Ross - Predicatable Journalism

[Trevelyan]

9 O'Clock on a Sunday morning and my piss is already boiling. Now I don't particularly like Jonathan Ross, but this sort of journalism is just incredible. How many journalists were listening to radio 2 this weekend desperate for the guy to make the slightest slip up so they could become outraged. I know it was completely predictable that there would be some stupid story in either the Wail on Sunday or TNOTW today, but still...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7849607.stm

The best bit from the whole thing has to be:

Idiot MP in the News of the World said:

It could also be highly offensive to this woman if she's a real person

If she's a real person? FFS

[The Black Duke]

I have just read this on the Times web site. My blood boiled too.

[rhinochopig]

Perhaps we should start a petition for David Davis to be replaced, on the grounds of gross stupidity.

"On Radio 2 you don't expect X-rated references to sex - and especially sex with an 80-year-old - during the day," - Never heard Wogan's Janet and John stuff then? - Moron!

[Simpo Two]

[quote=rhinochopig]"and especially sex with an 80-year-old"

That's ageist isn't it? I expect if you're 80 it's not digusting!

[Strangely Brown]

rhinochopig said:

Perhaps we should start a petition for David Davis to be replaced, on the grounds of gross stupidity.

"On Radio 2 you don't expect X-rated references to sex - and especially sex with an 80-year-old - during the day," - Never heard Wogan's Janet and John stuff then? - Moron!

There is quite a difference between the crap that Ross comes out with and Janet & John. The latter contains absolutely no sexual content whatsoever, unless YOU put it there.

[voyds9]

Strangely Brown said:

rhinochopig said:

Perhaps we should start a petition for David Davis to be replaced, on the grounds of gross stupidity.

"On Radio 2 you don't expect X-rated references to sex - and especially sex with an 80-year-old - during the day," - Never heard Wogan's Janet and John stuff then? - Moron!

There is quite a difference between the crap that Ross comes out with and Janet & John. The latter contains absolutely no sexual content whatsoever, unless YOU put it there.

Reading the article neither did Jonathon Ross, it was all implied. We can all hear the innuendo but both presenter do it.

[theaxe]

Newspapers are a dying format, the BBC (TV, Website, etc) is a big competitor to the UK press (particularly those owned by Murdoch who competes with the BBC on TV too). The result is that the papers have an interest in trying to bring down the BBC.

I find it amusing that these are the same papers that show naked girls every day and in the case of the Daily Express is owned by a guy (Richard Desmond?) who prints 'Asian Babes', 'Big Ones' and runs a pornographic TV channel.

So the whole Ross thing is just another chance to have a go at what is generally a fine institution.

[Asterix]

theaxe said:

Newspapers are a dying format, the BBC (TV, Website, etc) is a big competitor to the UK press (particularly those owned by Murdoch who competes with the BBC on TV too). The result is that the papers have an interest in trying to bring down the BBC.

I find it amusing that these are the same papers that show naked girls every day and in the case of the Daily Express is owned by a guy (Richard Desmond?) who prints 'Asian Babes', 'Big Ones' and runs a pornographic TV channel.

So the whole Ross thing is just another chance to have a go at what is generally a hugely biased institution.

EFA

Yeha, yeah - I know the (print) press is hugely biased as well - but they never pretend to be anything else.

Edited by Asterix on Sunday 25th January 10:51