Jeremy Kyle
Ok, so I was watching Jeremy Kyle this morning (If you didn't know, Jeremy Kyle is a talk show, where our nation's scum go on tv to say their partner has been sleeping around/ is an alcoholic/ is the baby's dad and he doesn't think so. You know, what Jerry Springer was like, but with no boobs or not as much fighting), and it was on the topic which was talked about in the papers, the paedophilia show.
Basically, Jeremy got a conviected paedophile to come on the show with his partner. Now, I didn't see the whole show from the start, but from what I could gather, The guy had raped his 6 year old girl, or his daughter when she was 6. He was sentenced for x amount of years, but came out after about 6, and his wife/girlfriend stuck by him. They were in a blue room, and they were silhouetted out, so you couldn't make out their face (although you could make out their appearance), and they had voice changers on, they sounded like evil warlords in old movies, like when you set them on fire and they're just about to die, or when you listen to music at a lower bitrate than it should be. People came on the show to talk to the guy, and ask him questions about why he did it, what was going through his head and the like, and why his partner stuck by him instead of staying with the daughter (who I think has dropped contact with them). When I put it on, it was 2 women talking to him, who were abused when they were younger, and after a middle-aged man in a suit in the audience who was in tears because he was in the same situation.
After Jeremy started talking to the women/guy, he started getting really defensive for them, and started hurling abuse at the guy. This is where I started thinking "What the Fuck?"
Ok, infairness, the guy raped a kid, his own kid. That was many years ago, and I'm sure hes had much grief in the past, on TV, in the papers, in the street and in jail, but inviting someone on your show, just to shout at them imo is just a bit..too far? I mean, would you invite someone onto your talk show who had an affair, and kick them to the ground about it?
I'm not taking the paedo dude's side here, I mean, he shouldn't have done it in the first place (although they say the main cause of paedophilia is sexy kids!), but to be invited onto a show, watched by many students and unemployed folk, just to get shouted at even more? Terrible
Discussion time? Perhaps
Basically, Jeremy got a conviected paedophile to come on the show with his partner. Now, I didn't see the whole show from the start, but from what I could gather, The guy had raped his 6 year old girl, or his daughter when she was 6. He was sentenced for x amount of years, but came out after about 6, and his wife/girlfriend stuck by him. They were in a blue room, and they were silhouetted out, so you couldn't make out their face (although you could make out their appearance), and they had voice changers on, they sounded like evil warlords in old movies, like when you set them on fire and they're just about to die, or when you listen to music at a lower bitrate than it should be. People came on the show to talk to the guy, and ask him questions about why he did it, what was going through his head and the like, and why his partner stuck by him instead of staying with the daughter (who I think has dropped contact with them). When I put it on, it was 2 women talking to him, who were abused when they were younger, and after a middle-aged man in a suit in the audience who was in tears because he was in the same situation.
After Jeremy started talking to the women/guy, he started getting really defensive for them, and started hurling abuse at the guy. This is where I started thinking "What the Fuck?"
Ok, infairness, the guy raped a kid, his own kid. That was many years ago, and I'm sure hes had much grief in the past, on TV, in the papers, in the street and in jail, but inviting someone on your show, just to shout at them imo is just a bit..too far? I mean, would you invite someone onto your talk show who had an affair, and kick them to the ground about it?
I'm not taking the paedo dude's side here, I mean, he shouldn't have done it in the first place (although they say the main cause of paedophilia is sexy kids!), but to be invited onto a show, watched by many students and unemployed folk, just to get shouted at even more? Terrible
Discussion time? Perhaps