An article from radio bod John Myers has caught my attention,
looking in to why a nation of serial complainers, could possibly become
a reason to complain in itself.
It's an issue that's been written on my blog many a time, but
when the BBC is hit by en-masse miserable so and sos, they resort
to acting like the England football team if they had lost the first round
of the World Cup, i.e. taking a long time to recover.
I don't know if the Clarkson issue is directly responsible, but it can't
be coincidental that the extended repeats of Have I Got News For You
since then have had all the fucks bleeped, even when not used in a sexual
context.
To make that more understandable, when a not so PC comment is made on the BBC, they adapt a nanny-state regime because they're scared of an
onslaught of self-righteous letters and e-mails, and meaningless
critiques from right-wing newspapers.
What's more surprising is that Mark Thompson has survived countless scandals
within the corporation and kept his job as director general,
yet his predecessor was forced to resign after the findings of
an independent inquiry went out of the corporation's favour.
And all because a journalist from the Today programme hinted that
the then Prime Minister was a manipulative idiot.
The broadcasting world would certainly be a better place, if the BBC and
other organisations adapted the responding-to-a-complaint method
as mentioned by John Myers himself, in the below audio
taken from The Radio Academy Podcast.
Which goes to show that there are far worse things to worry about
beyond broadcasting.
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