Post by Teddy Bear on Jul 11, 2015 15:23:02 GMT
There are various issues that are highlighted with the following story concerning the BBC.
- 1. What they consider to be quality programming serving our society and supported by the licence fee payer.
- 2. They employ a woman with the title of a 'social mobility executive'.
- 3. This same woman puts her own son as a presenter of a programme that she headed.
- 4. Judging by the pathetic and offensive humour used by her son we can easily recognise the typical left wing mindset prevalent there.
- 5. The son used part of the programme to promote the record shop run be his brother, her other son.
- 6. The BBC response: A source described it as ‘product placement’, but a BBC spokesman said the suggestion was ‘utter nonsense’. The spokesman said: 'Any suggestion that this is product placement is utter nonsense. The film is consistent with our editorial guidelines.'
- 7. The rest you can judge for yourselves.
Welcome to modern Britain and its national broadcaster, aided and abetted by our 'f**king idiot Cameron' and the rest of our government.
Fury over BBC youth channel that mocks the Queen, calls David Cameron a 'f****** idiot' and promotes drug abuse
By Katherine Rushton For The Daily Mail
A BBC channel called David Cameron a ‘f***ing idiot’, insulted the Queen, mocked religion and joked that viewers should smoke drugs because they are 'cool'.
The online platform was launched in February to develop new talent and engage young viewers in current affairs.
But some content by BBC Raw would offend many licence fee payers, and appears to be in breach of BBC rules on impartiality and bad language.
One show suggests viewers should smoke cannabis because ‘it’s cool’.
Others are politically biased, with host Ciaran Varley praising Labour’s Ed Miliband and branding the Prime Minister a ‘b******’ and a ‘f***ing idiot’.
Christians who oppose homosexuality are accused of hypocrisy as Jesus ‘himself had two dads [and] turned out all right’.
The same programme mocks the Bible with an image of a dinosaur in white robes and a halo, above a tagline about God’s supposed views on sex.
Another film fronted by Mr Varley, 28, argues the Queen should not talk about austerity as she has ‘never done a day’s graft in her life’.
BBC Raw is led by Mr Varley’s mother Cheryl Varley, the BBC’s ‘social mobility executive’.
He presents on a voluntary basis but is paid as an assistant content producer for children’s channel CBBC.
BBC Raw comedian brands Queen 'hypocrite' in online rant
One film, Record Store Day, was supposed to be about the annual celebration of independent music stores up and down the country.
However, it almost exclusively focused on a music shop co-owned by another of Miss Varley’s sons, James.
A source described it as ‘product placement’, but a BBC spokesman said the suggestion was ‘utter nonsense’.
The spokesman said: 'Any suggestion that this is product placement is utter nonsense. The film is consistent with our editorial guidelines.'
MPs called for an investigation into the offensive material.
Tory MP Damian Collins, of the Commons culture, media and sport committee, said: 'This is the type of content the BBC should have nothing to do with, let alone commission.
'I can't understand how this was allowed to happen.
‘It brings the BBC into disrepute … the BBC needs to explain why money from [its] budget has been used to benefit [family of staff].’
Fellow Tory MP Andrew Percy said: ‘This is the sort of output hard-working licence fee payers will be disgusted by.
BBC Raw comedian calls David Cameron a 'f****** idiot'
'If [people] want to produce this sort of trash they should do it on their own money and have it aired on a platform not funded by licence fee payers.
'It's not "cool" or "edgy". It’s just rude and offensive and the producers should grow up.’
Labour MP Helen Goodman added that Ofcom should 'look at whether they have breached the broadcasting code.
'Jobs in the public services should be awarded on a meritocratic basis after an open, competitive process. This is one area where the BBC could clearly look for savings, which they are going to have to make.'
A BBC spokesman said: ‘We are urgently working with the people involved in running the scheme to ensure [BBC Raw] fully adheres to the BBC’s rigorous editorial standards.
'This is a pilot scheme where young people from a range of backgrounds can post their short, personal - and sometimes provocative - films about issues they care about on YouTube.
Miss Varley declined to comment.
The controversial scheme is separate to the BBC’s ‘RaW’ project which was set up to promote literacy.
- BBC Raw was launched to develop new talent and engage young viewers
- Host Ciaran Varley, 28, tells viewers to smoke cannabis because 'it's cool'
- His mother, Cheryl, is BBC's 'social mobility executive' and head of Raw
- MPs have called for an investigation into the programme's material
By Katherine Rushton For The Daily Mail
A BBC channel called David Cameron a ‘f***ing idiot’, insulted the Queen, mocked religion and joked that viewers should smoke drugs because they are 'cool'.
The online platform was launched in February to develop new talent and engage young viewers in current affairs.
But some content by BBC Raw would offend many licence fee payers, and appears to be in breach of BBC rules on impartiality and bad language.
One show suggests viewers should smoke cannabis because ‘it’s cool’.
Others are politically biased, with host Ciaran Varley praising Labour’s Ed Miliband and branding the Prime Minister a ‘b******’ and a ‘f***ing idiot’.
Christians who oppose homosexuality are accused of hypocrisy as Jesus ‘himself had two dads [and] turned out all right’.
The same programme mocks the Bible with an image of a dinosaur in white robes and a halo, above a tagline about God’s supposed views on sex.
Another film fronted by Mr Varley, 28, argues the Queen should not talk about austerity as she has ‘never done a day’s graft in her life’.
BBC Raw is led by Mr Varley’s mother Cheryl Varley, the BBC’s ‘social mobility executive’.
