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a) The point was made very plainly regardless of how implied it was. I don't think the pedantic details of it really matter. b) I care less about the legality
by beeboop 11y ago
a) The point was made very plainly regardless of how implied it was. I don't think the pedantic details of it really matter.
b) I care less about the legality of it and more about the ethics of it
c) Literally the first sentence of each Top Gear presenter on Wikipedia labels them as a journalist. Make whatever label you want for the TV show, the content is largely journalistic. The segment about the Roadster was largely journalistic. The can hide behind the "it's just entertainment" veil as much as they want, but it's a huge grey area at best. Regardless of this, you can still libel and be damagingly deceitful even without being a journalistic program - as far as morals go, it is only slightly less shitty.
- mattmanser 11y agoI'm not sure appealing to Wikipedia mentioning the word journalist is going to win you any points. If you watched Top Gear even occasionally you'd know how rediculous it is claiming that Top Gear is serious news rather than an opinion-based entertainment show. I actually remember a banter they did about the Ford GT that Jeremy owned having to stop at every gas station just to have enough gas to get to the studio. It's not like they're picking on Tesla, exaggeration is a form of comedy and they regularly exaggerated everything in the show.
- beeboop 11y agoI don't see why it shouldn't. Claiming Top Gear is completely devoid of any journalistic content is absurd, and the fact that it is presented by three journalists drives this home. Being on is Wikipedia is irrelevant, the point is they are all journalists and widely accepted and labeled as such.
- mattmanser 11y agoOn the show they are presenters in a comedy driven magazine-style opinion show. That they are journalists elsewhere is utterly irrelevant, also they would more properly be called columnists these days rather than journalists as their work in print now is usually opinion based and presented as such. Even wikipedia splits up James May's journalistic career and his Top Gear presenting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_May#Journalism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_May#Journalism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_May#Radio_and_television https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_May#Radio_and_television There's virtually no mention of journalism on Richard Hammond's page (and no evidence that he actually is one). Jeremy Clarkson was a journalist for actual papers before he started presenting Top Gear.
- Shish2k 11y ago> If you watched Top Gear even occasionally you'd know how rediculous it is claiming that Top Gear is serious news You could say the same thing about most mainstream newspapers and TV channels, and yet...