Move over, Goody, there’s a new girl in town
Posted on Jan 22 2007 | Tagged as: Words, Media
Channel 4 race row: version 2.
“Channel 4 has become embroiled in a new race row with scores of complaints to Ofcom about racist comments made on its new reality show Shipwrecked, MediaGuardian.co.uk can reveal.
“Lucy Buchanan, an 18-year-old public schoolgirl from York, praised slavery and said she would get a black person to do her ’slave work’.”
So reality TV actually shows some reality and people complain about it. Bizarre.
Some people will have views that others don’t like. That’s no reason not to broadcast them. Besides which:
“A Channel 4 spokeswoman said the comments - which were filmed five months ago - came from a ‘very young woman’ who had led a ‘closeted existence’ and that, after interacting with the other contestants, she changes her view.
“‘Other contestants reprimand her and say they disagree with her,’ the spokeswoman said. ‘Over the course of the series it becomes clear that her views change. It is quite a justified portrayal.’ “
John Milton would have approved, I’m sure.
