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M&S Christmas TV ad ‘offensive’
Posted by: | CommentsMarks and Spencer’s Christmas advert featuring Ashes to Ashes actor Philip Glenister has been branded as sexist.
The Advertising Standards Authority is looking into eight complaints from viewers about the “Christmas wouldn’t be Christmas without…” ad.
Glenister, who played chauvinist DCI Gene Hunt in the BBC show, says: “That girl prancing around in her underwear.”
The French underwear model Noemie Lenoir, who twirls around in a winter woodland scene, is a regular in Marks and Spencer’s advertising campaign, alongside Myleene Klass and Twiggy.
An ASA spokeswoman said eight people had been in contact to complain that Glenister’s comment, coupled with the shot of Lenoir in her underwear, was demeaning to women.
The advertising watchdog will now consider the complaints and decide by the end of next week whether to launch an investigation.
The 50-second commercial also features several other big TV names, including Stephen Fry and James Nesbitt, who each say what they could not do without at Christmas.
In one segment, Jennifer Saunders says “stuffing” and Joanna Lumley, her co-star in BBC comedy Absolutely Fabulous, adds: “…your face, sweetie.”
Trump Network Complaints Reviewed
Posted by: | CommentsDonald Trump is no stranger to publicity. Now he’s in the spotlight again with his purchase of multi-level marketing company Ideal Health. In the fall of 2009 he is going to re-launch the company as the Trump Network. Complaints about this new venture exist, but they mainly have to do with Donald Trump himself, and not with the company’s products.
First among the Trump Network complaints are those who remember what Donald Trump has said about multi-level marketing in the past. Way back when Johnny Carson hosted The Tonight Show, Donald Trump was a guest. He openly mocked the MLM Company Amway, and the people involved in that business.
A couple of years ago, apparently Oprah Winfrey asked Donald Trump what his plans would be if he hit the bankruptcy jackpot again. He said he’d start up an MLM. The audience went crazy booing him. In typical humanitarian form, he said “That’s why I’m up here and you’re down there.” Since he actually bought Ideal Health, I suppose his real estate holdings are still worth a little money. I expect more Trump Network complaints about “The Donald” in the future.
The company is trying hard to make sure there are no Trump Network complaints about distribution. They are crunching numbers like crazy to make sure they have enough products ready when they launch in November.
Trump Network complaints will be aimed from two different directions, since the company is also a network marketing company. They will either come from unhappy customers who buy the products, or from the members of the marketing aspect of the company. If there are strong policies in place in the company before hand, they should not have much trouble.
Speaking of the Trump Network complaint department, here’s my big issue. It’s not with this company in particular; it is with all of internet marketing in general. I don’t think MLM companies give their members the education they need to truly be successful.
To have big time success you need to have a strong marketing knowledge base. MLM companies are not really all that up to date with the latest marketing techniques, and they focus only on the techniques that make the most people make the most money. But there are people everywhere making amazing money using one or two obscure techniques they didn’t learn from their MLMs.
Thanks to the internet, new marketing strategies can literally be created over night. These large companies just can’t adjust their educational materials quickly enough. An independent marketing school can.
Thousands of complaints expected over Nick Griffin appearance on BBC
Posted by: | CommentsThe debate over whether the BBC was right to host the leader of the British National Party raged on until the last moment before Question Time was recorded last night, and is likely to continue today.
Both the BBC and Ofcom, the broadcasting regulator, are expecting a barrage of complaints from viewers who were offended by Nick Griffin’s presence on the show.
Peter Hain, the Welsh Secretary, who campaigned to block the broadcast, said: “This decision could end up blighting the lives of many decent people just because they are not white. The BBC should be ashamed of single-handedly doing a racist, fascist party the biggest favour in its grubby history. Our black, Muslim and Jewish citizens will sleep much less easily now the BBC has legitimised the BNP by treating its racist poison as the views of another mainstream party when it is so uniquely evil and dangerous.”
The BBC has refused to release figures for the number of complaints that it has received as it believes that the numbers have been inflated by political campaigning.
Jeremy Bowen, the Middle East editor, said: “I think it’s fine that people are protesting. It’s a legitimate protest. I think we live in a free society and there’s free speech and, while it’s obviously highly controversial, I personally think it’s the right decision to have him on.”
Strictly Come Dancing: BBC receives scores of complaints over racist remark
Posted by: | CommentsThe BBC has received 63 complaints after it emerged Strictly Come Dancing star Anton Du Beke called his dance partner Laila Rouass a “Paki”.
