User talk:Wotthefact

June 2016
As I've said, the real worry with the removal of King's USA chart inserts is that the BBC has not acknowledged in public that it has done this. People who have paid the TV licence fee deserve better than BBC officials behaving like the officials in Stalin's Russia, who were able to alter the history books at will. The BBC4 announcer did not say "Jonathan King has been removed from this repeated edition because he is a vile pervert who should be strung from the nearest lamp post", so anyone watching the edition with no prior knowledge would have been none the wiser.-- ♦Ian Ma c M♦  (talk to me) 09:36, 26 June 2016 (UTC)
 * Just read the article in the paper about King being innocent of his convictions. Wonder why the BBC didn't carry this anywhere? But also wonder why that kind of thing not added to the Wikipedia article? "Nobody interested" I suppose as opposed to the thousands of obscure Wiki articles about the most uninteresting subjects. Media hypocrisy. Wotthefact (talk) 08:36, 27 June 2016 (UTC)
 * I'm assuming that this was Bob Woffinden's review of his own book in the Mail on Sunday. Strictly speaking, this doesn't say that King is innocent but does cast doubt on some aspects of the case. King seems to be off the BBC's Christmas card list, but Wikipedia cannot control what other media organisations do.-- ♦Ian Ma c M♦  (talk to me) 08:55, 27 June 2016 (UTC)
 * Oh I didn't realise it was a review. I thought it was an article. I did see a review by David Rose in same publication. I will check if there are other reviews or commentary. But anyway surely it counts as "secondary sources". There do seem to be several news reports about Top of the Pops being censored. The Dave Lee Travis episodes are the worst examples of this. The man was cleared of all charges, tried a second time and eventually found guilty of one minor crime, so trivial it warranted less punishment than many traffic offences. Yet the BBC erases all shows he hosted. When will this be corrected? Wotthefact (talk) 09:05, 27 June 2016 (UTC)
 * I was thinking about this over the weekend. If the BBC really must censor up to a third of TOTP episodes because Dave Lee Travis jiggled a woman's breasts twenty years ago, it could at least make the "banned" episodes available on DVD or for download. Jimmy Perry has criticised the BBC for refusing to broadcast It Ain't Half Hot Mum, although it still shows Dad's Army. It Ain't Half Hot Mum is now on DVD and download but you will have to pay to watch it.]-- ♦Ian Ma c M♦  (talk to me) 09:26, 27 June 2016 (UTC)