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Re: OT - ISIRTA succumbs to censorship

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James R CurryDec 17, 2018

I feel I can have an opinion now that there's a description of the scenes in the thread.

For the record, the bit in Episode 5 is completely unacceptable. For what it's worth, I think "not offending anybody who raises their hand and claims to be offended" is a bit much. It's not that in 1973 it wasn't offensive -- it's that the people being offended didn't have a voice (and for the most part, were in another country).

Now in the days of the internet and international broadcasting, I think it's completely reasonable to drop the episodes from rotation.

That said -- I'd feel differently if this were a boxed set that was being censored. When you buy a boxed set, you're buying archive programming -- and everything that program contains. Preservation is important, so making it available with a bloody big warning on the box seems to me to be the appropriate solution.

But broadcasting the episodes on a free-to-air radio station where anyone, anywhere in the world might just happen to tune in and listen. Nope -- abundance of caution is the right call.

Yeah, it's kind of a drag for us but... oh well.

On Mon, Dec 17, 2018 at 3:12 PM Mark sirnylon@... [just-a-minute] <just-a-minute@...> wrote:

I assume the problem with ISIRTA S09E06 starts around the 23:20 mark with a sketch about native Americans.

à chacun son goût.

On Sun, 16 Dec 2018 at 15:09, Mark <sirnylon@...> wrote:
Hi all

ISIRTA S09E05 - scroll to about 17:08 to hear the Uncle Remus watermelon sketch.
They end up cooking a character to make him appropriately black for the sketch.
Yeah, I can see why the Beeb woud have got nervous about rebroadcasting this bit.

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James R Curry
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