ChatterBank2 mins ago
Astonishing Irony
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.dai lymail. co.uk/n ews/art icle-22 95543/B BC-digi tal-rad io-stat ion-cen sors-ly ric-Elv is-Cost ello-hi t-Olive rs-Army .html
Big thanks to The Media Blog for highlighting this.
Brilliant.
Hands up who can see the beautifully realised piece if irony in this latest Daily Mail attack on the BBC:
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Big thanks to The Media Blog for highlighting this.
Brilliant.
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.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.dai lymail. co.uk/n ews/art icle-22 66738/C ensorsh ip-row- BBC-cut s-racis t-lines -classi c-Fawlt y-Tower s-episo de.html
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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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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