EVENING DOUBLE STANDARD PART 1 ("Popjustice" - UK)Time of publication: 01.02.2003 |
Trust the Evening Standard to huff and puff like TATU's manager in a playground over the rise of the paedopop movement and, of course, The Mighty TATU themselves. One thing we've always admired about the Evening Standard is the fact that it's never guilty of double standards. Which is why we loved this piece on their website, and in the paper, yesterday, illustrated by this nice full-colour picture of TATU snogging. The lack of logic here is astounding: if, as the Standard are saying, something is dangerous because it appeals to paedophiles, how come it's damaging to have it on kids' TV shows (which are watched by children), but alright to have it in the Standard (which is read almost exclusively by adults, ie the very people who would qualify as paedophiles)? Are the Standard really suggesting that they do not have one single paedophile among their readership?
Today's Richard & Judy has been an absolute triumph. They kicked off with an "Oh isn't this awful"-style phone poll regarding The Mighty TATU. 89% of Richard & Judy viewers think there should be a public boycott of 'All The Things She Said' - hardly the sort of news that'll have Woolworths pulling it from the shelves. (And at any rate - if the TATU single has now sold about 21,000 copies, doesn't that mean that 99.965% of the population are already boycotting it?) By the end of the show Polydor had issued a statement which explained that TATU's biggest audience were teenage girls, who found them inspirational. "Well that's brilliant for avoiding the point, isn't it!" exclaimed Judy. Hey - not as brilliant as running a premium-rate phone poll on the topic, thus ensuring that Richard & Judy make money from, as they term TATU, "paedophilic lesbians". Well done, Richard & Judy!
Thanks to convol. |
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