Community logo, Click to Return to Homepage
    C4 Forums    Talk4    Discuss4    Upper Class Jolly Fun Season on Channel 4?
Go
New
Find
Notify
Tools
Reply
  
  Login/Join 
One Silver Star
Posted
It seems like Channel 4 are running a season of programmes where upper class eccentrics with media contacts can gain access to our screens to line their pockets.We've had Willie's wonky tonk chocolate marketing mocumentary,last night Old Etonian Bear Grylls of the infamous Born Survivor series, was viewed faffing around everest with wacky engineer Gilo "Won't ever need a Giro" Gardozo.To give credit to the the latter two they did raise a bag of wonga for childrens charity in Africa, but it does appear to me that Channel 4's recent treatment of Class and how it is portrayed falls into two reasonably distinct camps...Upper and Upper Middle Class people depicted swanning around the globe like colonialists and explorers of yore patronizing the natives and generally having bags of fun,in a cosy bubble world where tragedy never strikes, and everyone is beautiful and gets a book deal.Whereas working class and lower middle class people are predominantly broadcast as fodder for rubbish reality TV makeover shows,and subjects for grim documentaries about disease,misfortune,tragedy and weirdness.And it's not just channel 4 the BBC is just as much ,if not more so,tainted with the same bias.Does anyone else see the bias?What do you think?
 
Posts: 22Reply With QuoteEdit or Delete MessageReport This Post
 Previous Topic | Next Topic powered by eve community  
 

    C4 Forums    Talk4    Discuss4    Upper Class Jolly Fun Season on Channel 4?