Is it just me, or is there something darn stupid about the current news story about John Barrowman: "The BBC was back apologising today after Doctor Who actor John Barrowman exposed himself on a live Radio 1 show." Really? Live on radio, eh? Shocking. Daily Mail readers should go after the makers of I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again, next - I hear they transmitted a regular half-hour of "full-frontal radio" throughout the 1960s. These people must be stopped!!!
ETA: Aha - it was also recorded on webcam. Okay, that makes more sense.
*waits for YouTube to explode*
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And they say Americans are prudes...actually, we probably would have had him fired. Never mind. *g*
Well, there's been a spate of media fuss about bad behaviour on radio shows, recently - blown up ridiculously by the press. Normally, I suspect it would have gone by without notice. I mean, exposing himself on radio, ffs.
Also? By inviting John Barrowman, wasn't that something they should have seen coming? I mean, that's like inviting a politician and expect him to not talk about politics, isn't it?
Well, the presenter of the show apparently said this to John Barrowman: "You’re famous, we’re told, for getting your willy out in interviews. Is this going to happen today?"
So, a) it's happened before, and nobody's taken much notice, and b) they rather invited it.
*shrugs*
Bizarro-world - here I come!
The Beeb saith:
A spokeswoman also stressed that nothing untoward was screened online via the station's webcam.
Nope, still not making any sense.
I like Charlie Brooker's suggestion:
Or maybe, just maybe, it's time to establish "Counter-Complaints": a method of registering your complaint about the number of knee-jerk complaints. And one should cancel out the other - so if 25,000 people complain, and a further 25,000 counter-complain, the total number of complaints is zero. It might lead to a lot of fruitless button-mashing, but at least we can keep our shared national culture relatively sane.
*shakes head*