East Enders Muslim Storyline

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1 066352/BBC-inundated-complaints-EastEnders-sho ws-Muslim-snacking-Ramadan.html

The BBC received approximately 110 complaints about the screening of this short scene and yet ------

Now the BBC has been forced to issue a statement saying it did not mean to cause any offence by the storyline.

The BBC has received more than 200 complaints about the plot in which a paedophile grooms a 15-year-old girl.

This follows not long after a knife murder on the pre-watershed soap sparked 134 complaints after a dead body was shown.

No mention of the BBC issuing any statement of apology over these two larger complaints, I wonder why?

[WaldoMcFroog]

The BBC charter demands that they keep you occupied getting appoplectic over trivialities in order to stop you getting out into the real world and distracting people with the constant knocking from your jerking knee.

[terambulan]

Whingers......make you sick! Okay to depict a paedo as white.....paedo's are brown/black but unreported in third world as not seen as a serious crime.

[R1Geezer]

No, surely not a Muslim breaking their own rules! They'll be sha66ing children next.

[Gromit]

You have not bee reading your Daily Mail avidly enough AOG

(The BBC) said in a statement: 'Whilst we acknowledge that this was a particularly dramatic episode, we were very careful to make sure that any actual violence was implied rather than explicit, and it was made clear from the outset that Jase's life was in serious jeopardy.

[Quinlad]

Complaints are rubbish.

[anotheoldgit]

Cannot find that particular statement Gromit, but it was hardly an apologetic statement.

[jake-the-peg]

So there was no apology then?

Oh does that mean we get an apology from AOG?

[jake-the-peg]

I know awful

Shortly to be followed by Christians having sex before marriage and Jews eating bacon sandwiches!

There are different degrees of observation in every religion

Half the CofE bishops don't seem to believe in God!

[Gromit]

AOG,

The knife episode statement is here

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1 050837/EastEnders-violence-makes-viewer-physic ally-sick-dozens-complain-gory-episode.html

The Muslim story: You, quoting the Daily Mail, say the BBC has been forced to apologise. The BBC statement quoted is:
'Although Masood is a practising Muslim he is not intended to be representative of the British Muslim experience.
'He's a fictional character with flaws who realises he has let himself down in a moment of weakness.'

This too is not an apology.

So inclusion, when the BBC is asked for a statement about the complains received about these two episodes, you regard one explaination, rightly, as not apologetic, and the one about complains from Muslims as a forced statement of apology.

I think the problem of inconsistency is with you AOG, not with the BBC.

[brionon]

Jake-you say ''Half the CofE bishops don't seem to believe in God!'' -Name one,please.

[jake-the-peg]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/393479.stm

[anotheoldgit]

The Daily Mail report you quoted was dated 30th August 2008.

The article I posted was dated 02nd September 2008. How far are you prepared to go back in history to make an unsuccessful point?

The up-to-date apology was here Gromit,

Now the BBC has been forced to issue a statement saying IT DID NOT MEAN TO CAUSE ANY OFFENCE by the storyline.

The Muslim story: You, quoting the Daily Mail, say the BBC has been forced to apologise.

Neither I or the Daily Mail said the BBC had been forced to apologise, only issue a statement that could be construed an apology. Just more false reporting by Gromit when his back is against the wall.

[Gromit]

AOG,

It is you who is getting a statement and an apology mixed up. Hardly back against the wall, this is about a TV soap.

False reporting? - I do not report I answer questions.

Back to your original question:
No mention of the BBC issuing any statement of apology over these two larger complaints, I wonder why?

The BBC did issue statements, but the Daily Mail did not report them in this latest report (the one you posted).

Whether this was poor journalism or because it didn't support the anti-muslim slant of the report, you decide.

[youngmafbog]

Although an avid hater of the Brown Broadcasting Corporation I have to take my hat off to Eastenders which is addressing issues of our time.

If Muslims object so what, get real it happens and this is supposed to be a free country. Dont like it the p**s off. The same is to be said of the other story lines. Lets not hide the fact is DOES happen. OK not in every hamlet but I bet it does in every city.

We are all human and so will err. If you err too much then either the law or your God will sort you out.

We dont need the selfrightous likes of Gromit to add to this

[saxy_jag]

How many viewers, on average, does EE get per episode? I don't know, but I'm guessing it's going to be several million. And they get, what, a couple of hundred complaints max? Do you think they're really worried about such a miniscule percentage of their viewing population? I think not.

I'm biased, I know, because I'm a die hard EE fan, but hey! This stuff happens, to us personally or to people we know or are related to. It's life. Maybe it doesn't all happen in our immediate neighbourhood like it does on EE, but it does happen. If it takes programmes like this to stop us burying our heads in the sand, then all power to them, I say.