Aug 13th 2008
By: Russ
By: Russ
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Aug 13th 2008
I was interested to read that the word PIKEY was not considered offensive by ITV broadcaster Martin Brundle. Of course people in live media sometimes say things under pressure and he apologised so fair enough. It was just the once.
But what about if the person has repeated the word pikey twice, and also has denigrated other members of the community, and has been outwardly sexist on a regular basis in the name of surrealist humour. Calling a 17 yr old schoolgirl dirty on air is hardly surrealist humour you would agree?
I speak of course of George lamb, BBC radio6 presenter continually upsets listeners, but the BBC complaints dept will not offer any other cut and paste explaniation other than he is displaying ’surrealist humour’. His attitude was also questioned on BBC R4’s Feedback programme - where director Lesley Douglas explained basically - he was facecandy for women who are not interested in music.
He is no more surrealist than Bernard Manning. What is the next step if listeners [there are many of us - see http://www.getlambout.org.uk - currently 3633 signatures plus a facebook with 1851 members] are getting no satisfactory response. How do we go through your channels.
Our other channel for complaints was the radio6 feedback board which now we find is being constantly moderated and contributors gagged for not always apparent good reason other than our questioning of George lambs views on women and minorities. Whereas he is at liberty to say what he like and get paid by licence payers.
Can you advise
Many Thanks
Lizzie O’Grady