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Thread #141144   Message #3415625
Posted By: Jack Campin
06-Oct-12 - 06:56 PM
Thread Name: Obit: RIP Sir Jimmy Savile of BBC [2011]
Subject: RE: 2011 Obit: RIP Sir Jimmy Savile UK disc jockey
Liz Kershaw is reported at more length in another story:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-19856081

Ms Kershaw, 54, who joined Radio 1 in 1987, said the station had changed out of all recognition since the 1980s. [...]

The main jokes were about his adventures on the Radio 1 Roadshow. It was massive then.

"It was rather like the X Factor going round the country then. Can you imagine the X Factor judges rounding up the contestants and asking for sexual favours after the show? I don't think so," she added.


You know what? I do think so. Shows like The X Factor are not one bit less sleazy and riddled with institutional creeps playing power games than TV was in Savile's day. Of course some of them are abusing their position. 15 years is nowhere near long enough for the sort of cultural change Kershaw says has happened - not without a couple of layers of management being taken out and shot, anyway. She's talking like a Catholic church bureaucrat on a damage limitation exercise.