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Expressive complaints
There are many injustices in the world, so it is good that we have people willing to speak out against them:
Media regulator Ofcom today said it had received nearly 350 complaints about the weekend's Britain's Got Talent shows – but fewer than 20 were about the treatment of runner-up Susan Boyle, who was admitted to a private medical clinic on Sunday suffering from exhaustion.
Ofcom said most of the complaints, 331, were about 10-year-old singer Hollie Steel, who broke down in tears on Friday night's Britain's Got Talent live semi-final.
The story is here.
Posted by Tyler Cowen on June 4, 2009 at 07:22 AM in Music | Permalink
Comments
could this be an indicator of the mindset of the type of people who contact the media regulator, instead of a show's producers/network/etc. to complain about its content? I'd imagine it's a special type of person that would contact the FCC to complain about the rules or outcome of american idol, and their complaints would probably reflect that uniqueness.
Posted by: ryan at Jun 4, 2009 8:13:32 AM
Like the woman who called 911 about not getting enough wontons in her soup, or whatever it was. Most people don't distinguish between government and civil society, some are more ridiculous than others.
Posted by: Andrew at Jun 4, 2009 9:09:46 AM
In Italy they have similar situations with the Italian government: many complaints but still somebody willing to give Berlusconi a second chance to screw it up...
Posted by: M.G. in Progress at Jun 4, 2009 9:55:35 AM
What, these people don't have blogs?
Posted by: eddie at Jun 4, 2009 10:04:35 AM
