As I've said before, the BBC's self-criticising programmes (a fine idea in principle) range from the utterly feeble (Points of View) to the barely tepid (Feedback) to the sometimes-decent-but-somewhat-hidden-away (Newswatch).
Following on from an earlier post, this week's Feedback (the barely tepid one) followed its strange segment promoting complaints that the BBC wasn't being anywhere near PC enough over immigration...
...by plugging BBC comedy (at length), and then indulging some humourless Radio 2 listener who, some time after hearing the news bulletin on the Chris Evans Show - which featured a news item about domestic violence - found herself (after listening to a Kate Bush song first) deeply offended at having to listen to Tom Jones's much-loved Delilah.
...by plugging BBC comedy (at length), and then indulging some humourless Radio 2 listener who, some time after hearing the news bulletin on the Chris Evans Show - which featured a news item about domestic violence - found herself (after listening to a Kate Bush song first) deeply offended at having to listen to Tom Jones's much-loved Delilah.
That's an old story, but that didn't stop Feedback from giving its bizarrely po-faced listener's "concerns" a good airing, and from then wasting a few minutes of precious air time by confronting some BBC bigwig about it.
At the risk of sounding like a tabloid journalist, the world - by which I mean the BBC and some of its listeners - has obviously gone stark, staring mad.
The one compensation for all of this is that it gives me the excuse to post the Kate Bush song that actually followed that "distressing" news item (rather than the Tom Jones song that came later)...
If a Russian grandmother listening to BBC Radio 2 complained about that, saying that it objectifies Russian grandmothers, would Uncle Roger champion her cause too?
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