Now Beyer and the Daily Mail rage as BBC mocks the Queen

Oh send the entire BBC and everyone involved with Mock The Week to the Tower and then OFF WITH THEIR HEADS! LOL!

From the Daily Mail:

Even as Russell Brand row raged, BBC ‘comedians’ were insulting the Queen

By Olinka Koster and Arthur Martin
Last updated at 9:45 AM on 31st October 2008

While fury against the BBC over Russell Brand and Jonathan Ross was at its peak, the corporation brazenly aired a highly offensive remark about the Queen.

During the comedy show Mock The Week on Wednesday evening, Scottish comedian Frankie Boyle made a ‘disgracefully foul’ so-called joke.

Asked to think of something the Queen would not say in her Christmas speech, he put on a high voice and said: ‘I have had a few medical issues this year  -  I’m now so old that my p**** is haunted.’

‘Disgracefully foul’: Mock The Week host Dara O’Briain (r) and comedian Frankie Boyle

The decision to allow the ‘joke’ to be aired on the show at 10pm, hours after Brand resigned, has led to renewed anger among viewers.

Boyle’s ‘gag’, in a Mock The Week repeat, is just one example of the depths to which the BBC has fallen.

The Daily Mail has uncovered further examples of bad language and degrading remarks given airtime by the corporation.

John Beyer, of Mediawatch UK, said of the Mock The Week remark: ‘It is very offensive and should not have been broadcast. It is indicative of the sloppy way in which this kind of thing gets on air.

‘There is a great deal of respect for the Queen and people do feel very strongly about any kind of disrespectful comments about her. It compounds what is going on at the moment.

‘One has to acknowledge that the BBC is in the frontline of producing really excellent material, but when it comes to lapses of judgment like this you really have to look at the way things go on air.

‘Clearly, there needs to be an assessment as to whether the chain of command that has been referred to time and again over the Ross and Brand affair is actually functioning.’

David Davies, Tory MP for Monmouth, urged BBC viewers who were offended to hold off from paying their licence fee until the last possible moment in protest.

‘If the BBC wishes to continue to take taxpayers’ money it is going to have to become accountable to the people it serves,’ he said.

‘Ordinary, decent people who are struggling to pay their mortgages must wonder why overpaid buffoons are being rewarded for making foul comments about elderly people who have always behaved with the utmost decorum.

‘It was a disgracefully foul comment to make about any lady.

‘Just because the Queen is the Queen, it doesn’t mean she doesn’t have feelings, and she should not be subjected to that kind of comment on a national TV programme.’

The comedians in the programme, which claims to take a satirical view of current affairs, were asked to come up with ideas of what the Queen would not have said in her Christmas message.

 

While some of the suggestions were simply ‘humorous’, others verged on the offensive.

Hugh Dennis wiped his lips and said: ‘Yum yum, I’ve just eaten a swan’ before suggesting the Queen was sharing a cave with Osama bin Laden.

Boyle, who is known for his below-the-belt quirky humour, also suggested Prince Charles was not Prince Harry’s father, while Russell Howard pretended to be the Queen doing an impression of reggae singer Shaggy.

Three minutes after the programme ended, a discussion forum about Boyle’s offensive comment was started on the Internet. One upset viewer said: ‘It frustrates me as a licence payer that on a day when other BBC people resign over comedy content, that this programme and comments about the Queen are put out.

‘Just smacks of hypocrisy as far as I can see.’

A spokesman for the BBC said: ‘Mock The Week is a well-established satirical comedy series whose audience has very clear expectations of its bold and sometimes provocative humour.

‘This edition was first shown 21 months ago and is part of a run of repeated editions.’

Buckingham Palace declined to comment.

This is a transcript of the part of the show in which the Queen was mocked:

Dara O’Briain (host): ‘OK, our next topic is “What the Queen didn’t say in her Christmas message”.’

(Comedians take turns to impersonate the Queen)

Hugh Dennis (wiping his lips): ‘Yum yum, I’ve just eaten a swan.’

Russell Howard (using Shaggy-like dance moves): ‘And now, for an impression: You call me Mr Boombastic, say me fantastic, kiss me on the butt they call me Mr Boom . . . whoo . . . romantic.’

Hugh Dennis: ‘Are you paying too much for your car insurance?’

Frankie Boyle: ‘It’s been good to spend some time with my family  -  and Harry.’

Andy Parsons: ‘As usual after this we’ll be watching The Great Escape. And as usual, we’ll be supporting the Germans.’

Hugh Dennis: ‘This year, I am in an unusual location  -  I am in a cave with Osama bin Laden.’

Russell Howard: ‘Don’t tell anyone, but I’m actually an elf.’

Frankie Boyle: ‘I’ve had a few medical problems this year  -  I am now so old that my p**** is haunted.’

Dara O’Briain: ‘OK, at the end of that round, points go to Frankie, Hugh and Mark (their fellow team member). Everybody sit down. And that is the end of the show, this week’s winners are Frankie Boyle, Hugh Dennis and Mark Watson.’

 

“The decision to allow the ‘joke’ to be aired on the show at 10pm, hours after Brand resigned, has led to renewed anger among viewers.”

Doesn’t look like it has. It’s just led to renewed anger from John Beyer who the Daily Mail likes to hold up as the voice of every viewer in the country.

 ’There is a great deal of respect for the Queen and people do feel very strongly about any kind of disrespectful comments about her.”

Respect only from middle Englanders like Beyer and the Daily Mail who believe the Queen and the entire Monarchy to be above everyone and beyond reproach and the slightest criticism let alone joke about them should deamed as beyond the pale.

“David Davies, Tory MP for Monmouth, urged BBC viewers who were offended to hold off from paying their licence fee until the last possible moment in protest. “

Ohhh how daring! Until the “last possible moment”. Hardly gonna make them martyrs is it?

“Ordinary, decent people who are struggling to pay their mortgages must wonder why overpaid buffoons are being rewarded for making foul comments about elderly people who have always behaved with the utmost decorum. “

Who does Davies mean by “elderly people who have always behaved with the utmost decorum”? The Queen? Scrounging off the hard working people of this country and living a live of unearned and undeserved luxury and privilage is not behaving with decorum!

