Saturday, January 20, 2007

Big Brother - and the world - is watching...


You'd have to have been living on the Moon to have missed the celebrity Big Brother debacle unfold in the UK this last week.
The show caused drama around the globe when 'celebrities' in the house were accused of being racist to an Indian fellow contestant.
While major sponsors have withdrawn their funding and even the Blair government has weighed into the issue, it has done wonders for the TV ratings of the show.

Hurrah for Channel 4. But to me, it just reinforces why I moved away from Britain.
The lack of racial tolerance and understanding... the Chav culture at it's peak.

I'm not sure if Jade Goody - the 'racist' in question - has been made a scapegoat by a TV station watching plummeting ratings, and a nation in denial about what it has become. But her clearly racist rants and attitude has certainly left a bad taste if collectove global mouths... the irony being she'll have to do yet more reality TV work in order to stay afloat financially.
Infamy... everyone's got it infamy.

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