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Are some people for real??
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Media Watchdogs are having to investigate the Derren Brown Show where he apparently tied a member of the public up in a strait jacket on a railway line and tricked them into thinking a train was coming after receiving complaints from the public!!!
http://news.uk.msn.co...-documentid=154682834
You've got to be kidding me. It was only a trick. I saw Paul Daniels saw a woman in half but I didn't ring in asking about the woman's wellbeing! Some people are stupid beyond belief.
http://news.uk.msn.co...-documentid=154682834
You've got to be kidding me. It was only a trick. I saw Paul Daniels saw a woman in half but I didn't ring in asking about the woman's wellbeing! Some people are stupid beyond belief.
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Are you surprised by this? I'm not...My Mum complained about this advert...!!!
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I don't think that's the point - I don't think they thought it was real
A lot of suicides in this country come from people throwing themselves in front of trains.
If you were the mother of father of someone who had killed themselves like this I think you might have found it very distressing.
Having said that I don't agree - you can't insullate everybody people kill themselves with drug overdoses and you can't ban ads for pain-killers on that basis.
Typically lazy misleading journalism though - we aren't told how many complaints there were - could have been 2 - but it makes a few column inches and winds up the public in a "what's the world coming to" sort of way
A lot of suicides in this country come from people throwing themselves in front of trains.
If you were the mother of father of someone who had killed themselves like this I think you might have found it very distressing.
Having said that I don't agree - you can't insullate everybody people kill themselves with drug overdoses and you can't ban ads for pain-killers on that basis.
Typically lazy misleading journalism though - we aren't told how many complaints there were - could have been 2 - but it makes a few column inches and winds up the public in a "what's the world coming to" sort of way
That's right Naomi
Did you miss the bit where I said:
//Having said that I don't agree - you can't insullate everybody people kill themselves with drug overdoses and you can't ban ads for pain-killers on that basis. //
The point is that there is a general vague consensus of what is and is not acceptable on TV
I'm not sure that I believe SB could never be offended by anything on TV - but if that's the case he's in a small minority.
You'll always get borderline cases and thats why the complaints comission are there. Now I didn't see the program but I'm also willing to bet that if had been a pony tied to the track or a bag of kittens there would be more than 11 complaints.
And I suspect SB wouldn't be deriding their stupidity for complaining either.
We're funny about animals over here I find
Did you miss the bit where I said:
//Having said that I don't agree - you can't insullate everybody people kill themselves with drug overdoses and you can't ban ads for pain-killers on that basis. //
The point is that there is a general vague consensus of what is and is not acceptable on TV
I'm not sure that I believe SB could never be offended by anything on TV - but if that's the case he's in a small minority.
You'll always get borderline cases and thats why the complaints comission are there. Now I didn't see the program but I'm also willing to bet that if had been a pony tied to the track or a bag of kittens there would be more than 11 complaints.
And I suspect SB wouldn't be deriding their stupidity for complaining either.
We're funny about animals over here I find
"If you were the mother of father of someone who had killed themselves [under a train] I think you might have found it very distressing. "
But by the same reasoning ...
If your child had been killed by a speeding driver, you'd complain about Formula1.
If you were a victim of crime, you'd complain about The Bill.
If your spouse had dies of an illness, you'd complain about the graphic natue of hospital dramas.
Etc, etc ...
Some viewers seem unable to separate entertainment from reality.
I just wonder - should the rest of the population have to reduce its intellectual threshold, just to accommodate the needs of people who insist on watching programmes that they can't intellectually cope with ?
But by the same reasoning ...
If your child had been killed by a speeding driver, you'd complain about Formula1.
If you were a victim of crime, you'd complain about The Bill.
If your spouse had dies of an illness, you'd complain about the graphic natue of hospital dramas.
Etc, etc ...
Some viewers seem unable to separate entertainment from reality.
I just wonder - should the rest of the population have to reduce its intellectual threshold, just to accommodate the needs of people who insist on watching programmes that they can't intellectually cope with ?
