Damn - you beat me to it. (See below)

Also, your joke is funnier than mine.

This annoys me somewhat. Who are they apologising to?

Not me, I don't want an apology, so the apology should be directed at relevant parties only.

Making them make an apology to everyone is not on.

And what are they apologising for?

Austin Tasseltyne's kick?

Give us a news link.

If yer interested...

http://media.guardian.co.uk/broadcast/story/0,7493,547883,00.html
- C4 must say sorry for Brass Eye

http://www.itc.org.uk/news/news_releases/show_release.asp?article_id=511
- ITC PUBLISHES FINDINGS ON CHANNEL 4'S 'BRASS EYE'

Can't newspapers find a new photo of Morris? There's hundreds of them around if you look.

>If yer interested...

And of course http://www.ananova.com/entertainment/story/sm_391882.html

>Can't newspapers find a new photo of Morris? There's hundreds of them around if you look.

I had image loading turned off in my browser (at work, got to keep network traffic down, otherwise get 'named and shamed' in the log files) so I didn't see it first time round... But yes, that is fairly shoddy.

But where to get a good picture, in such a short space of time - they probably asked all the usual suspects, who've mysteriously deleted all their Morris pictures, to make room for a DivX Nick Drake documentary, to impress a girl. Ho hum.

My favourite bit:

The ITC also expressed concern that viewers "saw what appeared to them to be a succession of scenes in which children were apparently placed in highly inappropriate and harmful situations and significant offence resulted".

Which reminds me a bit of:

Ye Independente Telecinegrafick Commissionary expressed aghastment and much bewilderness that viewers "saw an apparation before them, a succession of projected images so arrayed as to cause the impression that they were at the scene of approach of a grande steam traction engine, apparently placed so that the audience were in an highly inappropriate relative aspect to the scene, and would therefore fear for their lives, as if it were that the metal beast would beare downe on them and smother them in its monstrous bellye. Significant consternation and offence resulted, to such a point where ladies of a slight disposition would fainte and grown men verily crye out for their lives. Messrs Lumiere have been instructed to apologise for their impudence."

Bah!

Rats. No "tracked changes" in the Word Document at the ITC site.

School assembly time again:
http://media.guardian.co.uk/Print/0,3858,4251932,00.html

Are we to assume then that had there been a beefier warning than "takes an uncompromising look... contains scenes which some viewers may find disturbing", and/or had Ch4 put out one of those phone numbers for "those affected by the issues raised in the programme", the ITC statement would just have said "don't mock a moral panic again"?

One scene showed a school walking down the street, as it was meant to be a pervert in disguise. Who the hell saw that and thought the show wasn't a spoof?

Can we demand an official apology from the general public and the media? For making a predictable, knee-jerk dumb fuss that has elevated a disposable but adequate comedy show to the status of an icon of free speech and rebellion. Damn them all.

It made top story on ITN. Is this because they feel their target market requires it to be seen that Justice Is Done? That the evil men responsible of making fun of this decade's sacred witchhunt should be made to say sorry?

Gah.

What woke me up this morning:

"...will be made to apologise for the controversial 'Brass Eye' spoof documentary - personally I thought it was [choking with rage] just APPAULING, I don't know HOW they could possible JUSTIFY showing this... wuwww... [muttering] well, it's just _porn_ really..."

- Sarah "Hic!" Kennedy.

The thing is, some people did find it shocking and tasteless and thought that it went too far, and can justify that opinion rationally, but they're just getting scoffed at and ridiculed by Morris fans, who are less able to justify rationally why they liked the programme or thought it was important. I don't think that's very fair. (Admittedly, Sarah's not really helping, here...)

Fact of the matter is that the only 'disgusting' thing around here is that it made top story on all the news broadcasts, when there are actual real important things going on in the world, some of them virtually on our own doorstep.

>Fact of the matter is that the only 'disgusting' thing around here is that it made top story on all the news broadcasts, when there are actual real important things going on in the world, some of them virtually on our own doorstep.

Yes. The milkman's having a heart attack

>>Fact of the matter is that the only 'disgusting' thing around here is that it made top story on all the news broadcasts, when there are actual real important things going on in the world, some of them virtually on our own doorstep.
>
>Yes. The milkman's having a heart attack

Yawn.

>>>Fact of the matter is that the only 'disgusting' thing around here is that it made top story on all the news broadcasts, when there are actual real important things going on in the world, some of them virtually on our own doorstep.
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>>Yes. The milkman's having a heart attack
>
>Yawn.
>

Well, it made me laugh!