The Ross and Brand nuclear fall-out continues unabated despite rolling heads, resignations and apologies of so many involved in this world shaking scandal.
Perhaps people have forgotten the corporation (bbc) has to pander to the whims and whimsy's of all it's license fee payers and not just one particular segment. When said corporation only had two tv channels and smattering of radio stations, with not much in the way of competition; then a one size fits all boot, was all we had to endure and look forward to, and let's hope we don't have to go back to that particular restricted diet again.
I'm a radio 4 listener by nature and enjoy all of it's output, as the majority of it fits in with my outlook, interests and views. To many others it's a station to be avoided until they reach the slippers, cardi and bi-focal glasses stage. If the bbc was providing everything everyone needed then bskyb wouldn't be topping over 9m subscribers.
But in today's world, with so many competing carriers out there, they have to tailor their output across various stations and channels to the particular segment of that market which tunes in.
Surely the worst that can be described about the pairs outburst, is that it's nothing more than a soupcon of bad taste, deserving nothing more than a hearty rapping across knuckles, financial sanction and apology. All of which have been provided - however late.
Let's not forget that after the program aired, only two listeners of the show complained, and nothing more happened until a week later when the daily mail (not a known fan of anything national, except perhaps the grand national) ran with the story. Then we have the prime minister of the country dragged out of a meeting to comment, the opposition parties getting embroiled and over thirty thousand people up in arms at this affront to dignity and taste. The mighty thud of a bandwagon pile-up, must have been heard halfway across the world.
How many of those thousands who wrote in to complain fully listened to the program and not just the repeated 20 second sound bite, or are ardent listeners of the program? I doubt if its a hundredth of that number.
As they've suddenly become busy bodies of the first order, I hope those very same people have written into the fsa and the government, to complain about those financiers costing the economy billions of pounds. Or that those very same people have written in complaining about the millions of people around the world dying due to the lack of something as basic as a tetanus injection, dying for the lack of a few tumblers of clean drinking water. Or the many thousands of homeless in this country, who remain so whilst properties remain unoccupied, the list could go on.
It's all well and good complaining about the lack of standards and morals been paraded before our eyes and ears, and blaming all of society's ills on it. Sadly, the reality of falling levels of rudeness occurred long before it happened on tv, the paper press can hang their heads in shame here to. Monkey see and monkey do, whilst films hand a mirror to society, society hoiks a mirror back.
But unless we want to live in a world where the only things watch-able, readable, or experienced are those which are allowed by the holding reigns of power. then we have to accept some things outside of the norms we might agree with.
A bit like the offended granddaughter taking her side of the kiss and tell story to the sun newspaper!
It's good and sensible having a moral compass, perhaps it would be beneficial if our compasses were capable of pointing in any direction where injustices occur and not just in a select direction or two. But then we'd probably be an entirely different species. There are more things happening in the world that people need to be concerned, heated, enraged about than the misguided mutterings of a couple of aging adolescents!
However, unlike some out there, i don't believe this particular tea storm presages the death of civilisation...
Although seeing a bus emblazoned with an advert for a new film called zach and miri make a porno, i do begin to wonder.
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