TIAL wrote:I realise that this may be called 'feeding the troll', but I'm bored so what the heck.
JonnyYesno, may I politely ask why you are here again? You didn't answer my question last time. Is it to convert us to having a better taste in radio, or do you simply want to tell us why we're wrong in liking him?
Also, what sort of thing do you think he should be replaced with? You've been happy to judge the current breakfast radio DJ, who do you think would be a better, more wholesome replacement?
As you don't ask every newbie why they are here I thought it unnecessary to answer you. Anyway, I'm here because I originally liked Radio1 (275/285 MW) way back to Simon Mayo's breakfast show. Then there was the step change when Evans came in from his exposure on Big Breakfast. Wow, that show really was new and although Evans produced sparks of genius he was flawed in many ways, and eventually went wacko as we all know. That was the start of team-sycophancy and allowed DJ's to get away with a lot of bullying (really ugly public displays of cowardly arrogance). Probably a more tempered version of Evans is the perfect personality for breakfast radio. Riding on this wave of innovation, Moyles arrives with the remit of recreating that chaos and excitement, but he can't. I just don't think he has the quick wit, imagination, charm to keep you enthralled for three hours - and I want my money back. But most importantly he's unfortunatley ignorant and anti-intellectual like so may modern entertainers and although that elbow-nudging laddishness can seem accessible and endearing, it becomes thin very quickly.
What's wrong with expecting better standards of humour, interview, team entertainment from the investment in time you put in to listen. Don't you find it worrying that grown men with experience in broadcasting fall back on fart/boob/knob gags far too often or witter amongst themselves unaware that there's 8m people joylessly subjected to hearing about their mundane domestic arrangements. It's all somewhat depressing that he hears this himself and accepts this as great entertainment, five years on.
So, I'm here (unlike the other recent newbies) to discuss what you guys see in Moylsie and to objectively discuss his good and bad qualities. The most current thread is interesting because it addresses how actions or expressions can subconciously be engineered to be hurtful (if that is the case). If so, what's his motivation in doing so? Is he a closet racist or homophobe? I don't know but his gaffs provide evidence that when being spontaneous he can 'forget' where he is.Of course I doubt he is but he's not aware that those subjects are very serious for a lot of people including some of his listeners who don't want to have their intelligence insulted while driving to work. Plainly nobody here finds this interesting or they want to dismiss such questions as ones that could only originate from a 'troll'. My loss not yours.
Anyway, don't you guys want a better quality of entertainment or does Moyles satisfy all you breakfast radio needs?