The Daily Mail and Beyer want the BBC to bow and scrape to the Queen and the Monarchy and only show programmes which show them as perfect and above everyone else.

 

In the actual Mail newspaper this article features a run down of all the programmes which the Mail says is “broadcasting obscenities viewers’ living rooms.” Popular programmes such as That Mitchell and Web Look, The Graham Norton Show and Love Soup are sighted.

Now did it ever occur to the fuckwits at the Daily Mail that if these programmes are broadcasting obscenities into viewers’ living rooms it’s because viewers are CHOOSING to watch such programmes because they might (horror of horror) actually LIKE them?

No they are being forced to watch them? Of course! Doh!

And if there are those who actually like these programmes and want to watch them then of course they must be stopped from watching them by people who know better than them like the Daily Mail and John Beyer. Natrually!

The Daily Mail apologise if any of their readers are offended by the details of these obscene programmes. Oh all Daily Mail readers need to be offended by something at least ten times a year!

More power to the Mail’s elbow, offending their readers to warn them off all the filth out there on the BBC that they don’t want to watch! Lol!

As for Mock The Week Mediasnoops thinks it’s a brilliant programme and Frankie Boyle is one of the most bang on the money comics on TV at the moment. If the Daily Mail and Beyer don’t like it they know where the remote control is.

 

Ross/Brand prank call: Beyer has a bit more to say

Beyer has been for the most part not as loud on the Ross/Brand/Saches affair as we would have thought he would be. Perhaps he’s getting wary of being seen to be jumping on bandwagons for his own ends.
But comments by the editor of the programme Newsbeat has prompted him to come right out of the woodwork.

From Mediawatch UK:

The Joke Is On Us – Ross Suspended on £16,000 a Day of Taxpayers’ Money

Under-fire BBC presenter Jonathan Ross is to be handed £16,000 a day of your money for doing nothing.  That will be his reward after he was suspended yesterday over the obscene phone stunt scandal, the Daily Express can reveal.  But in a move certain to anger licence-payers – already furious at his and Russell Brand’s treatment of veteran Fawlty Towers actor Andrew Sachs – he will continue to be paid his full salary. 

As the number of complaints to the BBC approached 20,000, Mr McKenzie, editor of Radio 1’s Newsbeat, suggested on his internet blog that part of the reason was “salary envy and schadenfreude”.  He said younger BBC listeners who had contacted his network had been largely supportive of Brand and Ross and were tired of the constant media coverage of the storm.  But his remarks caused outrage among broadcasting groups already upset over the BBC’s handling of the affair. 

John Beyer, of mediawatch-uk, said: “These remarks are very difficult to justify when the Prime Minister and the BBC Director-General have said it is unacceptable and offensive.  There is an investigation being carried out by the BBC and the regulator Ofcom, so I really think Mr McKenzie’s remarks are out of step.  The anger of the people contacting us is certainly not synthetic.

“We have had a huge number of calls from people who are saying they have never complained before but felt compelled to get in touch about this incident.  There is a great deal of real anger about how the licence fee is being used to fund increased levels of swearing and indecency on our airwaves.” 

He added: “This protest is a manifestation of the much wider concern about standards generally.  Viewers and listeners are now really fed up with all the swearing and indecency that is being broadcast into their homes.”
Daily Express 30/10/2008
“We have had a huge number of calls from people who are saying they have never complained before but felt compelled to get in touch about this incident.”

Compelled by the Daily Mail no doubt! People who’ve never complained before eh? People with lives then.
“This protest is a manifestation of the much wider concern about standards generally.”

So you think Mr Beyer so you think. It’s more likely that you and the Daily Mail are making this protest a manifestation of the “much wider concern about standards generally.”
“There is a great deal of real anger about how the licence fee is being used to fund increased levels of swearing and indecency on our airwaves.”

Or rather there is a great deal of real anger amongst viewers who share the same views as Mediawatch UK that the licence fee is being used to fund programmes they do not like.

 

“Viewers and listeners are now really fed up with all the swearing and indecency that is being broadcast into their homes.”

Yes because broadcasters are forcing swearing and indency into the homes of viewers and listeners and there’s nothing they can do to stop it! Cleary not if they do not know what an off button is for.
Beyer is now returning to form and using the controversy to boost his campaign.

Ross, Brand, Thompson and Catholic values

This from Stephen Glover in the Daily Mail. If anything proves the Mail’s outrage over the Brand/Ross/Saches affair is to do with their agenda against the BBC this is it.

Glover seems outraged that any broadcasting company could possibly give two TV personalities he finds distasteful airtime and is equally outraged nobody is doing anything to stop them being given airtime.

From the Daily Mail:

How could a man of such high morals preside over the BBC’s descent into the gutter
30th October 2008

The suspension of the foul-mouthed Jonathan Ross and the forced resignation of his equally disagreeable sidekick Russell Brand marked an extraordinary historic cultural victory. For the first time in living memory, the BBC has signalled that there are boundaries of decency it must not cross.
But, my goodness, didn’t this admission take a long time coming? No one at the BBC appeared to realise that the original show broadcast by Radio 2 on October 18 was so offensive.

Ross and Brand’s vulgar abuse of the actor Andrew Sachs was passed on the nod by a 25-year-old Radio 2 producer, even though Mr Sachs had refused his permission.

That young man evidently did not know any better. But nor did his bosses. It took several days of mounting Press coverage, and critical remarks by David Cameron, Gordon Brown and other politicians, before the BBC’s management finally responded.
Even then the person whose head was pushed above the parapet was that of Tim Davie, the ‘director of audio and music’, of whom none of us had ever heard.
Only yesterday did Mark Thompson, the BBC’s director-general, and the man ultimately responsible for the Corporation’s output, break his holiday and announce that he was suspending Ross and Brand.

His statement was certainly everything one might have wished for, referring as it did to ‘a gross lapse of taste that has angered licence payers’, but it had to be wrung out of him.
Mr Thompson is a deeply symbolic figure of our times. He is not a bad man. He is civilised and well-read, having taken a first in English at Oxford.

