Channel 4 is insisting it will not hand over unedited Celebrity Big Brother tapes to the police without a court order.
Are they attempting to buy time to erase the incrimination evidence?
If found guilty of inciting racial abuse they would have to pay a heavy price.
C4 is already guilty of attempting to use tactics used by criminals to raise its ratings.
Professor David Wilson, a criminologist at the University of Central England in Birmingham who worked for the show and said: "The producers wanted me to analyse how they could spice things up with my criminologist background - but 10 days was all I could last. I left because I did not I did not think the programme was ethical...."
C4 is attempting to make life difficult for the police.
Why?
If people are found to be guilty of offences as a result of the investigations then C4 will have to pay too.
We all already know that the majority of the offenders are closely linked to C4.
2007-02-05 03:35:56 · 12 answers · asked by kayamat_ka_din 3 in News & Events ➔ Media & Journalism
Perhaps 'Pat M' would like to enlighten us all with examples of "the racism came from both sides".
The answers so far reflect the general sympathy for unrestrained racism.
2007-02-05 03:51:48 · update #1
'MICK B' like to know that these people were chosen by C4. Professor David Wilson, a criminologist at the University of Central England in Birmingham advised C4 on this.
2007-02-05 03:54:34 · update #2
Does 'STIBS' mean 'hide the evidence'?
2007-02-05 03:57:19 · update #3
'Batgirl!' might like to add 'Publicity Publicity Publicity!!' paid for by every racial minority in the UK.
2007-02-05 04:00:54 · update #4
If 'The Mole' says that this was the last CBB 'show' then I would be happy to hear that.
2007-02-05 04:04:09 · update #5
Why were the comments by the 3 wicked witches beeped out by C4? Simply because they were "off-the-wall comment because someone is bored"? Get a grip.
2007-02-05 04:10:57 · update #6
They obviously are! That programme is not live so they would have known full well what they were showing on tv. They wouldnt have shown it if they knew it would get them into so much trouble.. Publicity Publicity Publicity!!
2007-02-05 03:50:17 · answer #1 · answered by Girl 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Don't know, but when governments are trying so hard not to fill prison spaces, seems to me rather silly to be spending vast sums of money to look for people from a crap show like Big Brother to put in them. Especially when it is a stupid show like Big Brother, where you are bound to say something offensive in there and you wouldn't know you were till the end of. Surely it is sufficient that certain people are now considered with less credibility than before going in and certain issues have been recognised. Should all bullying therefore be investigated - cos it isn't happening - unless in the public eye.
They should only investigate if there is made a specific complaint, not look for something in realms of videotape at the taxpayer's expense trying to find some. Otherwise what next? CCTV in our workplaces scrutinised for some off-the-wall comment because someone is bored and the vague possibility someone said something a bit off-the wall?
Don't get me wrong, noone should be bullied whatever their colour, but this whole Big Brother stuff has has too much coverage already.
2007-02-05 11:50:57 · answer #2 · answered by The Mole 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Maybe like everyone else they feel like a mountain has been made out of a mole hill!
Why do police want the tapes anyway? So far as I knew, stupidity isnt against the law, and as for incitement, well I didnt hear anyone telling anyone else to go out and be racist.
If the police want to charge people for incitement to racism, they should try hanging round a few Mosques!
2007-02-05 11:49:43 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 2⤋
This is yet another example of arrogant media people behaving as if they were above the law. I am against censorship - but if sections of the media do not clean up their act they will have to be taught the difference between liberty and license. That will be sad - but it may be inevitable.
2007-02-05 11:41:19 · answer #4 · answered by Tony B 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
simply put, because they dont have to. a free press enjoys the same basic freedoms that you enjoy as an individual. the rules are set up that way because historicaly police and prosicutors can never be trusted to do the right thing when left to their own devices.
2007-02-05 11:47:49 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
No, I think its their way of telling the police to get a grip. This whole thing has been blown way out of proportion. What would be interesting if C4 showed footage of ethnic people bullying white people and see if that causes an uproar. I'm sick to death of all this extreme anti-racist crap.
2007-02-05 11:41:37 · answer #6 · answered by Chris R 2 · 4⤊ 2⤋
The police are more racist than channel 4 and are now trying to show everyone that they are doing something about it. I'm not really covinced about the whole circus.
2007-02-05 12:26:36 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Its absolutely pathetic the whole thing.
its gone too far now,no-one is upset about what was said,the racism came from both sides,it should be dropped.
2007-02-05 11:43:51 · answer #8 · answered by Pat R 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Now it's BB's Tapegate. HOW PATHETIC. This episode is probably going to cost millions of public money in police time. Have they nothing better to do ? BURN THE BLOODY TAPES !
2007-02-05 11:48:31 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
It's just legal protection. It's a smart move for NBC to protect itself that way.
2007-02-05 11:38:13 · answer #10 · answered by ZORG 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