Big brother

Well, there has been a good outcome of sorts in the Celebrity Big Brother saga. Jade Goody has been kicked off, after a being the centre of a deeply unpleasant series of racially bullying comments directed towards Shilpa Shetty.
There are some good posts about it on Whydontyou.org blog and many other blogs.
Interestingly, it looks as if most bloggers have commented on this issue without watching the programme. I should think few rational people do. Well, who can blame them? I can claim some authority here, having watched in in someone else's house (I have cable so I am luckily never faced with TV choices so limited that the selection becomes Big Brother.) Endemol must be pretty pleased with themselves to have finally managed to find a Big Brother controversy that people with working grey matter could actually care about. Although it's a little distasteful that people's concerns, as expressed in Parliament and by the media, have focused on hiding the true ugliness of British racism rather than actually addressing it.
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