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The media in the UK is sick. This is the NEW LABOUR NWO plan to move the agenda away from sensible talk.

To have a programme that HANGS A LIVING PERSON in it - even if it is a drama SHOULD NOT BE ALLOWED.

This is SICKNESS on a massive scale. It makes CHANNEL 4 more disgusting than anything that GARY GLITTER has ever done.

I would hope that every decent person would protest about this show.

I am shocked at how low our society has gone and our media is now not only in the gutter they are basically adding to the sewage that is out there.

Dreadful.

I can't beleive that you don't have to have permission from the person(i.e. glitter) to make such a show.This kind of show is going to encourage the lynch mobs that hunt down the Gary Glitters of this world.

That is attrocious!

I for one will not watch it and will tell others my opinion in no uncertain terms:angry: !

this does seem incredibly irresponsible particularly as a young lad was found hanged just the other day and it's an increasing 'popular' suicide method with accidental deaths from sex thrill seekers.

A short step to actually televising executions. We haven't advanced much as a society or maybe we are just going backwards.

Isn't the programme meant to illustrate what society would be like if hanging was still carried out for certain types of crime? Mr Gadd has apparently been informed so whats the problem?. I'll be watching it. Whats wrong with social experiments on TV? Beats reality crap hands down I say.

I think the idea is to "confront" the viewer with the consequences of what they advocate and would wish on those they so obediently and unthinkingly hate. As such, it's a worthy idea. But I'm very much afraid that the great British public aren't ready for that. Just like everything else it'll be used to titillate. We haven't come on much, you're right. There is a hunger for the real thing, that's for sure... the internet is full of footage of real death and that footage is seen as entertainment. I'm reminded of the lad who jumped a little while ago, encouraged by the braying mob below him and the hits knocked up by the sites that hosted Saddam's execution.
This might, in itself, not be as sick as it sounds. But that won't stop the sick watching it and reveling in the schadenfreude. It shouldn't, for this reason alone, be screened.

How would you feel if you ( Angel ) was the subject of such a programme.

Tony Blair was put on trial on TV. I can see the point of doing that. But I would have totally disagreed if he was killed for starting the Iraq War in a drama.

Maybe we should have a terror attack drama about Gordon Brown getting assassinated.

Maybe we should have a targeted drama about sleaze and allow one of the New Labour big wigs - yes MANDY for instance - get raped and then hung out in FOY off a tree in Herefordshire by the English Defence League and BNP because he is a homosexual. Why not ? It is great TV.

I suppose it is OK for Channel 4 to show a programme about a fictional group of White English who decide to kill all the Asians in their area and set it in say Bradford. For realities sake they could use the names of prominent Asians in the area. This would make it really "real" and allow for a gritty drama.

Why should GLITTER be treated differently than anyone else ? is he now SUB HUMAN - with fewer rights that anyone else in the UK ? So we can all do what we want to him as long as we tell him in advance of our intentions ?

This is disgraceful Television and I AM going to watch it and make sure that I put in a WRITTEN complaint to CHANNEL 4.

In addition I am considering doing a YOU TUBE programme of one of the "above" scenarios - and seeing whether or not it is BANNED by You Tube on grounds of taste - which it should be. To prove that the INTERNET has a higher standard that our current BBC and CHANNEL 4 - both channels preach hatred.

This programme is proof that HATRED is the MANTRA of the BBC and CHANNEL 4. They are part of the problem in the UK and both should be privatised and taken out of the hands of the juntas who have wormed their way in and whose intention is to destroy the UK.

Well said both LO and Angel.I do fear that BR has got the 'wrong end of the stick' on this one.CH4 is owned by the left leaning BBC,not Murdoch and his ilk.It will likely be more of a warning,than an inflammation of public opinion...well hopefully now I've cast my oar.
At least glitter is guilty of downloading CP,his Vietnam conviction cannot be considered safe.Just grateful it was not JK..but then again CH4 are not stupid enough to risk making that while a European appeal is likely to succeed.

Ch4 are not BBC owned IA - and they are ruled by sensationalism more than fairness as I've learned to my cost.

This reminds me of the poem....

First they came for........

I wont repeat it all - because you all know the rest.

Once we start "judging" who is sub-human we go down a slippery slope to playing GOD and playing JUDGE and JURY.

There are people I dislike for what they have done - including Murdoch and Brown and Blair - BUT I would not wish for them to be portrayed in a drama where they were killed. It is not fair and it is not just.