As a devout Roman Catholic, he adheres to moral values that are a million miles from those of Ross and Brand. And yet he has made no attempt to stem the tide of clod-hopping filth that pours out of their, and others’, mouths whenever they broadcast.
Why should this be? Perhaps Mr Thompson believes that Ross and Brand are popular figures who will attract a large audience. Although the BBC is protected from commercial realities, it increasingly conducts itself as though these are the only realities that matter.

Shielded from the market, the Corporation often strives to outdo the market in offering dumbed-down programming, and appealing to the lowest common denominator.

But I fancy there is a deeper psychological explanation for Mr Thompson’s indulgence of so-called entertainers against whose vulgarity and ignorance he must privately recoil.

Whereas some on the Left embrace Brand for his nihilism and for what they regard as his welcome flouting of bourgeois values – he seems eager to copulate with anything that moves – Mr Thompson is a more elevated, as well as a more interesting, character.
Brand has now resigned from his Radio 2 show while Ross remains suspended

Like so many modern liberal-minded intellectuals, he has a horror of being judgmental. He knows that Jonathan Ross is a coarse figure, but he reasons that if there are people who enjoy his crudeness and lavatory humour and peppering of four-letter words, he is not going to prevent them from having what they desire.

There is a fissure in him that permits this moral relativism. For himself and his family he wants culture and standards of decency, but if there are others who prefer dross, he is not going to stand in their way.
Yet, more than any other organisation, the BBC should not be in the business of providing dross. It is protected from the market. It was founded on high and noble principles.

It does not have to follow the worst trends – far less take the lead – and lure us into the gutter. Mr Thompson might not be fitted by background or temperament to edit the Daily Smut, but he has all the attributes to guide the BBC towards higher ground. And yet he does not do so.
The French philosopher Julien Benda famously coined the phrase ‘La Trahison des Clercs’  -  the betrayal of the intellectuals. He was thinking of French and German 19th-century intellectuals who had become apologists for militarism and nationalism.

The modern trahison des clercs is that of liberal intellectuals like Mr Thompson who can recognise goodness and truth but, out of fear of appearing judgmental or proscriptive, will not help others to find them.
This moral dereliction amounts to a fatal arrogance. Mr Thompson knows why it is wrong to scatter four-letter words on television. He can see that the kind of humour purveyed by the likes of Ross and Brand does not raise people up but often pushes them down.

But, because he is terrified of being seen imposing his values – which are, in fact, almost indistinguishable from the old values of the BBC – he has so far said: let them have what they want. Then he returns to the books and music and culture of his pleasant house in Oxford.
The greatest victims of this negligence are the young, as Sir John Tusa, a former head of the BBC World Service (one of the diminishing number of bastions of excellence in the Corporation) rightly pointed out yesterday on Radio 4’s Today programme.

The young, more than any of us, deserve guidance, and need inspiration. Instead, they are offered the sex-obsessed ravings of a pathetic clown like Brand. Shouldn’t they have better from the publicly-funded BBC?

The Church of England, like the BBC, has become a timid organisation that is often frightened to take a public stand against moral excesses which it knows in its heart are wrong.

Both the director-general of the BBC and the Archbishop of Canterbury would be utterly incomprehensible figures to their predecessors of 50 years ago, let alone a hundred.
Timid leaders are the curse of our national life. But the events of the past few days may indicate that the general public are not so timid, and they at least have strong standards.

BBC bosses were not able to see what was objectionable about Ross and Brand’s outpourings, but thousands of ordinary people, once alerted, could. It was the shocking realisation that many licence-payers had had enough – that they still defended standards of decency and proper behaviour – that finally jerked Mr Thompson out of his holiday reveries.
Inexcusable
His inclination may well be to rehabilitate Ross – Brand, by resigning, would seem to have put himself beyond the pale – once the fuss has blown over. He would be making a great mistake if he did so.

He has commissioned a report, which he will deliver to the BBC today, but we don’t need such a document to tell us that both men behaved in an inexcusable way, and should not be employed by our public sector broadcasting organisation again.
Will this historic cultural victory stick? Yesterday’s Mail reported that, in April, a BBC1 comedy drama called Love Soup showed a woman being ‘raped’ by a dog.

The BBC still pumps out many programmes that offend against decency and taste, and are often particularly offensive to women. We should not imagine that the tap will be turned off in a trice.
But, maybe the affair of those unfunny and grossly overpaid vulgarians Jonathan Ross and Russell Brand will show Mr Thompson and his senior colleagues that the BBC has become dangerously out of step with many of the people who pay its bills.

If Mr Thompson does not have the courage to act on his moral convictions, he will be wise to listen to the outrage of those who do.
“Like so many modern liberal-minded intellectuals, he has a horror of being judgmental.”

Oh yes libreal-minded intellectuals! Those dreaded librel lefties who if the likes of Stephen Glover and the Daily Mail had their way would be burned at the steak outside the Tower Of London for daring to hold and voice opinions they disagree with!
“He knows that Jonathan Ross is a coarse figure, but he reasons that if there are people who enjoy his crudeness and lavatory humour and peppering of four-letter words, he is not going to prevent them from having what they desire.”

In other words Mark Thompson does not dictate to people what they should and should not be allowed to watch. Oh how evil he is! Yes there are some people who enjoy Jonathon Ross’ humour and Stephen Glover and the Daily Mail are truley disgusted nobody is stopping them from watching and enjoying it.
“There is a fissure in him that permits this moral relativism. For himself and his family he wants culture and standards of decency, but if there are others who prefer dross, he is not going to stand in their way.”

In other words he does not try to impose his views and believes on others. Oh confound him! Such a shame he can’t be more like the Daily Mail and the ever so moral and upstanding people who write for the Daily Mail and make it his life’s ambition to stop people watching, doing and hearing things that goes against his views and believes. Such a shame!
“But, because he is terrified of being seen imposing his values – which are, in fact, almost indistinguishable from the old values of the BBC – he has so far said: let them have what they want.”

Oh no! He should just ban people from watching anything that goes against his values. That would obviously make him a far better and moral person in the eyes of Glover and the Mail!
“The Church of England, like the BBC, has become a timid organisation that is often frightened to take a public stand against moral excesses which it knows in its heart are wrong.”

A public stand against moral excesses which it knows in its heart are wrong….

What like being gay?
“Both the director-general of the BBC and the Archbishop of Canterbury would be utterly incomprehensible figures to their predecessors of 50 years ago, let alone a hundred.”

