Jeremy Clarkson

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RE: Jeremy Clarkson

(11/03/2015 17:09)wirralbus Wrote:  I do think the BBC management are stuck between a rock and a hard place .

They have to weigh up the situation involving the Producer and have to be seen to be doing at least something even if it is the premature end to this series .

The upper management know they have a money spinner and probably don't want to lose Clarkson to another channel knowing that some of the fans of Top Gear will go with him.

Unfortunately any publicity is good publicity whether it be good or bad as it keeps the name Top Gear name in the public psyche .

I really don't understand why people are defending Clarkson's behaviour. Ok, everyone deserves a second chance but how many times has he transgressed? Eight, nine, ten?

I can think of two incidents where a TV celebrity behaved in a manner that was deemed unacceptable and had his contract terminated. One was when Ron Atkinson made a racist remark about a black footballer and the other was when Andy Gray and Richards Keys made some relatively mild sexist comments, both when they thought they were off air. Both ITV and Sky TV realised that if it retained their services it would be seen to be condoning behaviour that has no place in the 21st century.

Apparently over 300,000 people have signed an on-line petition demanding that Clarkson is re-instated. What does that tell us? It tells us that, unfortunately, there are a lot of people in this country who think that rules and acceptable civilised behaviour are secondary to entertainment.