Morning!
Coffee-splattered monitor. It must be a Friday headline by Lewis.
Well, its like a Friday, but better.
ITV will not face action from TV watchdog Ofcom over X Factor performances by Rihanna and Christina Aguilera, despite the Daily Mail's insistence that the pair punted filth to wide-eyed kiddies. The two artists appeared on The X Factor Final on Saturday, 11 December. Rihanna performed What's My Name "in a dress which was …
Here it was Friday yesterday but seeing as everything is shut and it's raining heavily I thought I'd pop in while catching up on other news. The upside to the rain is that it seems to have literally pissed on some parades and a few of the easter bunnies with pointed hats are staying indoors. This is good news because it means I might be able to make it to the kebab shop without having to fight my way through huge crowds.
"...the photographs that were published in the newspaper were significantly more graphic and close-up..."
So why weren't approximately 2,000 complaints received against the p.o.s. paper for printing images they agreed were inappropriate in their publication which is (unfortunately) widely available to the entire country?
What a joke.
Post-watershed, the Daily Fail's pictures are fine, so no reason to complain.
Your own fault if you read it before that watershed. It's the big society, you have to take care of yourself (otherwise the Fail would complain of the "nanny state").
/beer because it's a watershed invention.
Also, from page 119 onwards of the same report, one of the pettiest disputes in the history of the world (let alone television) is dissected into 11 pages. Among the classic snippets:
"[Ms Almada complained that] The footage shown in the programmes as broadcast was edited in such a way as to portray her unfairly. In particular, her behaviour towards Coolio in the confrontation over the incident with her shoes portrayed her as unreasonable. [...]
[Channel 4 said that they chose] to exclude footage from the programme broadcast showing Ms Almada's complete reaction to Coolio‟s 'prank', as this included very graphic footage of her retaliating by spitting on Coolio‟s duvet and then wiping her crotch with it. These scenes were omitted because the producers had felt that their inclusion might have exceeded the expectations of viewers in terms of taste and standards."
Talk about complaining without a (third?) leg to stand on...
Did you notice the presenter's first words at the end of the you-tube clip? "So you're going on tour..."
So that would be showbiz pushing the envelope of decency in order to get a reaction, publicity and sales too?
And here's me creating page impressions at el reg....
Bother!
Courtesy of El Reg so i do have an opinion and here it is again just in case your Martian mentality didn't understand the logic.
Both of them can't sing so they have to flog their mutton using sex as the hook. Biggest selling ploy on the planet.
As to whether it was likely to offend anyone, i bet the kids loved it!
Did anyone bother to ask them?
You could see a lot more crotch than this on TOTP (Hot Gossip) and The Kenny Everet show...I don't know what the dance group was called but they did plenty of legs akimbo stuff wearing only lingerie before the water-shed.
I have to say I don't think I was traumatised. Transfixed would be more appropriate!
Rihanna's appearance proved the girl can't sing! Not live at least. Aguilera at least has a set of pipes unfortunately neither of them have a clue about the material they are punting. as for whether it broke TV guidelines, WTF I'd say they broke TV guidelines when they discovered this thread of reality programming and decided to punt it. Manufactured storm in a manufactured teacup, much more important shit going on elsewhere.
Both acts appeared before the 9pm watershed, prompting 2,868 complaints
But when 3 parents complain about seatbelts being worn in a Fucking cartoon they almost ban the entire series !!!!!
That is alot of complaints and yeah i would say its overly sexual acting.
Dont watch TV so dont really give two hoots though.
What's the problem with buttocks? Don't people like them? Don't people like sexy?
Tell those guys to stop being complete a**holes, and just let them watch the thing!
Kids are exposed to much worse things, during daytime. You just have to watch the news, commercials, or movie trailers. Or Dragonball, where you pierce your adversary with a beam of light...
but noooo, no buttocks...
daddies or mommies who complain about a pair of buttocks appearing on tv, should not ever , EVER shower with your kids...
- the content "was too sexually explicit and inappropriate for the young audience of this show".
Were they actually fucking on the "X Factor" then?
I guess that this explains the previous inexplicable (for my anyway) viewing figures for this so-called "entertainment".
Abosolutely right - that is the correct response.
However, parents may also mind the general principle of showing this stuff before the watershed.
A pox on the papers for exaggerating and misleading, but, who thought singing about whores is appropriate entertainment for children, regardless of how explicit the dancing is?
Neither "artist" is appropriate for children, which is fine. After nine.
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Maybe if you're a snowman. Now if Ofcom want to say they don't find anything wrong with a bit of sexual provocation thankyouverymuch, well so be it. But that's definitely deliberately sexual. The argument of whether X is good or bad, is a separate argument to whether Y is X or not.
Not sexual, my arse.
The Daily Fail etc get their panties in a bunch about some buttocks on the telly before 2100, yet many of these gutter rags will have some waif with her whoppers out on page 3 and are themselves owned by porn peddlers.
Hypocrisy anyone?
Allowing a child to watch "X Factor" is tantamount to child abuse, but for entirely different reasons.
Your last paragraph is absolutely correct.
Having once watched "X Factor" for a total of 5 minutes - the cat was comfy on my lap, & I didn't want to disturb her - I soon reached the stage where wading through crocodile-infested streams to turn it off would have been preferable to inaction.
I don't suppose any kiddywinks were corrupted beyond redemption by watching such drivel:- the chances are that because they have parents who are X Factor fans, these little ones have far greater long-term problems than seeing "sexually provocative" singers (?).
Never seen it but, taking Ofcom at its word that the performances WERE sexual and at the limits of acceptability, what was the "editorial justification for the type of costumes that the dancers were wearing, and the style of the dance routine overall".
I believe I'm correct in saying that the X-Factor is presented as a singing talent show and that these were simply guest performances filling-in between rounds of the contest. I'd really LOVE to know how the produces managed to explain why sexually explicity performances at the limits of acceptability by fill-in performers were editorially justified.
Whether people were personally offended or not (and ignoring the pointless "don't they know where the remote is" retards. You're watching prime-time Saturday night family entertainment with the kids. What the fuck is the point of turning it off AFTER they've seen it you freaks?) there are rules in place and OFCOM is there to enforce them.