Astonishing Irony

[sp1814]

Sometimes the Daily Mail makes it too easy.

Hands up who can see the beautifully realised piece if irony in this latest Daily Mail attack on the BBC:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2295543/BBC-digital-radio-station-censors-lyric-Elvis-Costello-hit-Olivers-Army.html

Big thanks to The Media Blog for highlighting this.

Brilliant.

[ichkeria]

Brilliant!

[ABerrant]

I would suggest that something occurred between the article first being published at 00:43 and being updated at 07:24 which resulted in Mail Online enacting the ironic censorship. This "something" didn't occur for the similarly themed 'Fawlty Towers' article of two months ago which remains intact.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2266738/Censorship-row-BBC-cuts-racist-lines-classic-Fawlty-Towers-episode.html

[Gromit]

Calling it irony is being too kind.

It's funny, seeing them tie themselves in knots though.

[youngmafbog]

What attack though, it happened didn't it?

[sp1814]

youngmafbog

Sorry?

I don't understand.

[Gromit]

Youngmafbog

I think you might have missed it :->

[FredPuli43]

And the irony is ..? The Daily Mail complaining that we are not allowed to hear the "N word" or a racist remark seems entirely consistent with the perception, of some on here, that it is a paper aimed at covert racists

[AB Editor]

I thought it was the irony of an article about censoring the word, and how this is PC gone mad, while the article itself ALSO censors the word. :)

[FredPuli43]

Yes, but censoring a word, whilst leaving enough of it so everyone knows what it is, is a convention in online news and one which the Daily Mail adopts in every story in print as well. The Sun does it too. They must think their readers don't want others in the family to see the words; why else would they do it?

[THECORBYLOON]

Fred, the link posted by ABerrant shows that the N-word is used in full.

[failedagain]

I don't know what people are seeing as ironic. Is it the fact that they censored the word with 4 asterisks in the headline, that they censored it with 5 asterisks in the second paragraph, or that they show the word in full in the caption to the first picture?

[youngmafbog]

SP, Gromit posts / this latest Daily Mail attack/

What attack, they are reporting what happened. Or is the Daily Mail not permitted to write anything against Blairs Broadcasting Corporation?

[Gromit]

youngmafbog

The Mail are up in arms about the BBC censoring the song, but they then censor it themselves.

// But Elvis Costello’s hit song Oliver’s Army was censored to remove the word ‘n*****r’ when it was recently played on a BBC digital station to the surprise of listeners. //

Ironic. Or Moronic.

[anotheoldgit]

Gromit

/// The Mail are up in arms about the BBC censoring the song, but they then censor it themselves. ///

One could say the same if anyone on AB dared to reproduce what was said, it would be automatically censored by the AB censor.

Would that also be ironic?

[DangerUXD]

come on, we all know that the N word must be censored! Even the DM have grasped that!

[DangerUXD]

anyway it is essential in the song as it rhymmes with "trigger" in the previous line. "One more widow one less, white digger" - doesn't have it really does it!

[Gromit]

// One could say the same if anyone on AB dared to reproduce what was said, it would be automatically censored by the AB censor.

Would that also be ironic? //

Er, no it wouldn't because the result would be accidental, not on purpose like the Mail.

[Mick-Talbot]

anyway it is essential in the song as it rhymmes with "trigger" in the previous line. "One more widow one less, white digger" - doesn't have it really does it!


Is that some sort of joke ^ ?




Only takes one itchy trigger
One more widow, one less white.........

[anotheoldgit]

I think all these words that we are now no longer allowed to write, type or say should be treated the same as objects made from ivory prior to 1947.

If they were published, broadcast or any reference made of them from times past they should be free to be used, but after that certain date (say 1947) they should be taboo, if that's what they must be.



they should be perfectly legal, after that time illegal.

[emmie]

you can't ban the word n****r as how would the brothers address one another... so many films, books, and particularly music use this word, but between black men primarily, what would they use instead...