The Beeb's moral thoughtlessness

Daniel

What an utterly pointless article. There are far more pressing things to be concerned about. Daytime smut? So what?!

Redvers

Your point is what, Theo? It's somehow immoral to mention condoms and sex on daytime TV?

Please grow up.

Simon Denis

There is more joy in heaven, etc. Well done, Mr Hobson. You are becoming conservative, I perceive. A few more "Charles Moore moments" and you'll be voting Cameron at the next election. And yes, daytime TV should be free of smut. It is an apparently small problem which tells us alot about what our country risks becoming - a depraved, disorderly, ungracious dump.

hadrian

For once I agree with you. I too saw this dubiously named entertainment and Anne Robinson's creepily acid tongued comments. Which kind of sums up the level our nation now operates at- swilling around like pigs, fille with sacracsm and hard nosed, cutting 'fun'.
These things may indeed be mentioned on TV but to do so so early on in the evening when youngsters are still around is a disgrace. Little wonder our generation are growing up so emotionally stressed, pressured, sexualised way beyond their emotional development, incapable of forming deep, committed relationships and suffering such awful rates of sexually transmitted diseases. Innocence long disappeared from the smart BBC set.

Councillor G

Hear hear.

I don't mind silly smuttiness on evening tv - I turn over or turn off. Nudity and violence after a certain time is okay too.

But during the day I'd like to be able to walk away from the tv and leave my kids watching without having to worry that there is this kind of garbage being broadcast. Some of us try to maintain a few standards in our homes and we'd appreciate our tv companies having at least a smidgen of principle to help us out.

PGH

BBC editors and producers spend a great deal of their time scouring the world for stories about rape, child abuse, sex education and any other excuses for talking about sex. If there aren't enough stories to satisfy their debased appetites then they devote £millions to making documentaries about stories they've dug up from the past that most people would prefer to forget about.
Perverts are more than usually attracted to working for the BBC and they like to insult us by assuming the rest of us share their tastes.

Paul

Yes, Grow up! That goes for any member of your household, no matter how small, who might have access to the TV on a Saturday afternoon, and might stumble upon what you would deem to be innapropriate for your children to see.

If you want a TV, and why shouldn't you because you pay for the content, then you should realise that you have no choice but to get with the agenda.

Zeig Heil!

Donna

Ha! That's the least of our problems as far as the BBC is concerned.

hadrian

Paul
Some of us on reading your post might be a bitty confused by it. Are you approving the BBC's idea of sleazy fun for even the youngest to imbibe as 'cool' or are you giving them a dose of their own sardonic medicine?
Sorry for being somewhat thick but it ain't clear! Is the 'zieg heil' comment meant to convey that preference for due modesty about sexual matters is seen by the Left as incorrigibly right wing? God help us, as if our debased society isn't sex obsessed as it is with all the physical and emotional fall-out that accompany it.

egh

So it all is grist to the euro-marxist mill, isn't it?

All they have to do is prove that the British have nothing to them above the neck. They seem to be succeeding beyond their wildest dreams!!

Paul

Hadrian,

I just feel that there is a fascistic agenda of sexualisation that we are being forced to accept whatever are our private feelings (which we should be entitled to).

No, the Right belives in the freedom of the individual (men are born equal under God) - which is my view point. I don't think that the term Extreme Right actually refers to any philosophy or any group of people. The Nazis were socialists, the BNP are socialist. The bigger irony is, as you suggest, that the Left would call the Right tyrannical and anti-human, when all that ideology actually springs from their end.

hadrian

Paul,

Thanks for that.
You are absolutely correct of course in your characterisation of what is commonly termed 'the extreme right' as actually nothing other than socialistic Statist Dependency totalitarianism and messianic politics. Good to clarify that; leftists of course would utterly reject such analysis!