BBC Issue apology over Ross/Brand 'Prank'

easyrider said:
Joining a facebook group is as sad as the 30,000 complainers IMO.

I mean come on what they did was wrong and even they admit it.

So you would be defending people that have admitted guilt!
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It's more a matter of:-
1) The punishment fitting the crime.
2) Trial by Daily Mail.

We're talking about a couple of answer phone messages, to an celebrity who had given the go ahead to be called. Yes they got carried away, but it's hardly serious. Anyone who thinks the way the press have handled this matter, and the outcome of it all, are OK needs a reality check. Seriously...

If we look to the core of this, it's a couple of cynical journalists who basically begrudge some stars getting paid so much.

By all means feel free to sit on your hands and watch the Daily Mail continue its antics. I for one hope a massive group forms outside their office tomorrow and causes havock!
 
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NeilFawcett said:
It's more a matter of:-
1) The punishment fitting the crime.
2) Trial by Daily Mail.

We're talking about a couple of answer phone messages, to an celevrity who had given the go ahead to be called. Yes they got carried away, but it's hardly serious. Anyone who thinks the way the press have handled this matter, and the outcome of it all, are OK needs a reality check. Seriously...

If we look to the core of this, it's a couple of cynical journalists who basically begrudge some stars getting paid so much.

By all means feel free to sit on your hands and watch the Daily Mail continue its antics. I for one hope a massive group forms outside their office tomorrow and causes havock!
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Oh the Revolution!:p

If one sees it as hardly serious what Ross and Brand done.

Then two Media presenters getting suspended is by the same token hardly serious.

The press loves to destroy media giants.Thats what they do.

The press destroyed George Best, Emin, Heather Mills,Jade Goody, I could go on and on and on.

Reporters found a route to oust this dross. What's the problem?

BTW just read that last year at the comedy awards:

"Ross provoked fury among the BBC's senior management by joking during last year's show that his £6 million annual salary was "worth 1,000 BBC journalists".

So they are only getting their own back right? :p
 
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the shadow said:
more than 15,000 people have signed up to a Facebook group supporting Russell Brand and Jonathan Ross, which has a protest planned for tomorrow outside the Daily Mail's London offices.

Fans of the pair are planning a demonstrate outside the Mail's Derry Street HQ in Kensington at noon, followed by one outside BBC offices in the capital.

Called Support Russell Brand and Jonathan Ross, Facebook group has swollen its membership in recent days as Brand resigned from his Radio 2 show and Ross was suspended without pay from all BBC TV and radio services for three months.

The 15,609 supporters who have joined the Facebook group compares with the 34,690 who complained to the BBC about the show following the Mail on Sunday's story on October 26.

Only two people complained after the show was broadcast on October 18.

The Support Russell Brand and Jonathan Ross group is also presenting a petition signed by almost 4,000 people.

"We, the undersigned call on the BBC to turn blame on the Andrew Sachs incident away from Russell Brand and Jonathan Ross as it was only intended as a joke," the petition states.

"We also wish that Jonathan Ross's and Russell Brand's careers will continue just as before this started."

There was also support today for Brand from campaign group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.

Despite angry calls and emails to Peta headquarters suggesting it replace Brand on the cover of the latest edition of the organisation's vegetarian starter kit, the animal rights organization has refused.

PETA director Robbie LeBlanc says that the organisation will stand by Russell: "The cover will have him on it because Mr Sachs, who is also a PETA supporter, has accepted Mr Brand's apology, and that's good enough for us."

Yesterday supporters of Brand and Ross protested outside the BBC Television Centre in west London.
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Long live the revloution, the prepubescent revolution!
 
photoshop said:
This is absolute rubbish!!!!!!!!!!

What ******* is this country ***** ****. Some people need to get a grip the **** ***** ***** ******* the **** **** and ***** ********** the sad ******* ******. And Daily Mail should ***** *********** *** ********** **** the good for nothing ******** ********!

And how this is top story on every news bulletin is beyond me. I mean what the **** ****** ***** ******** the ***** ****** ******* ******!!!!

Seems like everyone is picking on the BBC which is an easy target because of the licence payer yet ******** ******** ******** ****** ****.

GET A GRIP PEOPLE OF BRITIAN
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I've read this post 3 times and I'm still not sure what this guy's fuming at, the prank itself or the reaction to it.
 
Ross appeared at the British Comedy Awards, where he joked his salary meant he was "worth 1,000 BBC journalists".

The comment was made at a particularly delicate time as the BBC had just announced it was to make more than 2,000 members of staff redundant.

The National Union of Journalists condemned Ross, calling the comment "obscene".


If you are going to come out with that, is it suprising Journalist's where out to get him?


Brand:

Brand, a former heroin addict, has found himself in trouble - and out of work - several times since he launched his media career on the back of a successful stand-up act.

He lost one of his first jobs, hosting MTV Select, when he turned up for work the day after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on America dressed as Osama bin Laden.

The following year, he was sacked from radio station XFM for reading pornographic material on air during a Sunday afternoon show.


But he was never far from trouble - and clashed with Bob Geldof when he presented the 2006 NME Awards.

As Geldof collected an award, he hurled a personal insult at Brand, who quickly replied: "It's no wonder Bob Geldof knows so much about famine - he's been dining out on I Don't Like Mondays for 30 years."

Later that year, Brand fell out with Rod Stewart at the GQ Man of the Year awards after claiming he had slept with Stewart's daughter Kimberly.
He subsequently admitted the claim was false after Stewart confronted him on stage.

Only a matter of time before it all turns sour. So its not the first time Brand has basked in sexual glory to fathers and grandfathers even if one was a complete lie

Its clear from this that both are really up their own backsides.
 
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easyrider said:
Oh the Revolution!:p

If one sees it as hardly serious what Ross and Brand done.

Then two Media presenters getting suspended is by the same token hardly serious.

The press loves to destroy media giants.Thats what they do.

The press destroyed George Best, Emin, Heather Mills,Jade Goody, I could go on and on and on.

Reporters found a route to oust this dross. What's the problem?

BTW just read that last year at the comedy awards:

"Ross provoked fury among the BBC's senior management by joking during last year's show that his £6 million annual salary was "worth 1,000 BBC journalists".

So they are only getting their own back right? :p
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When you feel like adding something worth while to that point, feel free...
 
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