Poll shows public overwhelmingly anti-censorship
The UK Polling Report blog analyses a YouGov poll commissioned for the Edinburgh Television Festival. YouGov were one of the sponsors of the festival, and carried out several TV-related polls, the most interesting of which concerned “Taste and Decency” – specifically in regard to Jerry Springer: The Opera.
From the Polling Report:
Only 17% thought that programmes with potentially offensive religious content like JStO should not be shown at all. 67% thought they were acceptable after the watershed, 14% thought they were acceptable at any time. Asked about where they should be shown, 59% thought they were acceptable on any channel, 22% said they were acceptable on satellite subscription channels, only 13% of people said they should never be shown.
The sample size was 2,237. So that works out to 1,812 “sinners” and 290 “irrelevant runts”.
I’ve known this fact for absolutely ages.
Why haven’t the government ?
At over 2,000 that makes the sample quite relevant too: even to the British populace – although I expect someone we all know will be quick to point out that it was likely taken from a biased crowd. We’ll see.
It don’t take a survey to reveal that the like of Mediawatch UK’s claims that they speak for most of the nation are pure poppycock!
Yes they’ve apparently conned the polticians with that story for years.
About time someone did a poll to prove just that!
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