Beyer urges advertisers to boycott Church
The Sunday Express (no link – the self-styled “World’s Greatest Newspaper” has the world’s worst newspaper website) has a piece about Charlotte Church’s show on Channel 4, which has attracted “scores of complaints” about her use of fruity language. Andrew Newman, head of entertainment at C4, is quite robust in his defence of the potty-mouthed Welsh diva:
If people don’t like her swearing they can piss off! I certainly don’t worry about swearing. She’s 20. Anyone who watches Channel 4 on Friday night will know we’re pretty relaxed about that.
Which, on the face of it, seems an eminently reasonable response.
Not according to “Massah” John Beyer, the smut-campaigner from Mediawatch-UK, who accuses Newman of “real arrogance”:
His comments do not surprise me. It’s a scandal that a channel which is a public service broadcaster, that seek to rake off money from the licence fee and enjoys the support of the Secretary of State, can say such a thing. The channel is arrogant in the extreme. I call upon advertisers to boycott this show (and Channel 4 as a whole) and look to their consciences. If we ever want to get rid of yob culture, we have to do something about these programmes. The reason that young people swear so much is because it has been normalised on television.
“Off” is not just the button on the remote which would solve the problems which Beyer and his biddies have with shows such as Ms Church’s – it is also something which he should seriously consider pissing.
Oddly enough, a lot of viewers ARE turning Church off too. See that button works just fine! Maybe Beyer’s one is broken – perhaps we should all chip in and send him a new one?
That man’s sphincters are so tight I doubt whether he has ever pissed in his life.
He would probably consider it crude and disgusting and send a letter to the Daily Hate-Mail complaining about the terrible way the human body has degenerated recently and his bladder should be removed immediately.
Is C4 a public servive broadcaster? I thought it was funded by advertising ad did notreveive any of the license fee money?
It is funded entirely by its commercial activities, but is publicly owned, and has a public-service remit.