Yeah they would have been locked up or burned at the steak! If only we could go back to those day eh Stephen?
“The greatest victims of this negligence are the young, as Sir John Tusa, a former head of the BBC World Service (one of the diminishing number of bastions of excellence in the Corporation) rightly pointed out yesterday on Radio 4’s Today programme.

The young, more than any of us, deserve guidance, and need inspiration. Instead, they are offered the sex-obsessed ravings of a pathetic clown like Brand. Shouldn’t they have better from the publicly-funded BBC?”

Yes yes the BBC are corrupting and destroying the young! Oh we know this already and it’s been blathered on about by the Daily Mail and other right-wing “TV is destroying children and society” fruitcakes for years. Change the fucking record!
“The young, more than any of us, deserve guidance, and need inspiration.”

Guidance and inspiration from people who vote Tory and read the Daily Mail eh? It doesn’t bare thinking about!
“The BBC still pumps out many programmes that offend against decency and taste, and are often particularly offensive to women.”

Yes yes and Mr Glover wants an all powerful regulator to stop that. Oh and look the usual feigining concern over women being offended! Funny but Mail writers usually don’t give much of a toss about Muslims or gays being offended. When Muslims or gays are offended it’s “politcall correctness gone mad”!

What really hacks of people like Stephen Glover and hacks off the Daily Mail is that the BBC have a director general who dares put out the kind of programming they dissaprove of. They want a director who will only ever put out the kind of programming that the Daily Mail and their Tory voting readers believe to be acceptable and will put a stop to any kind of programmes that they may find offensive.

Glover and the Daily Mail have turned into what was a particularly pleasant but innoceous incident involving two nitwits into a massive surmon about decency and values and an explanation to the problems of society being in the “gutter”.
This is far more about outrage at two twerps leaving rude and offensive messages on a man’s answerphone but about the Glover and the Mail’s fears and parnoia about “librels” apparently destroying standards and decency in Britain.

It’s just a shame the BBC didn’t deal with the matter quicker because it would have given the Daily Mail and their houlier than thou hacks less to bleat about.

Daily Mail lead Ross/Brand phone prank outrage

The Daily Mail is througouly milking the outrage over the Jonathon
Ross/Russel Brand radio prank call to Andrew Sachs for all it’s worth.
We can’t really be fucked to publish everything coming out of
Britain’s number one right-wing rag on the furore but if you go to
www.dailymail.co.uk you can check it all out for yourself.
Not only do they have a colloum penned by Pierce Morgan slaughtering
Johnathon Ross as “sex obsessed” and calling for him to be the first
to be sacked but they have a whole feature detailing all
the “tastelesness” that the BBC have been churning out recently.
It’s obvious that the Mail is using the furore to stick the boot
further into one of their favourite pet hates which as we all know is
run by their dreaded PC librel lefty types!

But it’s no wonder that the Daily Mail is milking the outrage for all
it’s worth because the Daily Mail generated the outrage in the first
place. It was they who phoned Andrew Sachs to inform him about the
offensive messages left on his answer phone and it turns out that
before the Mail On Sunday splashed the story all over it’s front page
just 2 complaints had been made to the BBC and both of which were
about Johnathon Ross swearing.
It’s also likely that the Mail has an agenda against Russel Brand
because he’s one of those “alternative lefty” comics (does anyone know
the political leanings of Russel Brand? certainly the Daily Mail
doesn’t!) they loath and despise so much for “corrupting” the youth of
today with “filth”.
But most of all it comes down to the Daily Mail’s agenda against the
BBC who no longer bow and scrape to anal Tory politicians!

Of course nothing can justify the behaviour of Ross and Brand who
should apologise. But the furore and outrage has been elivated to such
heights that it now takes priority over all other far more important
things happening in the world. But when there is a chance to take a
swipe at those orrible “lefties” who run the BBC the Daily Mail would
put the outbreak of world war 3 right down the list of top stories!

The Sun are lying bastards!

We forgot to publish The Scum’s comment on Katy Perry’s knife
picture. It just about sums up how low this nasty rag has gone to
smear Perry.

From The Sun:

SCORES of teenagers are stabbed to death each year in Britain.

The latest tragic victim was a 16-year-old Liverpool lad, knifed to
death incredibly on his first visit to a church youth club.

So how does publicity-hungry pop babe Katy Perry respond to this
massacre on our streets?

By posing for a publicity shot waving a flick-knife.

We need to hear an apology. Fast.

“So how does publicity-hungry pop babe Katy Perry respond to this
massacre on our streets?”

But she was not responding to anything! This picture was taken THREE
years ago!

To say that she is responding to this “massacre on our streets” by
posing waving a flick knife is a blatant lie!

The Sun truley are tossers of the highest order!

“We need to hear an apology. Fast.”

No it’s The Scum who need to fucking apologise! For lying about Katy
Perry, the picture and trying to smear her and ruin her career by
digging up something she did three years ago!

WE need to hear an apology? Who does The Sun think they speek for?
Oh right of course brainless morons who will believe anything!

Right-wing land launch war on BBC for Brand/Ross prank

Yes Russel Brand and Johnathon Ross’s prank on Andrew Sachs was in very poor taste. But this is more about the Daily Mail’s, the Tory’s and Mediawatch UK’s personal axe to grind against the BBC.

From the Daily Mail:

Ofcom probe into scandal of Ross and Brand’s ‘prank’ call as pressure grows for them to be sacked despite apologies

• Pressure on BBC chief to apologise

By Liz Thomas, Simon Cable and Christian Gysin
Last updated at 11:25 AM on 28th October 2008

 

Media watchdog Ofcom today said it will investigate the offensive phone calls made by Jonathan Ross and Russell Brand to Fawlty Towers actor Andrew Sachs.

It comes as the 78-year-old actor called on the pair to apologise to his granddaughter Georgina Baillie, 23, over the obscene messages in which they claimed Brand slept with the model and sometime musician.

Mr Sachs, who played Spanish waiter Manuel, told MailOnline: ‘We are a loving family and the whole thing is fairly unpleasant. I am hurt and angry by the whole thing.

‘But I am not as hurt and angry as my granddaughter, who is very upset by the whole thing. The real focus should be on the harm they have done to her.’

