Can you beleive that no sooner does one controversy appear to be on the way out,Channel 4 manages to create another one.
Its Shipwreck series has been accused of broadcastimng racist comments and this morning's tabloids are full of it.This from the Daily Mirror,
CHANNEL 4 faces fresh fury after a teenager more racist than Jade Goody aired her vile views on a new reality show.
Shipwrecked star Lucy Buchanan, 18, said black people were "really bad", fat people were "disgusting" and criticised gays.
The public schoolgirl told fellow contestants: "I'm for the British Empire and things. I'm for slavery."
Shipwrecked star Lucy Buchanan, 18, said black people were "really bad", fat people were "disgusting" and criticised gays.
The public schoolgirl told fellow contestants: "I'm for the British Empire and things. I'm for slavery."
The tabloids have certainly gone to town on this,the Sun across its front page proclaiming,
New race storm for Channel 4
Whilst the Star has
C4 girl: Bring back slavery
Furious viewers blitzed TV watchdog Ofcom with complaints following the return of hit reality series Shipwrecked.More than a million people who tuned in on Sunday were gobsmacked to hear the “outrageously racist” views of posh contestant Lucy Buchanan, pictured. The public schoolgirl stunned other contestants with her comments, saying:*She hates black people*Britain is overrun with foreigners*British life is being ruined by new arrivals*She hates fat and ugly people.
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A recent, perhaps trivial, example of this kind of intellectual ethnic warfare is the popular movie Addams Family Values (released in November 1993), produced by Scott Rudin, directed by Barry Sonnenfeld, and written by Paul Rudnick. The bad guys in the movie are virtually anyone with blond hair (the exception being an overweight child), and the good guys include two Jewish children wearing yarmulkes. (Indeed, having blond hair is viewed as a pathology, so that when the dark-haired Addams baby temporarily becomes blond, there is a family crisis.) The featured Jewish child has dark hair, ears glasses, and is physically frail and nonathletic. He often makes precociously intelligent comments, and he is severely punished by the blond-haired counselors for reading a highly intellectual book. The evil gentile children are the opposite: blond, athletic, and unintellectual. Together with other assorted dark-haired children from a variety of ethnic backgrounds and white gentile children rejected by their peers (for being overweight, etc.), the Jewish boy and the Addams family children lead a very violent movement that succeeds in destroying the blond enemy. The movie is a parable illustrating the general thrust of Jewish intellectual and political activity relating to immigration and multiculturalism in Western societies. It is also consistent with the general thrust of Hollywood movies. SAID (McDonald 1998) reviews data indicating Jewish domination of the entertainment industry in the United States. Powers, Rothman and Rothman (1996, 207) characterize television as promoting liberal, cosmopolitan values, and Lichter, Lichter and Rothman (1994, 251) find that television portrays cultural pluralism in positive terms and as easily achieved apart from the activities of a few ignorant or bigoted miscreants.
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