Bollocks, bollocks, bollocks, bollocks, bollocks, bollocks, bollocks.
The Blogger’s cunning plan to spend the summer with his feet up, wired in to a load of Big Brother news feeds in order to regurgitate tabloid shite as thinly disguised critiques of media values has gone tits-up. Early this morning that daft cow Emily Parr was booted off Big Brother “for using a racially offensive word”.
It seems the Bristolian BB contestant said: “Are you pushing it out, you nigger/nigga/niggah?” to black contestant Charley Uchea, while they were dancing in the living room on Wednesday evening.
This was too much for the media creative producers of Big Brother – the Channel 4/Endemol axis – who are still struggling to understand that real people, their actions and their speech aren’t going to neatly fit into a set of polite guidelines invented by the committee of retired judges and unemployable Labour Party hangers-on of OFCOM.
Various arguments are now raging across the net and media over the use of what the BBC is reporting as “the n-word”. Some argue nigger is a taboo word and that Parr got what was coming to her. Others point out that the word is in fact rather common, particularly among young people, and point to things like 50 Cent’s number one bestselling record Get Rich or Die Tryin’ broadcast permanaently across the airwaves a few years back, which mentions nigga/niggaz about 200 times in under an hour. See for yourself.
Confusing innit?
As for Parr, awarding herself 10/10 for intelligence on entering the house has predictably gone awry. She now finds herself a virtual prisoner of panicking Channel 4/Endemol media creative types as they embark on yet another of their crazed bouts of “news management” to distance themselves from that most horrifying of all accusations for the white middle class liberal – “racist”.
Meanwhile Parr’s parents in Downend have disappeared sharpish, telling The Evening Cancer they are unable to comment “for legal reasons”. What fucking law is that then? When did speaking to the press become a crime?
More likely they too have been persuaded to shut up by Channel 4/Endemol “for PR reasons”. Ho, ho, ho. It’s chaos!
Cheer up – every other blogger in Bristol is in the same boat.
Hey James Barlow, I notice that for some reason you have forgotten to post even a single story or comment on your blog about the outcome of the local elections. Why is that James?
In April you were posting quite prolifically about the elections and taking a real interest – you were after all a candidate, and are chair of Bristol West Conservatives. So how come you haven’t even commented on the actual outcome of the elections and the rather dramatic events at the Council?
Could it be that you are utterly embarrassed by the tactics of your leader who voted the “auld enemy” – the Labour Party – back into power for another 2 years? Could it be that you have no words that could placate your own voters and activists to the fact that you have formed an alliance with Labour? Could it be that you just want the whole thing to go away like a bad dream?
Come on James, let us know the answer to this. Don’t go all coy on us now!
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