BBC presenter scandal is sleazy and depressing - but at the heart of this a family is suffering
To the public, there is a sense once again that the big broadcasters find it easier to turn a blind eye to what their stars have allegedly been up to rather than do what is right...
While many on social media are dining out on the salacious gossip of it all, it's worth noting why, once again, this merits talking about.
Yes, "dining out on the salacious gossip" is certainly one way of putting it. It is also worth noting that many online comments suggest a very strong whiff of schadenfreude pervades the digital air. The BBC and its highly paid presenters are sufficiently unpopular for this to be an entirely predictable reaction.
It is, to state the obvious, all rather sleazy. All rather depressing. But as the public pays for the BBC and the fat salaries within it, we do need to talk about this.
Yes again, in spite of the inevitable schadenfreude it certainly is rather sleazy and rather depressing. Not only because of BBC failings, but because it belongs in a patrician past, because is well past its sell-by date.
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If the youngster was underage it should be of interest to the police, if not, it's nobody else's business what two consenting adults get up to in private.
As has been pointed out elsewhere, £35k for a few pics and performances online? That looks more like blackmail.
And as for schadenfreude, that doesn't even begin to cover it. I can think of a couple of presenters that I would pay £35 (I havent got the k!) for it to be them.
Vatsmith - to my mind it depends what ends up being confirmed and what else comes to light.
Sam - apart from sleazy, I'm not sure what it looks like at the moment, but I can think of a couple of presenters too.
You could argue that either the BBC occupies the moral high ground from which it criticises others' poor behaviour - or it doesn't.
Cast your mind back... I was going to mention the obvious scandals (Jimmy Saville, Chris Richards persecution, Lord McAlpine libel, political posts by ex football players) but then I discovered a real trove of information on Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_controversies
I'd argue that the BBC has soldiered on, ignoring scandal long enough for it to pass out of public memory... in my opinion this is not occupying the moral high ground.
Have a look at Grampa's Rambling Head site for similar shenanigans at the Dhublin equivalent of our glorious Beeb, blessed be its name.
It is what you get with unlimited, unaccountable "funding".
DJ - blimey that's a revealing link. Scandals do pass out of public memory, often quite quickly and the BBC seems to rely on that.
Doonhamer - it is very similar. I'm sure he's right about things going sour when accountants began to dictate to engineers and programme makers.
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