Are the BBC sanctimonious hypocrites?

[10ClarionSt]

On Match Of The Day, Gary Lineker said the injury to Eduardo was too severe to let viewers see it, yet you can tune in to the early evening news on most nights and they'll be showing you corpses, or thousands of people who are skin and bone because starvation, or maybe a warning that "some viwers may find theses scenes disturbing". They want to make their minds up and not play goody-goody just when it suits them. You can see the full extent of Eduardos' injury on You Tube anyway. Not just the tackle. So you have a choice. Would you find it disturbing? Or would you look on the basis that it is a news item?

[Whickerman]

I'd imagine it's context.

For instance - the 78 people who complained over a scene in Eastenders where some violence was threatened (and one person knocked over) had their complaints upheld by the regulator as it was inappropriate.

If it was cctv of a real scene and shown on the news i doubt their complaints would have held much sway.

Also, programme editors have a lot of say - it's possible the sports editor would decide not to show it in his show as he found it distasteful.

[andy-hughes]

Showing scenes of people starving is usually do as part of a news broadcast, and it is part of the remit of the BBC to bring us news from around the world, however unpleasant some of those images are.

A football match is a sporting occasion, shown for pleasure, and the sight of someone's leg getting broken in three places is quite rightly censored - plenty of children watdh MOTD - it's not part of the entertainment remit of the BBC to show something as graphic as that.

I have no problem with images of one and not the other.

I don't watch football, so the issue of watching it does not arise.

[daffy654]

Gary Lineker may have said on Saturdays MOTD that the injury was too horrific to show but I think he meant on the daytime shows.He actually showed the tackle and the broken ankle just after he said that.

[delboy3]

Eh?

They wouldn't show it during the match highlights but did show a slo-mo replay in the discussion afterwards.

Seeing the guy's foot snap 90� with a glob of blood & bone spurt out of his sock had me wincing hard.

I've seen worse on the news, like in the 70s when the victim of a car bomb - or what was left of him - was shovelled into a bucket.

You know you shouldn't, but you look anyway...

[jojojojoanne]

i dont think that i would find a football injury disturbing, and you do see worse on the news. The injury looked at in the context of football is a news item simply through the advertising nature of football as a sport.

[daffy654]

I can assure you it was quite disturbing to watch joanne,i'm not a squeamish person but it still shocked me.