Mediawatch-UK: 0.2% as relevant as they think they are
At the beginning of November last year “Massah” John Beyer of Mediawatch-UK set up a petition “to initiate urgent action to require the Office of Communication (Ofcom), using its regulatory powers, to substantially reduce the portrayal of fictional violence and the use of obscene language on television”.
As the picture above shows, the doughty smut-campaigner was aiming to get 1,000,000 signatures by today. The current figure stands at 2,087.
Ever hopeful, Beyer has extended the deadline to Jan 10th. You never know…
(Thanks to Chris at Clapham.org)
UPDATE: (11th Jan) The final tally was 2,109 – well worth the extension.
If we started a petition to incease the amount of same, do you think we’d do any better?
Hahahaha. I am loving these updates… how to make the foolish look more…. um…. foolish! ; )
Who would decide what even counts as ‘substantially’ reduced, and how would that be maintained in the coming years? Have a quota for each offence factor (and again, what counts?) which is to be shared by every single show on TV at one time?
Has Downing Street ever paid the slightest attention to an on-line petition anyway?
I read somewhere that they had responded positively to one (some time ago) but as to actually “taken a blind bit of fucking notice”… not as far as I am aware.