He added: ‘I had a very contrite letter from Jonathan Ross making no excuses for his behaviour. I haven’t heard from Russell Brand directly.’

Scroll down to read the full transcript

Controversy: Russell Brand with his producer Nic Philps who has been questioned by Radio 2’s controller about how the offending broadcast was aired

 

 

The BBC’s Director General is under pressure to make a personal public apology over the calls.

None of the corporation’s senior management including DG Mark Thompson, head of radio output Tim Davie or Radio 2 controller Lesley Douglas has spoken out despite the BBC receiving a record amount of complaints.

The corporation said that 4,775 listeners have complained about the broadcast.

It added that many focused on the pair’s taxpayer-funded salaries. Ross is paid £6 million a year for radio and television work, while Brand receives more than £200,000.

However, Tory MP John Whittingdale, chairman of the Commons Media Select Committee, said: ‘This is a serious breach compounded by a failure to issue a proper apology. A senior figure such as Mark Thompson needs to speak out.’

Mr Whittingdale said Mr Thompson will be asked to account for the failures in the chain of command, which allowed the recording to be aired.

 

Under fire: Jonathon Ross and Brand, both pictured yesterday, have been condemned for leaving offensive messages for 78-year-old Fawlty Towers star Andrew Sachs

He added: ‘What is more troubling is that this part of the radio programme went through editorial checks and balances that are meant to stop this from happening.’

‘This is the latest in a succession of appalling incidents from both comics. They seem to repeatedly cause offence and get away with it.’

‘Particularly in the case of Jonathan Ross, there have been a whole series of incidents where he has breached the rules and I think the BBC need to think about whether they wish to be in this market still.

‘And if they do wish to continue to produce programmes of this kind they do need to put in place stronger controls, particularly for stars who command such huge amounts of licence fee payers’ money.’

 

 

 

 

Comedy classic: Mr Sachs as Manuel in Fawlty Towers and, right, pictured with his wife Melody

 

Georgina Baillie was the target of Ross’s and Brand’s abuse

Ms Douglas, who brought Brand to Radio 2, is believed to have already questioned her number two, head of programmes Lewis Carnie and Brand’s producer, Nic Philps, over why the offensive calls to Fawlty Towers actor Mr Sachs were aired.

Mr Thompson will have to determine who was at fault in authorising the late-night programme.

It is believed a senior producer between Mr Carnie and Mr Philps signed off on the programme.

However, given the level of public outcry it appears inevitable the BBC Trust  -  as the public broadcaster’s independent governing body  -  will have to become involved.

Sir Michael Lyons, as chairman, will be able to call for punitive action against the two stars or the senior management responsible for their conduct.

Ex-BBC deputy director general Will Wyatt said the messages left by Brand and Ross, one of the BBC’s highest paid presenters, were ‘completely inappropriate’.

He said: ‘This was broadcast over a licence-fee paid network and it was to an ageing actor who hadn’t done anyone any harm. One way or another someone should take some pain for this.’

Miss Baillie cut short a European tour with the burlesque dance group the Satanic Sluts in the wake of the broadcast. 

Her mother Kate, 47, said: ‘Those two should just learn to grow up. My father is the world’s most decent man and to put him up in front of an audience for humiliation is ridiculous.’

David Davies, Tory MP for Monmouth, said the pair should be fired immediately and accused the BBC of abusing the trust of licence-fee payers. He added: ‘In no other organisation, paid for by the taxpayer or otherwise, would you be able to get away with behaving like this.

‘These two men are paid millions – from our pockets – and they think it is entertaining to call up a pensioner and shout lewd, disgusting things about his granddaughter down the phone.

‘I do not understand how anyone can claim it is funny or entertaining to do that to an elderly man.’

Paul Farrelly, Labour MP for Newcastle-under-Lyme, said: ‘Russell Brand should be sacked and the BBC’s editorial standards team should be hauled over the coals as well. How could this have been given the green light to go out on air?’

John Beyer, of Mediawatch UK, said the two stars should be taken off air while an investigation takes place.

The furore has dragged the corporation back into the spotlight after a series of incidents which corroded viewers’ trust.

Last year BBC bosses made a grovelling apology to the Queen after showing misleading footage to the press which wrongly suggested she had stormed out of a photo session.

Confidence was also shaken by a series of phone-in scandals involving Children in Need and Blue Peter.

Mr Sachs tried to calm the furore last night. He said: ‘I love the BBC, I have worked for them for over 50 years and I continue to work for them. Sometimes things can go wrong.’

Before calling Mr Sachs on the show, 33-year-old Brand referred to ‘the elephant in the room’ – that the actor did not know the comedian had slept with his granddaughter.

During the call, Ross shouted: ‘He f***** your granddaughter’ and later speculated that Brand had ‘enjoyed’ Georgina on a swing.

During another message Brand told Sachs: ‘I used a condom.’

One message involved Brand singing about doing something wrong.

Brand, aware that a newspaper was preparing a story, delivered a jokey ‘apology’ on his show last weekend.

He said: ‘I’d like to take this opportunity to issue a personal Russell Brand apology to Andrew Sachs, the great comic actor who played Manuel, for a message that Jonathan and I left on his answer phone, but it was quite funny.’

Asked yesterday if he had anything to say to Mr Sachs, Brand said: ‘ Obviously I would talk to him directly. I am not sure you are the right conduit.’

Miss Baillie said last night: ‘I’ve only just got back.

‘I was aware of what happened but I just need some time to get my head together now.

 

 

Georgina Baillie uses the stage name ‘Voluptua’ and dances with a goth group called Satanic Sluts. This image appears on her MySpace website

‘I don’t want to say anything more until I’ve had a chance to speak to my agent.’

Miss Baillie, who lives in North London, would not confirm or deny whether she had ever had a sexual relationship with Brand.

But the comedian is nominated as her ‘Top Friend’ on her MySpace page and he has mentioned her Gothic performance group on air in recent months.

Miss Baillie lists her marital status as ’swinger’ on MySpace and includes ‘pretty men with tattoos’ among her interests.

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She writes: ‘I like to party, I don’t care if you call me a waster or even a groupie because I am having more fun than you and living this way makes me happy.’

