http://www.thesun.co.uk/news/

Meanwhile, The Sun is backtracking slightly. Well, attacking the government for not having watched the thing, anyway.

>http://www.thesun.co.uk/news/
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>Meanwhile, The Sun is backtracking slightly. Well, attacking the government for not having watched the thing, anyway.

And the spoof goes on...


THE furore over Channel 4's spoof documentary on child sex tells us a great deal about modern Britain - most of it thoroughly depressing.

Yesterday a government minister went on national radio to attack the programme and then admitted she hadn't even watched it.

Truth is, this was a poorly executed spoof - which doesn't deserve the kind of coverage it has received.

Apart from one or two moments, it was not funny. The use of real child actors in the programme was deeply disturbing.

But the reaction to the programme could not have been scripted better by the show's creators.

Home Office junior Minister Beverley Hughes deserves a severe reprimand for going on BBC Radio 4's influential Today programme to attack a show she had not even seen.

Her boss David Blunkett and culture minister Tessa Jowell have also got involved.

On Thursday, when the Brass Eye programme was first shown, only 1.5million viewers tuned in - that's barely one viewer in ten at that time of night.

Big Brother, which was on immediately before Brass Eye, attracted five million viewers.

One of the main achievements of Channel 4 boss Michael Jackson is that he has made the channel different. And, sometimes, very watchable.

He is a risk-taker. We need risk-takers - especially in an era of knee-jerk populism.

The new Home Secretary is no knee-jerk populist; no jumper on bandwagons; nobody's fool.

So when he gets back from his holiday we suggest David has a quiet word with Ms Hughes.

Channel 4's programme was a mistake.

But it is not the government's job to decide what we watch.

Meanwhile the TV news coverage of this affair is beginning to look funnier than the original show.

That's the joke ... the spoof goes on and on ...

You could almost find yourself agreeing with that.
"especially in an era of knee-jerk populism"
Now The Sun are complaining about kneejerk populism. They are taking the piss out of their readers so much it's unbelievable. How people can seriously believe the Sun says what it "thinks" is beyond comprehension.