chrismoyles.net
- Fri Mar 08, 2002 3:53 pm
#5824
Have some people not got better things to do?
this has been taken from:
http://www.dooyoo.co.uk/review/164264.html
It will become apparent very quickly that I do not like Chris Moyles. What is more I cannot understand why anyone would wish to adopt the obnoxious persona which Moyles has, why the BBC think it clever to have a presenter whose style appears to be the antithesis of a good broadcaster and how people can actually listen to him for more than a few minutes without it spoiling a good day.
Moyles style is that of a controversial in-your-face DJ but doesn’t appear to have any particular cause on which to attach his controversy. His outrage therefore seems to feed from anyone with the temerity to be on his show. The successful outrage DJ is usually reactionary which while opposed by a moderate majority does have value from being democratic and legitimate. To have the level of apparent anger and distaste which Moyles has without any focus for that anger just makes him an irritating case for rage counselling.
There is however a worrying aspect to this. Anyone listening to Moyles show may think it is an acceptable method of behaviour to be perpetually rude and sour. That somehow it is clever and cool to be so disparaging of everyone. Moyles is little more than a bully with a microphone. Moyles is that annoying kid at school who pushed everyone around but has now grown fully physically but not mentally. I have to say the fewer people with Moyles attitude in this world the better.
The presenters role on Radio 1 has been built up and diminished at various times. This usually runs as a counter to the relative importance attached to the music. Radio 1 has had its fun phase when the DJs were intimately part of the entertainment through to the extremes of the Matthew Bannister era when it was all about the music (man) and new emerging music at that. In this latter phase presenters were developed whose voices and personas managed miraculously to match the genre of music they were interested in. I say this because I believe Moyles persona is manufactured, what I do not understand is why.
The problem for Moyles will be when the radio public tire of his endless whining, find his humiliation of harmless members of the public distasteful and go elsewhere. With his personality developed as it has been he has nowhere to go. His TV appearances have only served to underline the paucity of his talent and it has to be said he is not particularly pleasing to the eye either. On the recent Question of Pop Christmas special he showed a good knowledge of pop trivia but only succeeded in leaving a negative impression by baiting the opposing team in particular Gail Porter. In years to come he may look back on this as a seminal moment. As Gail Porter and similar people go from strength to strength in broadcasting built on a platform of professionalism and personality Moyles will still be there insulting some hapless caller on the graveyard slot at Has-been FM.
feel free to join up to http://www.dooyoo.co.uk and take the p*** out of the moaning morans
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this has been taken from:
http://www.dooyoo.co.uk/review/164264.html
It will become apparent very quickly that I do not like Chris Moyles. What is more I cannot understand why anyone would wish to adopt the obnoxious persona which Moyles has, why the BBC think it clever to have a presenter whose style appears to be the antithesis of a good broadcaster and how people can actually listen to him for more than a few minutes without it spoiling a good day.
Moyles style is that of a controversial in-your-face DJ but doesn’t appear to have any particular cause on which to attach his controversy. His outrage therefore seems to feed from anyone with the temerity to be on his show. The successful outrage DJ is usually reactionary which while opposed by a moderate majority does have value from being democratic and legitimate. To have the level of apparent anger and distaste which Moyles has without any focus for that anger just makes him an irritating case for rage counselling.
There is however a worrying aspect to this. Anyone listening to Moyles show may think it is an acceptable method of behaviour to be perpetually rude and sour. That somehow it is clever and cool to be so disparaging of everyone. Moyles is little more than a bully with a microphone. Moyles is that annoying kid at school who pushed everyone around but has now grown fully physically but not mentally. I have to say the fewer people with Moyles attitude in this world the better.
The presenters role on Radio 1 has been built up and diminished at various times. This usually runs as a counter to the relative importance attached to the music. Radio 1 has had its fun phase when the DJs were intimately part of the entertainment through to the extremes of the Matthew Bannister era when it was all about the music (man) and new emerging music at that. In this latter phase presenters were developed whose voices and personas managed miraculously to match the genre of music they were interested in. I say this because I believe Moyles persona is manufactured, what I do not understand is why.
The problem for Moyles will be when the radio public tire of his endless whining, find his humiliation of harmless members of the public distasteful and go elsewhere. With his personality developed as it has been he has nowhere to go. His TV appearances have only served to underline the paucity of his talent and it has to be said he is not particularly pleasing to the eye either. On the recent Question of Pop Christmas special he showed a good knowledge of pop trivia but only succeeded in leaving a negative impression by baiting the opposing team in particular Gail Porter. In years to come he may look back on this as a seminal moment. As Gail Porter and similar people go from strength to strength in broadcasting built on a platform of professionalism and personality Moyles will still be there insulting some hapless caller on the graveyard slot at Has-been FM.
feel free to join up to http://www.dooyoo.co.uk and take the p*** out of the moaning morans
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