She recently played a prostitute/glamour model in a TV pilot called ‘Trollops of Threadneedle Street’.

For her dance group she uses the stage name Voluptua – a character in the film Up Pompeii – and has posed for provocative photographs which are displayed on the group’s website.

Satanic Sluts, who have performed at the Glastonbury Festival, have dance routines which include a ‘cheerleader massacre, voodoo sacrifice, vampire brutality and much much more’ according to their website.

It adds: ‘Keep a look-out if you are hungry for some blood, guts, gore, sexy striptease and slutty activity.’

She is believed to be in discussions to sell her story.

 

“John Beyer, of Mediawatch UK, said the two stars should be taken off air while an investigation takes place.”

Aww is that all? Come on you can do better than that Johnny Boy! Two of the most well known TV personalities and the ‘orrible BBC causing a national outrage and that’s all he can muster up! It’s not like he doesn’t need the publicity.

Notice how the views of a Tory are put first. Never put it past the Daily Mail to give them free publicity.

The BBC should apologise and Brand and Ross should apologise for what was a childish and stupid prank. But the Daily Mail is trying to push the furore levels right up to boost their own agenda against the “lefty librel politcally correct types” who run the BBC.

Katy Perry sticks it to The Scum with spoon gag

Katy Perry has got back at The Sun for the outrage they have generated over her posing for a picture with a knife by posing with a spoon. She’s left them this message: ” Dear Sun:  You deserve a time out. Your “journalistic” approach has half the soul of the National Enquirer. Shame on you.”

Natrually The Sun and enraged and have wheeled out the families of knife crime victims to paint Perry as a monster and call for her to be dropped as presenter of the MTV awards.From The Sun:

Katy pokes fun at knife storm

Cheek … Katy poses with spoon on her website

Exclusive

Katy pokes fun at knife storm

By ANTHONY FRANCE
Crime Reporter

Published: Today

COCKY pop star Katy Perry enraged families of young murder victims last night by making fun of the sickening picture of her posing with a flick-knife.

The I Kissed A Girl singer was slammed when a shot of her wielding a lethal 3in blade appeared on the internet the day Joseph Lappin, 16, was stabbed to death.

But Californian Perry, 23, has responded by mocking the uproar — and posing with a spoon instead.

 

Shamed … Katy pictured
with knife

 

The caption on KatyPerry.com reads: “But I do condone eating ice cream with a very large spoon.”

Furious Richard Taylor, 59, whose son Damilola, ten, was murdered, raged: “She has lost all integrity by this.

“It would have been better for her to have apologised. Youngsters would have seen that and taken it as something positive. Instead she has decided to challenge us.”

 

Dump

 

Perry is to host the MTV Europe Music Awards in Liverpool on Thursday, November 6 — a few miles from where Joseph was stabbed last week.

But crime victims’ families want MTV to dump her from the show, where she is up for two awards.

Paul Bowman, 45, dad of murdered model Sally Anne Bowman, 18, said: “MTV should pull this woman off air. She shouldn’t be rewarded with an appearance before billions of youngsters. She’s a bad role model.”

 

 

Sylvia Lancaster, 52, whose daughter Sophie, 20, was killed in Bacup, Lancs, for being a Goth said: “It’s tasteless. She shouldn’t be allowed to perform in Liverpool considering that poor lad was stabbed to death only a few days ago.”

Nearly 50 teenagers have been murdered in Britain this year, with 27 in London alone.

A source said that the knife photo shoot “was done to give Katy more of a sexy, harder edge”.

 

“It’s tasteless. She shouldn’t be allowed to perform in Liverpool considering that poor lad was stabbed to death only a few days ago.”

But Katy Perry hasen’t stabbed anyone to death! The way people are going on anyone think she was a knife criminal.

Emotional quotes like this are being used to further paint Katy Perry as a monster. The message that The Sun is trying to put out is that she doesn’t care about victims of knife crime and mocks the pain and suffering of their families.

The Sun are going all out to further attack Katy Perry after she dared to get back at them! They are more or less trying to paint her as the devil incarnate who’s responsible for knife crime.

Most of Perry’s fans will see this as a laugh and as Perry getting back at those who are trying to attack her and make outrage out of fuck all.

Of course The Scum would love Perry to be dropped from the MTV awards as it would give them another story to write.

“It would have been better for her to have apologised. Youngsters would have seen that and taken it as something positive. Instead she has decided to challenge us.”

No Mr Taylor she has decided to challenge shit rag bag “newspapers” like The Sun who have been generating outrage to make a story out of nothing to sell their rubbish to the public.

Yes, yes youngsters who’s lives are so empty and meaningless that they feel they have to walk the streets carrying knives will feel so much more postitive about things if a pop star would apologise for a stupid picture.

The families of knife crime victims have been sucked into a war between The Sun and Katy Perry which was started by The Sun digging up a picture of her that was taken THREE years ago (and was subsenquently never used as an album cover) in attempt to smear her and ruin her career!

They should realise they are being used as pawns!

 

(In an hysterical bit of irony The Sun print a picture today of Sean Connery as James Bond holding a gun and smiling. Glamourising and condoning gun crime anyone? Oh no because Mr Connery is a national insitution!)

Swearing on TV is out of control says John “Meyer”

Lol! Beyer should be mightily fucked off The Sunday Telegraph spelt
his name wrong.

From The Sunday Telegraph courtesy of the Melon Farmers:

Swearing on television is out of control

Campaigners have claimed that swearing on television is “out of
control” after a Sunday Telegraph investigation found widespread use
of expletives in programmes broadcast just after the watershed.

By Roya Nikkhah, Arts Correspondent

The findings brought calls to curb the use of bad language on air and
allegations that broadcasters are ignoring public opinion.

In the investigation, 25 programmes shown on the five terrestrial
television channels between October 17 and October 23 were monitored
for their use of swear words. All started between 9pm, the official
watershed, and 10.35pm.

In some cases, swearing began only minutes after the watershed, when
young children could still have been watching. In all, f*** and its
derivatives was used 88 times, s*** 26 times and p*** 13 times.