The dancer issued an apology after the News of the World revealed he had used the offensive term to describe the actor Laila Rouass, his partner on the BBC1 show.
Du Beke reportedly said Rouass, who is mixed race, “looked like a Paki” after she turned up to a rehearsal with a spray tan. Rouass is said to have stormed out of the rehearsal two weeks ago.
The incident has reignited the debate over the firing of Carol Thatcher from BBC1’s The One Show after she called a tennis player a “golliwog”.
Like Du Beke, she made the comments off-air, but in The One Show’s green room in front of some of the show’s guests and staff.
AFA Says It Generated Spike in Indecency Complaints
Posted by: | CommentsThe Parents Television Council has gotten most of the indecency complaint press in the last few years thanks to its full court blitz on the Janet Jackson incident. That led to speculation that it was behind the huge bump in FCC indecency complaints in March, too. It wasn’t.
Turns out it was not PTC but American Family Association, the Mississippi-based watchdog group that ramped up its indecency-complaint profile a few years ago.
The FCC doesn’t comment on its complaints or who has filed them, but the number of new indecency complaints, which had been averaging a few hundred in January and February 2009, soared to 179,997 in March.
Members of both organizations may have a bit of a wait. While FCC Commissioner Robert McDowell pointed out last week to Congress that there were more than 1.3 million indecency complaints “ossifying” at the commission, “some older than my children,” three court decisions relating to indecency await either a decision, or more briefs, and perhaps even new oral arguments.
It has been that legal uncertainty that essentially tied the FCC’s hands, though as a general principle new Chairman Julius Genachowski has given his bureau chiefs marching orders to work through backlogs wherever they can be cleared up.
* News * Media * Big Brother Big Brother prompts 290 complaints
Posted by: | CommentsMedia regulator Ofcom has received almost 300 complaints about Big Brother in the past week, with the majority about an incident broadcast on Friday in which one of the housemates threatened another.
This series of the Channel 4 reality show has been the lowest-rating of any of the 10 series so far and has been relatively quiet in publicity terms, but Ofcom today said it had received 290 complaints about a variety of issues connected to the show in the week up to Monday 6 July.
The largest proportion of more than 200 complaints was about an argument between housemates Marcus Akin and Sree Dasari, which occurred on Thursday.
Tensions had been building between the two, with the pair erupting into a shouting match in which Akin made a verbal threat to Dasari. He was called to the diary room, where he was given a formal warning about his behaviour.
Earlier, in a separate incident, while some of the housemates were completing the shopping list, Akin mimicked Dasari’s accent. Big Brother spoke to Marcus in the diary room where he was told his behaviour “could have caused offence to housemates and/or the viewing public”. Dasari was subsequently evicted on Friday night.
Ofcom is currently assessing whether it will investigate the complaints.
Television Going Downhill?
Posted by: | CommentsSo television has had it share of great shows, such as Third Watch, The O.C (which eventually went downhill after its 4th season) and many others, which gained A LOT of popularity worldwide
But, with all these shows finished, what will we watch on television?
One Tree Hill, one of my favourite show’s, has had alot of rumors spread around that it’s ending after a couple more season.
What are we going to watch if we dont have any hit shows like these?
X Factor’s Dannii Minogue draws almost 4,000 complaints to Ofcom
Posted by: admin | Comments (0)The media regulator Ofcom has received almost 4,000 complaints from members of the public about The X Factor judge Dannii Minogue’s comment about contestant Danyl Johnson’s sexuality on Saturday night.
Ofcom has received a total of 3,885 complaints about the incident.
Johnson changed the lyrics of Jennifer Hudson’s song I’m Telling You, in which the lyrics refer to a male, so that the song from the point of view of a man singing to a woman. Minogue subsequently made a “joke” with Johnson, who has been the subject of tabloid stories suggesting he is bisexual, saying that “there was no need to switch the gender reference in that song”.
The regulator has not yet decided whether it will launch a formal investigation into whether Minogue’s comment represented a breach of its broadcasting code.
The next night on The X Factor, as the host Dermot O’Leary introduced the judges, Minogue took the opportunity to unreservedly apologise for her comments, saying that she did not mean to offend anyone.
She explained that she had been joking with Johnson about the lyric change in rehearsals and that it had “carried through to the show” and that Johnson was not in any way upset by the banter.