03-05-2009, 22:57
m100 Wrote:Divine - don't ofcom have to receive a complaint before they can do anything. If no one complains it can't contravene decency as no one would have claimed it to be indecent. They could obviously 'fix' a complaint but surely they've got better things to do.
If only it was that simple. They usually wait for a complaint, but have been upfront about asking all babe channels for recordings in the past, and have taken action without recieving a single complaint.
Unlike the laws on public decency, not actually offending anyone doesn't count for anything on TV. They carried out a "survey" 5 years ago. Under 200 people were asked their opinion. The result is that opinion of 37 Asian women and 24 Afro-Caribbean women carries more weight than all the readers of this forum put together. I have nothing against Asians or Afro-Caribbeans, but if you deliberately conduct a poll among groups of people well known for strong religious beliefs the result is pretty predictable. And unrepresentative.