Among the worst offenders was last week’s episode of Jamie’s Ministry
of Food, the Channel 4 series following attempts by the chef Jamie
Oliver to encourage the people of Rotherham to cook healthy food. The
programme, which aired at 9pm on Tuesday, featured the f-word 23
times.

Another programme with a high expletive count was BBC 1’s Traffic
Cops, broadcast on Monday at 9pm, where the f-word and its
derivatives were used 20 times. One scene showed a drunken man who
had been arrested for fighting swear repeatedly at a police officer.
On Natural Born Sellers, ITV’s answer to The Apprentice, broadcast on
Thursday at 9pm, the f-word was used 19 times.

Campaigners say that with the widespread use of recording equipment
and of online television viewing, the concept of the watershed is
being brought into question.

While BBC programmes are subject to the watershed restriction when
they are shown on terrestrial television, they can be accessed 24
hours a day on the BBC’s iPlayer service, where children are able to
bypass age restrictions by simply ticking a box to say there are over
16.

John Meyer, the director of Mediawatch-UK, the pressure group,
described the findings as “appalling”. “The use of bad language on
television is now completely out of control,” he said. “The fact is
the public is offended by bad language but broadcasters are doing
nothing to respond to that concern – instead they are burying their
heads in the sand and stretching the regulations to the very limit.

“Obviously there are still plenty of young viewers tuning in after
9pm, so why do broadcasters think that so many obscenities after the
watershed is OK? What is the point of the Government spending
millions trying to improve our children’s language and literacy when
broadcasters are seeking to undermine it?”

Mr Meyer called for the media regulator, Ofcom, to be given greater
powers in overseeing the way online programmes are aired. “It is very
worrying that children are increasingly gaining easy access to adult
programmes online,” he said. “The solution is for Ofcom to have
regulatory oversight over internet downloads, as well as on air
programmes.”

BBC iPlayer and other on-demand services are currently regulated by
the BBC Trust and the independent regulator, The Association for
Television in Demand (ATVOD). The Government is carrying out a
consultation process on proposals to make Ofcom the complete
regulator for all on-demand and online broadcasting.

Ed Vaizey, the shadow culture minister, said: “There is too much
swearing on television, particularly in certain programmes which
people construe as family viewing.

“Broadcasters should take the view that there are still young viewers
after 9pm, and that 9.01pm does not mean an automatic license for bad
language.”

Ofcom’s broadcasting code states that “the most offensive language
must not be broadcast before the watershed or when children are
particularly likely to be listening”, but a recent poll of television
viewers by Radio Times magazine found that 69 per cent felt there was
still too much swearing on television.

A spokesman for Channel 4 said: “Where appropriate, Channel 4 gives
an on-air warning to flag up strong language so viewers can exercise
judgment in their viewing. All our programmes are made in accordance
with Ofcom Broadcasting Code rules, which also set the watershed at
9pm.”

A BBC spokesman, said: “The BBC has robust guidelines in place making
clear the most offensive language should not be broadcast before the
watershed and needs to be justified by the context.

“Whilst we have a duty to reflect real lives and people, we are very
sensitive about what we broadcast when children are most likely to be
listening, and receive very few complaints about offensive language.

“Parents have a responsibility to monitor what children watch both on
TV and online, but we have introduced an iPlayer lock to help parents
prevent younger viewers from accessing guidance-rated programming.”

A spokesman for Ofcom, said: “Swearing is not banned after the 9pm
watershed. However, when investigating complaints received about
programmes broadcast after the watershed, we do take into
consideration audience expectations of a programme, the size and
composition of the audience, and whether children are likely to be
watching.”

“Mr Meyer called for the media regulator, Ofcom, to be given greater
powers in overseeing the way online programmes are aired. “It is very
worrying that children are increasingly gaining easy access to adult
programmes online,” he said. “The solution is for Ofcom to have
regulatory oversight over internet downloads, as well as on air
programmes.”

“Campaigners say that with the widespread use of recording equipment
and of online television viewing, the concept of the watershed is
being brought into question.”

It won’t be long before they are calling for a ban on recording
programmes and watching programmes online.

“Mr Meyer called for the media regulator, Ofcom, to be given greater
powers in overseeing the way online programmes are aired. “It is very
worrying that children are increasingly gaining easy access to adult
programmes online,” he said. “The solution is for Ofcom to have
regulatory oversight over internet downloads, as well as on air
programmes.”

Meyer…er sorry Beyer wants a watershed for online programmes so
certain shows cannot be downloaded until after 9pm.

Mediawatch UK are using “public concerns” over swearing on TV to
further push their campaign and pressure group.

Mothers Against Knives Being Used For Anything condem Katy Perry

From The Scum:

An anti-knife group has condemed Katy Perry for posing with a knife.
Mothers Against Knives Being Used For Anything said Katy Perry was
encouraging the use of knives and should be publically flogged. The
group also called for all Katy Perry records to be removed from shop
shelves and burned and for any TV channel or radio station which
plays Katy Perry’s songs to be shut down.

MAKBFA founder Mrs Samantha Angelica Mahoon Grason who’s son once
accidently sliced a little bit off his fingre whilst chopping some
cucumber for dinner said “Katy Perry should be prosecuted for
insighting the use of knives. It won’t be long before kids are
stabbing each other with knives and Katy Perry should then be
proseucted for manslaughter! And any radio stations and TV channels
which keep playing her music and shops which keep selling her records
are endorsing her behaviour and endorsing the use of knives!”

MAKBA are calling for a total ban on the use of knives, including for
chopping and eating things with. They want any famous celebrities
caught using knives for anything prosecuted for promoting knife use.

READERS COMMENTS:

I one hundred per cent back MAKBA’s campaign. Katy Perry should be
shot!

Illinformed Ian, London

More power to their elbow. Knives are evil! Ban them all! And ban
Katy Perry!

Reactionary Rob, Manchester

BRING BACK HANGING! HANG KATY PERRY!

Nutter Nathon, Birmingham

We should reserect Mary Whitehouse and Sir Thomas Cromwell.

Daily Mail reader, Kent

The Sun engineer Katy Perry knife pose “outrage”

The Sun and their sister rag the News Of The World have become the self appointed guardians against the “glamourisation” of knives.

They seek out anyone and anything that can be seen as “condoning” or “glamourising” carrying knives or knife crime and slaughter them in sensationalist emotional bullcrap!

