02/04/2015 – 00:00
With great elegance, the British network BBC has just draw a line defining what can be considered sense of humor and creative freedom or , pure and simple cafajestada. And then to punish with a suspension, dismissed the main presenter of its most watched program in the world, the “Top Gear” that has existed for 30 years and has an estimated global audience of 350 million viewers, being broadcast to 170 countries.
The program about racing is one of the attractions of the network also in Brazil, where it is presented (for now, even on Saturday nights) in BBCHD. The night was suspended in the United Kingdom, the station lost four million viewers. Four million!
Jeremy Clarkson, the presenter whose contract was not renewed, better defined as a kid 14 years trapped in the body of a man of 54, added to the series of coarse and irreverent observations paraded in several episodes, the unusual attack on one of the station’s producers, not separate to it, a hot meal during a shoot in Yorkshire.
According to the Ofcom (Office of Communications) agency that oversees the regulatory sector and competition for telecommunication and UK post office, the “Top Gear” is one of 20 programs that receive more viewers complaints. He became famous episode of offenses against Mexicans, which forced the three presenters (Clarkson, James May and Richard Hammond) to personally take the apology to the Mexican Embassy.
Recently (December 2014) the group was forced to leave Argentina under threat, by driving a Porsche with H982 FKL plate, a clear reference to the Falklands War (which for the British are the Falklands, where there was an attempted invasion in 1982). In an interview with a British newspaper, Clarkson said the board was “coincidence”. That’s all. He added that for the first time, he was afraid for his life and safety.
But they traveled to Ushuaia with that car and those who know the history, you know that that’s where the Argentine ship General Belgrano left for your trip end. Was hit by torpedoes fired from the nuclear submarine HMS Conqueror, and lost 323 of its crew members, mostly young people, by direct order of the British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. Which the presenter Jeremy Clarkon was great sympathizer, so that was one of the only 2000 British invited to the funeral of the Iron Lady, in 2013.
In many countries you have been, the presenters team showed rancidity of the European colonizer in its most pitiful face. And fear also passed in Alabama, United States, when they had the daring idea of writing, one in the car the other, sentences that were provocative to the American South, known to be Republicans, freedom advocates in the use of firearms and prejudiced. In cars, used phrases like “Hillary Clinton for President” “Being gay is cool”, “Country & amp; Western sucks” or “NASCAR is crap”, were shot by the looks of angry southerners, on a highway. When they decide to stop for gas, it gets worse and even the crew is attacked because the owner of the station solves “call boys”. Wheels, to want you, they run it and quickly erase the phrases in the bodywork.
There were many, inside the BBC, who complained of verbal Clarkson distemper. Everything indicates that the whitewash was in addition to the punch Oisin Tymon (who decided not to prosecute him), the statement that the London taxis are run by foreigners who do not know the city and its vehicles stink. He called them “pikey” extremely pejorative word to refer to foreigners. A dictionary even recommends:. “Should not be used”
“We had to draw a line,” explained the director general of the BBC, Lord Tony Hill, who convened an internal investigation into the incident between Clarkson and the producer of the program. Supporting its decision, the British newspaper The Guardian noted in an editorial: “While the BBC has to compete with Skys and ITVs the world, it should also reflect and embody the values of public service.” Something that had already been observed by another employee of the BBC, actor and screenwriter Steve Coogan: “. The audience that the program has just influencing the station’s own image would only be fun if we we were not seen as role models” says Coogan. Phase closed, apparently. The question is what will be the future of the program
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