[bradcali]

the radio 2 dj Paul Gambaccini says Chris should be sacked over comments he made about Auschwitz recenlty on the show.What do you thik about that?Was Chris out of line or was it a harmless comment made in jest? http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/fe ... ris-moyles

[TIAL]

Whilst it might have been a bit of a silly thing for Chris to say (it's probably an area you just don't touch as a breakfast DJ), his comments have totally been blown out of proportion.
So many people hate Chris for no good reason - they'll look for any excuse to try and get him off the air.

[Munki Bhoy]

Gambaccini also condemned Moyles – who had audience of 7.3 million weekly listeners on average in the last three months of 2008 for his breakfast show – for his apparent homophobia towards the likes of singer Will Young, which he said merely reinforced negative stereotype.

One, there's no actual quote from Gambaccini saying anything of the sort. Typical gutter press.

Two, LISTEN TO THE MAN BEFORE YOU CONDEMN HIM. Isn't Will Young a "showbiz friend of the show"?! Admittedly he hasn't been on the show in a while, but then Will Young doesn't get played on Radio 1!

"I am nauseated by the Radio 1 press office constantly rationalising his behaviour"... so am I, but then people keep having to defend him FROM NOTHING AT ALL!!!

* off Gambaccini.

[Johnny 1989]

Oh look, lets have a go at a DJ that has made a name form himself in such a short space of time I mean come on that was only, I don't know, roughly six weeks ago.

I wonder if Gambaccini feels the same about Ross, I mean he did a far, far worse thing that Moyles' comment THAT WASN'T EVEN F***ING OFFENSIVE

[Munki Bhoy]

He did, he made some comment about Brand being the pet at Radio 2 and how Ross' contract was crippling the BBC.

He always blamed the Iraq war on our poor scores at Eurovision. I find that comment offensive personally. Peoples lives have been lost and others vastly altered in that conflict and he's only concerned with poor scores at some singing contest. I think he should be sacked for such a statement.

There, how do you like it, Gambo?

[Johnny 1989]

He did, he made some comment about Brand being the pet at Radio 2 and how Ross' contract was crippling the BBC.

He always blamed the Iraq war on our poor scores at Eurovision. I find that comment offensive personally. Peoples lives have been lost and others vastly altered in that conflict and he's only concerned with poor scores at some singing contest. I think he should be sacked for such a statement.

There, how do you like it, Gambo?

Oh did he, TBH I wondered where he went after TV-AM went off air, never realised he was on Radio 2 until about 2-3 years ago

I just get bored of these older people telling us youngsters were always wrong & a disgrace, really gets boring.

[GWaites]

Can we not start a campaing for Paul Gambaccini to shut the hell up?

It's not surprising that this is mentioned in the Daily Mail. It's not in the Daily Star as the reporters have difficulty spelling his name - they didn't realise the letter U was in Paul.

[Munki Bhoy]

Isn't it the Guardian that mentioned it?

[GWaites]

The Guardian's mentioned it, now the Daily Mail's jumped onto the bandwagon.

[Munki Bhoy]

Oh right. Not like the Daily Mail to be jumping on bandwagons...

Another thought. If the BBC are so bad these days in defending their highly paid stars, why in Mr Gambaccini still picking up a wage from them? Quit. Maybe then your point wouldn't look so hollow.

[le_moribond]

Must admit I'm worried about this story escalating in a similiar way to the Ross/Brand one. Quiet week for news so far and there's nothing that satisfies the media more than a pointless lynching.

[Andy B]

Have I fallen into a time warp? Didn't we put this to bed ages ago?

[Yudster]

Oh god yes. Whoever revived this needs shooting. Or, to be topical, maybe gassing.

[Andy B]

Shall we talk about the Chris/Aled Currygate affair then?

How about that time he swore on air to that caller. That was on afternoons wasn't it? Let's drag some more of the past up.

[MK Chris]

Ha no that was a Carpark Catchphrase contestant I think. It was on a rare day off, so I managed to hear it.

[Andy B]

Well we could talk about Chris' on air comments that he wanted to rip off another DJ's head and spit in his neck. How far back is that?

[Johnny 1989]

This is going to sound like a blatant plug but it's really not, it's sort of relevant to this:

Well you could go all the way back to the time he was slating the Chatham girls for being too ugly to get layed, or the Jonathan Ross "rank" joke (clip in my thread to see what I mean).

It's not as if he moaned about Auschwitz & Jewish people is it, it was a throwaway comment that wasn't ment to cause offence at all.

Bloody hell if everyone got sacked each time for saying something wrong or offensive unintentionally then no one would be in a job (well they wouldn't in my office anyway)

[arabd]

Sorry if this has been posted before, but thought this was a more balanced article in the guardian, in response to the original Gambaccini piece


http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/organgrinder/2009/feb/19/chris-moyles-paul-gambaccini-bbc-row

[Andy B]

For once a newspaper article that has got it right. A well written editorial I think.

[Munki Bhoy]

Nicely done. Much more like the Guardian a mate of mine at uni would read.

[Johnny 1989]

Sorry if this has been posted before, but thought this was a more balanced article in the guardian, in response to the original Gambaccini piece


http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/organgrinder/2009/feb/19/chris-moyles-paul-gambaccini-bbc-row

An excellent article, shame more newspapers aren't like the Guardian TBH.

[Andy B]

Well the guardian is the only paper with a dedicated media section so it's bound to have journos who actually know what they are on about rather than just printing sensationalism. It's almost a trade paper. Every station I know gets a copy of media guardian.