And where are the legions of outraged anti-knife campaigners who are up in arms over Katy Perry posing with a knife? They only have a quote from the father of Damilola Taylor.

Maybe knife campaigners are beginning to realise that tackling knife crime is far more complicated than blaming pop stars who pose for silly pictures.

From The Sun:

 

NO 1 IDIOT

By ANTHONY FRANCE
Crime Reporter

Published: 22 Oct 2008

 

ANTI-KNIFE campaigners were outraged last night that chart-topping singer Katy Perry had posed with a blade for a publicity photo.

The 23-year-old star has become a global role model for teenagers.

 

 

But she sparked fury after the image of her clasping the deadly flick knife emerged on the internet.

 

Looking ‘edgy’ … Katy Perry clasps the 3in flick knife

 

 

It fuelled mounting anger over the spread of street violence which has already resulted in the murders of more than 60 teenagers this year — with 27 in London.

Richard Taylor, 59, dad of stab victim Damilola Taylor, ten, said: “This woman’s behaviour is unacceptable.

 

Glamour … Katy Perry

“She must be out of her mind to pose for a picture like this.

Sexy

“There is nothing glamorous about knives — they wreck families.

“Any youngsters seeing her will think it is OK to carry a blade.”

 

The photo was taken by acclaimed fashion photographer Terry Richardson.

Sources on the shoot, which was for Katy’s debut album One Of The Boys, said: “The knife picture was done to give Katy more of a sexy, harder edge.

“But in the end it wasn’t picked as a main shot for her album or website.”

Californian Katy — still at Number 14 in Britain with her huge hit I Kissed A Girl — is the daughter of two Methodist preachers.

She got her big break when Madonna heard her 2007 digital release Ur So Gay and said she was a fan.

 

The Sun have written another piece of sensationalist crap which blatantly links Katy Perry’s picture with knife crime in this country….

As teen dies star poses with knife

By ANTHONY FRANCE
and GUY PATRICK

Published: 22 Oct 2008

 

POP star Katy Perry poses with a knife — an image which sparked fury last night after another teen was killed by a blade in Broken Britain.

Angry critics said 23-year-old Katy, who sold five million copies of her No1 hit I Kissed A Girl, was “out of her mind” for glamorising knives.

 

 

 

The picture emerged as Army cadet Joey Lappin, 16, was stabbed to death by a gang in Liverpool.

 

 

The snap of the singer was taken to make her look “edgy”.

The grieving families of Broken Britain’s young victims could not be faced with a greater — or more baffling — contrast.

Popular Joey, who could not wait to join the Army, became the latest to die when he was innocently caught up in a turf war between teenage gangs in Everton, Liverpool.

 

Tribute to murdered Joey … pals with stems

 

He had made his first visit to a church youth club to watch mates play in a band. But as he and two pals waited outside for a lift home they were confronted by a 15-strong gang.

Joey and his chums — in the wrong place at the wrong time — ran off. But they were chased into nearby parkland and savagely attacked.

Stabbed Joey, who left school in the summer with 11 GCSEs, managed to stagger back to the club, where about 60 youngsters were enjoying a music evening.

Rival

Other kids as young as 11 saw him fall through the door “as white as a sheet” with blood pouring from a chest wound. He lost consciousness and died soon afterwards.

One teenager said: “He went outside. He was stabbed and came back in with blood all over him. He was very pale and was screaming, ‘I can’t breathe’ — it was horrible.”

One of Joey’s pals, 17-year-old Callum Naden, was also stabbed and was in hospital last night with serious injuries. The third friend, another lad aged 17, was beaten up.

Cops said Joey was “attacked without provocation”. Locals said that although there is no trouble at the club, it is seen as a “middle-ground meeting place” by two rival gangs.

One woman who lives yards away said: “They seem to fight over whose turf it is.

 

Grief … Joey Lappin’s parents

“They fight with knives and cricket bats on the grass behind the youth club. They come from other parts of Everton, some of them as young as 13.”

The Shrewsbury House club was set up by the famous Shrewsbury School in 1903 so its privileged pupils could meet and mix with less well-off kids.

These days its main role is to provide a haven in a deprived community.

And ironically, it says its aim is “to provide a warm and safe environment for young people to meet, socialise and have fun”.

Joey, who died just after 8.40pm on Monday night, was a member of V Liverpool Scottish Detachment of Merseyside Army Cadet Force.

Major Tony Kirkpatrick, cadet executive officer of Merseyside Army Cadet Force, said: “He was just an everyday cracking lad who wanted to be a part of everything. Joey would put his heart and soul into everything he did. We will all miss him tremendously.”

 

Tragedy … police and friends by club

 

Joey lived with mum Toni, dad John, sister Bethany, 14, and brother Michael, nine, in Old Swan, three miles from the murder scene.

Weeping Toni, 44, said last night he had never been in trouble.

She added: “The events of the last 24 hours have devastated us. Joseph was a lovely lad, our son and the centre of our family. He went out with friends like teenagers across the country. But he hasn’t come back to us.”

Toni begged the gang members’ parents to help police nail the killers.

She said: “As a mother, I’d like to appeal to the mothers of all those involved. Come forward. You have the power to do the right thing.”

Joey’s pal Danny Coyne — one of many who laid flowers at the stabbing scene yesterday — told how the teenager hoped to join the Army next month.

Danny, 17, said: “Being in the cadets is all he talks about. But he had braces and couldn’t join the Army until they were removed.”

Another pal, Tom Mangan, said: “He was not the type to fight with anyone. He was quiet and shy.”

Joey’s former headmaster Dave Forshaw, of Cardinal Heenan RC High School, said: “What a waste of a fine life. Joe was an intelligent lad with a bright future ahead of him.”

Police are seeking a pair of “main offenders” thought to be responsible for the stabbings. Two teenagers have been quizzed but are not believed to be the prime suspects.

 

There is no mention from any anti-knife campaigners in this story about Katy Perry! It is The Sun delibratly trying to stir up outrage to sell their illinformed sensationalist ragbag of a “newspaper”.

And moreover these articles are writen with the soul purpose of attempting to ruin Katy Perry’s career.

This crap might sell newspapers but it won’t stop knife crime!