Langham to be sentenced today

retired_selvinel · 09-14-2007, 03:05 PM

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Originally posted by Retro:
<BLOCKQUOTE>Originally posted by San:
<BLOCKQUOTE>Originally posted by Retro:
Does anyone know where San's going with this? I've forgotten what his point was now.

I'm just trying to work out what's so particularly heinous about downnloading child porn. as I really can't see it. </BLOCKQUOTE>
Oh well - I've kinda gone through the moralality, exploitation, misery aspects... </BLOCKQUOTE>

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VOICEOVER : Victorian Britain : This man is having sex with a 10-year-old girl. In our reconstruction, she's played by a 25-year-old woman. The breasts are inaccurate. A child's breasts are small, the nipples much like those of a boy. But this isn't paedophilia : the girl's a whore.

GIRL : Can I 'av the money now please?

retired_princesspouty · 09-14-2007, 03:06 PM

Langham didn't write that did he?

retired_selvinel · 09-14-2007, 03:07 PM

Retro at least 6 years out of touch.

retired_katie14 · 09-14-2007, 03:09 PM

I only saw it a few months ago.

Thought it was good, but overrated.

retired_princesspouty · 09-14-2007, 03:09 PM

Oh... I'm sorry I don't watch every single tv programme

Go on then... what is it?

retired_selvinel · 09-14-2007, 03:11 PM

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Originally posted by Neil Purvis:
I only saw it a few months ago.

Thought it was good, but overrated.

Half the pleasure was the mass hysterical reaction from the red tops, The Daily Mail and some politicians.

Retro: Brass Eye

retired_princesspouty · 09-14-2007, 03:11 PM

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Victorian Britain : This man is having sex with a 10-year-old girl. In our reconstruction, she's played by a 25-year-old woman. The breasts are inaccurate. A child's breasts are small, the nipples much like those of a boy. But this isn't paedophilia : the girl's a whore.

Hang on - it's probably the Chris Morris thing I didn't watch about that caused all the fuss.

retired_princesspouty · 09-14-2007, 03:12 PM

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Originally posted by Fat Bhoy Tim:
<BLOCKQUOTE>Originally posted by Neil Purvis:
I only saw it a few months ago.

Thought it was good, but overrated.

Half the pleasure was the mass hysterical reaction from the red tops, The Daily Mail and some politicians.

Retro: Brass Eye </BLOCKQUOTE>
That's the one. I never saw it... and I like Chris Morris too.

retired_selvinel · 09-14-2007, 03:13 PM

Easy to find the whole thing on youtube.

and:

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Around 2000 complaints (and approximately 3000 calls of support) were received regarding the show, and some politicians hastily spoke out against Morris. Beverley Hughes described the show as "unspeakably sick" (while admitting that she had not seen the programme) and David Blunkett said he was "dismayed" by it. Although she did not criticise the show, Tessa Jowell was reported as asking the Independent Television Commission to revise its rules to allow such a controversial show to be prevented from broadcast [5] even though she hadn't watched the actual episode of the show. There was also a vociferous tabloid campaign against Morris, who refused to discuss the issue. The episode went on to win a Broadcast magazine award in 2002 and the complete series, including the 2001 special, was released as a bestselling DVD later that year.

The show caused a furore among sections of the British tabloid press. The Daily Star printed an article decrying Morris and the show next to a piece about the then 15-year-old singer Charlotte Church's breasts under the headline "She's a big girl now" [6]. The Daily Mail featured pictures of Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie, who were 13 and 11 at the time respectively, in their bikinis next to a headline describing Brass Eye as "Unspeakably Sick". Defenders of the show argued that the media reaction to the show reinforced its satire of the media's hysteria and hypocrisy on the subject of paedophilia. [7].

retired_katie14 · 09-14-2007, 03:16 PM

I bet Blunkett didn't see it either.

Langham to be sentenced today

Grab a beer, sit back and relax.

Langham to be sentenced today