I just don't get it
I just don't get it. There was an uproar when Jonathan Ross and Russell Brand did what they did - and fair enough, it was crass - but, day after day, our TV screens are filled by the BBC and other channels with scenes of graphic, horrible, often quite gratuitous violence. That's OK then is it?
Regularly, on the goggle box we see characters getting butchered or, apparently indispensable to any police-related drama, lying on a slab in a recently butchered state.
Stuff like this just seems to have become part of the TV landscape. How? Why?
At what point did images like that become a) necessary or b) entertaining?
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Brian Halford - Brian Halford’s look at Edgbaston.
I dont appreciate the country's biggest advertiser - the Govt - warning me to wear a seatbelt by showing ribs cracking and hearts bursting either.
Quite, Kim! It seems that they have the technology to be really shocking and graphic and offensive now so they serve up these images simply because they can.
Getting back to TV, I wonder if, 30 years from now, people will look back and reflect upon this time and all the images of axes going into heads and corpses being cut up as laughable just as we look back and laugh at the stilted delivery of the early TV announcers.
Only we look back at those times as laughable in a sweet way. I think this era's near-obsession with violence will be recalled as crass and harmful.
Blimey. Feel quite unburdened. Must have a rant on a Monday morning more often...
Bring back The Waltons, I say.
Brian, any news on the fixtures or does the ECB plan to do away with 2009 season by stealth?
Morning Droitwich. An ECB spokesperson informed me last week that she didn't know when the fixts would be out but she hazarded a guess at 'early to mid-December'.
As the uncertainty pertains only to matches to be played by the first touring team I really don't see why the other 99.8 per cent of the fixtures can't be put in the public domain!
Its because TV is run by people my age (and slightly older) who grew up left alone at home by their parents when they went out boozing, being babysat by a video of "Revenge of the splat gore cannibal monster 2"
A personal favourite, #3 was very lame. Only 22000 killings.