He presents on a voluntary basis but is paid as an assistant content producer for children’s channel CBBC.
BBC Raw comedian brands Queen 'hypocrite' in online rant
One film, Record Store Day, was supposed to be about the annual celebration of independent music stores up and down the country.
However, it almost exclusively focused on a music shop co-owned by another of Miss Varley’s sons, James.
A source described it as ‘product placement’, but a BBC spokesman said the suggestion was ‘utter nonsense’.
The spokesman said: 'Any suggestion that this is product placement is utter nonsense. The film is consistent with our editorial guidelines.'
MPs called for an investigation into the offensive material.
Tory MP Damian Collins, of the Commons culture, media and sport committee, said: 'This is the type of content the BBC should have nothing to do with, let alone commission.
'I can't understand how this was allowed to happen.
‘It brings the BBC into disrepute … the BBC needs to explain why money from [its] budget has been used to benefit [family of staff].’
Fellow Tory MP Andrew Percy said: ‘This is the sort of output hard-working licence fee payers will be disgusted by.
BBC Raw comedian calls David Cameron a 'f****** idiot'
WHAT BBC RAW HAS TO SAY ABOUT DRUGS, POLITICS AND THE QUEEN
Mockery of the Bible and promotion of drugs
‘These Christians, you could call them a bit hypocritical, couldn’t you. I mean, after all, don’t these guys spend half their time worshipping a fellow – Jesus that is – who himself had two dads. I mean he turned out alright, didn’t he? I mean, ‘don’t be gay’ didn’t even make it into the Ten Commandments.
‘I think it is in Leviticus where they talk about something about ‘man who lies with men shall be stoned’. Perhaps that just means that cannabis will be the next taboo legalised.
Voiceover: ‘Smoke weed, man! It’s cool!’
Political bias
‘Perhaps David Cameron was actually saying something about the modern working class man, kind of – reaching out for cultural signposts he could identify himself with. Maybe. Maybe. Maybe he was doing something clever. Maybe. Hmmm. Hmmm. Hmm. Maybe. Or Maybe he’s just a f****** idiot. I don’t know. What do you think?’
‘I’m back in the disabled bogs in work and I’m making the most of it, to be honest, because let’s be fair, places like this are probably going to be slapped with some kind of crazy taxation soon, aren’t they?
‘Why do I say that? Well, because news has just come in today about the, um, about the British election and the Tories have been voted back in with a majority, which defied all the polls.
It is against all the odds that David Cameron has been handed a new contract – not, I should point out, a zero hours contract, which might serve the b****** right.
…Labour voters – for them this is a really disappointing day because things had started to look a bit hopeful. Miliband had started to come out of his shell and look a bit, even sexy and strong, taking pictures of himself with hens and stuff. Even rock stars had come out and endorsed him.’
Insult to the Queen
‘I won’t be the first person to have made the point [about] the not so funny irony of being preached a dictate [sic] of austerity and hard work by a woman who is not only minted – and when I say that, I mean literally minted – but also has crucially never done a day’s graft in her life.'
Mockery of the Bible and promotion of drugs
‘These Christians, you could call them a bit hypocritical, couldn’t you. I mean, after all, don’t these guys spend half their time worshipping a fellow – Jesus that is – who himself had two dads. I mean he turned out alright, didn’t he? I mean, ‘don’t be gay’ didn’t even make it into the Ten Commandments.
‘I think it is in Leviticus where they talk about something about ‘man who lies with men shall be stoned’. Perhaps that just means that cannabis will be the next taboo legalised.
Voiceover: ‘Smoke weed, man! It’s cool!’
Political bias
‘Perhaps David Cameron was actually saying something about the modern working class man, kind of – reaching out for cultural signposts he could identify himself with. Maybe. Maybe. Maybe he was doing something clever. Maybe. Hmmm. Hmmm. Hmm. Maybe. Or Maybe he’s just a f****** idiot. I don’t know. What do you think?’
‘I’m back in the disabled bogs in work and I’m making the most of it, to be honest, because let’s be fair, places like this are probably going to be slapped with some kind of crazy taxation soon, aren’t they?
‘Why do I say that? Well, because news has just come in today about the, um, about the British election and the Tories have been voted back in with a majority, which defied all the polls.
It is against all the odds that David Cameron has been handed a new contract – not, I should point out, a zero hours contract, which might serve the b****** right.
…Labour voters – for them this is a really disappointing day because things had started to look a bit hopeful. Miliband had started to come out of his shell and look a bit, even sexy and strong, taking pictures of himself with hens and stuff. Even rock stars had come out and endorsed him.’
Insult to the Queen
‘I won’t be the first person to have made the point [about] the not so funny irony of being preached a dictate [sic] of austerity and hard work by a woman who is not only minted – and when I say that, I mean literally minted – but also has crucially never done a day’s graft in her life.'
'It's not "cool" or "edgy". It’s just rude and offensive and the producers should grow up.’
Labour MP Helen Goodman added that Ofcom should 'look at whether they have breached the broadcasting code.
'Jobs in the public services should be awarded on a meritocratic basis after an open, competitive process. This is one area where the BBC could clearly look for savings, which they are going to have to make.'
A BBC spokesman said: ‘We are urgently working with the people involved in running the scheme to ensure [BBC Raw] fully adheres to the BBC’s rigorous editorial standards.
'This is a pilot scheme where young people from a range of backgrounds can post their short, personal - and sometimes provocative - films about issues they care about on YouTube.
Miss Varley declined to comment.
The controversial scheme is separate to the BBC’s ‘RaW’ project which was set up to promote literacy.