- Jan 3, 2012
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I think “audiences wouldn’t stand for that now” was an excuse used by media executives in the 80s to ditch a lot of comics that they personally didn’t like and were embarrassed by but that the audience still found funny.
When the very un-PC Little Britain somehow slipped through the net much later, it found a large and appreciative audience, although I certainly wasn’t one of them. I think the reasoning given was that the black- and yellow-face, mocking of the disabled, and calling an East Asian boy Ching-Chong Chinaman as a punchline was somehow ironic and so ok.
Nowadays, the woke/PC Brigade/loony left/Guardian readers (call ‘em what you like) have decided that trans rights is the hill they’re dying on this year and would go ballistic at the “I’m a lady” sketches. Five years ago, they wouldn’t have batted an eyelid at them.
Why do people consistently lump Guardian Readers in with all sorts of other people in this sort of thing. I am a Guardian Reader and have been for a number of years - about 40. It happens to be one of the better informed and more objective of the Daily Newspapers we have around today and does not just take the views or its narrow-minded owner or proprietor as its editorial line. It is owned by an independent trust.
If you are taalking about the loony left, for example, as people who might have supported Corbyn, the Guardian was openly and repeatedly enormously critical of him long before he ever left the position as leader. If people who were critical of it sometimes were actually ro read it, they might be surprised. And no, I don't take everything I read in its pages as my pattern for life. I quite often read things in there which I would disagree with, but they would always be well-written and thought through, unlike the garbage that one reads in some other places.
And yes, I have read or looked at the likes of the Express, the Mail and the Sun.