Channel 4 has many of its programmes made by the BBC I believe. I am not sure about exactly who has made this programme - perhaps our more media savvy posters could find this out to see whether there is a link to either the BBC or any political party or even ACPO or the EU ( as has been suggested elsewhere on the net if you do a search ).

I still maintain 100% my original view of this programme. Whilst I believe GG was wrong to download etc. I dont believe he should be hung out to dry as a PANTO VILLAIN for the media. He should have the same rights as BROWN - for both are human beings.

If this was a comedy - then may be I would be willing to concede. But it is not - it is serious drama and by doing this the makers are making a serious point.

They should have created a ficticious character - it could have been boy band member from a ficticious 70s band - and then it would have been art.

This is not ART it is ASSASSINATION.

Gary Glitter - public enemy no.1. Cartoon villain for a cartoon nation.
Whilst criminals & conmen doing real harm - Jack Straw, Tony Bliar, Snake Mandelson etc go from strength to strength.

The Rise Of The Idiots

JK2006 wrote:
Ch4 are not BBC owned IA - and they are ruled by sensationalism more than fairness as I've learned to my cost.

I stand corrected JK,I did think there was a connection,maybe in the past?

BR, maybe it would be a good idea to watch the programme first then have an opinion. Lets not jump to conclusions without having anything to base them on. That wouldn't be right would it?

I agree with you Angel that watching the programme will give us a better idea. But I still cant get my head around a programme depicting a LIVING PERSON and then killing them in the name of art.

It is rather too GUY FAWKES for me - because I believe it could do much damage to the person being portrayed. However much personalities in the public eye have strategies to deal with fame and are used to it - it does seem that this is going too far. I really have to ask again - how would you feel.

If it were me - I would be dreadfully upset and feel very threatened.

I will watch the programme on the 4 player and judge any "official" response or complaint based on watching the programme - because you are right we have to be careful not to pre-judge completely. But the actual fact they are doing this is wrong in my opinion.

Finally - all people make mistakes in their lives. No one is perfect. Some people in the BBC and C4 and press seem to have elected themselves untouchable and above the law that they apply to everyone else. We need to get some perspective on things - Glitter has killed no one - he has not waged war on foreign countries - he has not gone out on the streets of the UK and done a single person any harm as far as I am aware - yet he is facing this sort of ridicule and nastiness.

I am shocked as well that the millions who bought his records and attended his concerts and took much pleasure from him - dont at least stand up for him on this issue. Yes they can be disgusted and shocked by his conviction in the UK - but forgiveness is something that an enlightened population has for others.

In the UK our media is trying to brainwash us back into the stone age or dark ages.

so basically they are 'hanging' someone for looking at pictures ?...and a man responsible for the (hideous) deaths of thousands of innocents in Iraq goes scot free from the imaginary hanging ?

as I said-we haven't advanced a jot. Just technology has-the general public remains like baying peasants open to manipulation by the meejah.

interesting interview on TV last night with Michael Parkinson here is Sydney for the summer.

He's appalled by the modern media..whatever the hell it is..and says the current crop of 'reptiles' will be out of a job in 10 years and are like ferals.

Amoral, hopeless, never do research.

Said he was so happy to be out of the game and can't stand today's so-called "celebrities"..boring, vacuous, dull, uninteresting .... couldn't come up with enough similar adjectives.

He knew the game was up when the producers started to discuss having a 'reality star' on the show :"wouldn't touch them with a barge poll"

veritas wrote:
so basically they are 'hanging' someone for looking at pictures ?...and a man responsible for the (hideous) deaths of thousands of innocents in Iraq goes scot free from the imaginary hanging ?

as I said-we haven't advanced a jot. Just technology has-the general public remains like baying peasants open to manipulation by the meejah.

There's a bit more to it than that Veritas i'm afraid.

Angel wrote:
veritas wrote:
so basically they are 'hanging' someone for looking at pictures ?...and a man responsible for the (hideous) deaths of thousands of innocents in Iraq goes scot free from the imaginary hanging ?

as I said-we haven't advanced a jot. Just technology has-the general public remains like baying peasants open to manipulation by the meejah.

There's a bit more to it than that Veritas i'm afraid.

what ?

If you begin to consider the alleged content of the pictures found and the story behind them, it isn't as simple as you would believe.

It's just so unnecessary.

Channel Four used to be a standard of quality and be brave with it's programming ideas, unlike BBC2, but it's lost itself in stagnant sensationalist television.