Being Caught: The Art of Media
Forget the fact that following the horrific event at one of Moscow’s Airports where someone thought it would be jolly nice to explode, given that there was nothing good on TV, and he also needed to cancel the milk.
It seems that the news for tonight at least has been more concerned by the sacking of Andy Grey, following both his and Richard Keys, or Chewbacca’s hairy sister’s off air comments about women in football. (Ok, before you fall asleep due to it being about football, please hold, there is a point)
Or so you would think they were off-air. In fact, here’s Sky News’s compilation of the offences in question;
After being exposed to the world via a leak to a Sunday Newspaper, which would have made a welcome change from them reporting about celebrities snorting cocaine off of prostitutes in hotel rooms, oh now wait they still did report that too, oh well, it turns out that wasn’t the end of it as everyone in the world who has breasts (both men and women I should point out) has gone OMG, you sexist pig, it’s a new world girlfriend, I’m a survivor and all other manners of feminism affirming waffle.
Sky of course pretty instructed Andy after watching more video evidence “well now go, walk out the door, don’t turn around now, because you’re not welcome any more.”
Ok, so he said naughty things about women and has been punished as a result. Fair enough.
However, there are a number of questions that came to my mind out of all this;
First of all, the who leaked the footage question, as it had to be someone on the inside, why it may not be entirely clear. After all, yes the chuckle brothers here said naughty things and they may have had enough, but there could have been the motivation of getting rid of Andy Grey for other reasons such as his large wages. I said large wages, honestly you disgust me…
Was this an over-reaction? After all, how often have we all made comments about people behind their back at work? Bitchiness goes on all the time, the sorry part here is that the chuckle brothers got caught. Yet that little fact alone will not matter one jot to the people chugging away beer on the bandwagon. We always seem to forget that whatever race, gender or age, there’s a good chance you’re still going to be an arsehole and therefore carry on this lovely practise anyway.
Just remember not to do in front of camera, micro-phoned up, just ask Gordon Brown about that little point. We love it when that happens.
Who framed Roger Rabbit? Well of course it was Christopher Lloyd. Duh.
Does anyone give a s**t? Well yes, judging from this outrage they do. And just like every news story of this ilk, it will die out in a few days as we go back to focusing on doing naughty, seeing what was left floating in the toilet bowl, and wondering why your fish exploded (perhaps they are becoming terrorists too?).
And finally, is this something that happens in the media all the time? I suspect so, after all there are various horror stories about what things go on in the world of television for example from the lowly runners, or dogsbodies as they should be called that it wouldn’t be hard to believe. But again, you have to work with arseholes some time in your life and that’s that. Deal with it.
Right move along, nothing more of interest to see here.
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