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The claims are baseless, just look at this claim: "This case also showed that complaints are increasingly made by people who didn’t watch the programmes" How
by turnerc 5y ago
The claims are baseless, just look at this claim:
"This case also showed that complaints are increasingly made by people who didn’t watch the programmes"
How can they substantiate this? As per usual on the guardian it's all waffling political nonsense.
- nkoren 5y agoLiterally the next sentence provides strong (if circumstantial) substantiation for this.
- pjc50 5y ago> Just 4% of the 24,500 complaints about the performance were made in the immediate aftermath of Britain’s Got Talent being aired. Instead, the majority followed news stories about the relatively small number of original complaints to Ofcom, which in turn prompted even more complaints, and in turn more news stories, producing a self-perpetuating media outrage cycle. They presumably have an idea what the "normal" lag between broadcast and complaint is; if you can file complaints 24h/day through the website, and most people complain in the hours following the broadcast, then you can determine that complaints made later were news-driven. Heck, I've done this myself once, for the broadcast of the Enoch Powell speech recently.
- turnerc 5y agoI'm not disputing they are news driven but saying that such people didn't watch the programme cannot be proved. Powell's speech was interspersed with commentary, If you didn't listen to it then your complaint should be invalidated
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