BBC censors Fairytale of New York
Latest news from the world of dumb censorship: BBC Radio 1 is going to edit out the word “faggot” every time it plays Fairytale of New York. It’s also censoring “old slut on junk”. But, good news for filth fans, “scumbag” stays.
According to the BBC’s own report:
The BBC said: “We are playing an edited version because some members of the audience might find it offensive.”
A Radio 1 spokeswoman said the station’s management had met on Tuesday morning to discuss the issue.
She said they “had made their decision” and would not be going back on it.
But the ban does not apply across the BBC. Radio 2 said it would be playing the full version of the track.
For starters, Kirsty McColl is NOT calling Shane McGowan “gay”, so this is utter nonsense.
Secondly, anyone offended by it deserves to be offended, so the BBC should turn up the volume specifically for those words.
Thirdly, Ronan Keating started all this when his attempt to destroy the song forever included chaning the line to “you’re cheap and your haggard”. Now that was offensive. In fact, they should bleep all the offensive elements of songs by people like Ronan Keating, so that in future his lyrics would be as follows:
We ***** ***
** **** **** **
**** ** * ***********
**** ***** ride **
Superb space for all the family and not an ugly people carrier in sight
1:34 pm
Good post! What next though? At its current rate of progress, the UK will have self-censored itself out of existence by 2023.
At least Auntie Beeb missed the bit about Shane McGowan’s backside being dragged into the equation. Oh, wait, was it actually?
Comment by Jim Dubh