Bollywood star Shilpa Shetty
Reality TV creates a very surreal diplomatic crisis
Anthony Browne in Bangalore, Ashling O'Connor in Bombay,
Philip Webster and Adam Sherwin
Update: Dec. 14, 2015 – the link no longer seems to work. It
just takes you to “The Times” website…
India lodges Big Brother protest
Blair and Brown drawn into row
Tony
Blair and Gordon Brown mounted a diplomatic offensive to protect Britain ’s reputation in India and the sub-continent
yesterday as a television racism row grew into an international crisis.
Effigies of the show’s organisers were burnt and in Britain
there were 22,000 complaints to Ofcom. The Channel 4 programme had become the most complained
about in the broadcasting watchdog’s history.
Mr Brown, who is on his first visit to India , described the comments on the show as
offensive and condemned anything that harmed Britain ’s reputation as a tolerant
country.
Mr Blair
said little initially. Questioned in the Commons, he said that MPs should
oppose racism in all its forms. But after protests poured in he authorised a No
10 statement saying that Britain
would not tolerate racism in any way. His spokesman said: “What clearly is to
be regretted and countered is if there is any perception abroad that in any way
we tolerate racism in this country.
“What
the response to the programme has shown is precisely the opposite — that there
is no level of toleration in this country for anything which, rightly or
wrongly, is perceived to be racist. The message should go out loud and clear
that we are a tolerant country and we will not tolerate racism in any way.”
The
spokesman emphasised that Mr Blair had not seen the programmes.
Read much more here: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-2553080,00.html#cid=OTC-RSS&attr=Britain
Google profile: https://profiles.google.com/kevindayhoff/
Kevin Dayhoff Art: http://www.kevindayhoff.com/
New Bedford Herald: http://kbetrue.livejournal.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/kevindayhoff
Scribd Kevin Dayhoff: http://www.scribd.com/kdayhoff
Kevin Dayhoff's YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/kevindayhoff
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/kevindayhoff
Kevin Dayhoff Banana Stems: http://kevindayhoff.tumblr.com/
Google profile: https://profiles.google.com/kevindayhoff/
Kevin Earl Dayhoff Art www.kevindayhoff.com: Travel, art,
artists, authors, books, newspapers, media, writers and writing, journalists
and journalism, reporters and reporting, music, culture, opera... Ad maiorem
Dei gloriam inque hominum salutem. “Deadline U.S.A.” 1952. Ed Hutcheson:
“That's the press, baby. The press! And there's nothing you can do about it. Nothing!”
- See more at: http://kevindayhoffart.blogspot.com/#sthash.4HNLwtfd.dpuf
“Each one should use whatever gift he has received to serve others, faithfully administering God’s grace in its various forms.” 1 Peter 4:10
The assemblage of this website is from multiple sources -
The assemblage of this website is from multiple sources -
No comments:
Post a Comment
Note: Only a member of this blog may post a comment.