becomes the property of the King, and the tail of the Queen
- It is illegal not to tell the tax man anything you do not want him to know, but legal not to tell him information you do not mind him knowing
- It is illegal to enter the Houses of Parliament in a suit of armour
- In the city of York it is legal to murder a Scotsman within the ancient city walls, but only if he is carrying a bow and arrow
- The Library Offences Act of 1898 makes it illegal to gamble in a library.
- One may not drive a cow while drunk. The Licensing Act of 1872 explains that operating a horse, cow or steam engine while intoxicated carries a prison sentence or a Ј200 fine.
- It is an executable offense to allow your pet to mate with a pet of the royal house without permission.
- It is illegal to leave your car keys in an unoccupied vehicle.
Even if i am going off on a bit of a tangent they are still quite good to know!!
This is probably more about surveillance but what he did was really interesting….
After being targeted by the FBI over the 9/11 terrorist attacks at an airport he was eventually released from customs as proven to have had no connection with the attacks. To prevent this from happening again he asked the FBI for a piece of writing to prove that he had already been cleared of these accusations. After the FBI refused he began to record everywhere he was with photos…from taking photos of his inflight meals to the street he was on. Therefore having his whole life documented and having an online instant alibi.
He has a life tracking website where you can see where he is at this exact moment.
http://trackingtransience.net/
Eye
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a collection of over 20,000 images and aerial maps
timestamping my location across 3 years
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| Tracking Transience: Security & Comfort a collection of over 400 toilets that I have used while in transit between December 2002 and January 2007 as development work for tracking device ongoing |
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