Jezza suspended-

The thing about everyone’s remarks is, if it wasn’t Jeremy Clarkson, if it wasn’t Top Gear, if it wasn’t the BBC and the same thing happened in any other workplace, with any one of us we would be saying that it was gross misconduct and he should be dismissed.

We are all guilty of often saying there are double standards in this Country one rule for the elite and a different one for ordinary people, well in this case he should be treated no differently to any other person who has done the same thing, that is of course if he is actually guilty of what is rumoured.

If I had done some of the things or said some of the things he has in my place of work ‘a local authority’ I would have been long gone and rightly so. I’m not saying that I don’t agree that political correctness hasn’t gone a bit OTT but you just cant go around making insulting remarks about people and expect to get away with it, he is in a position of trust and should be setting an example, a good example.

Money, status, popularity, fame, following on twitter should not come into it at all.

Its about time some of these so called famous people lived in the real world where for ordinary people there are consequences to actions.

Just my opinion :)
 
From the BBCs perspective, they may have no choice but to get rid of him (depending on what he's actually done of course). Unlike commercial channels where the revenue is raised mainly from advertising, the Beeb is mostly licence fee / shareholder funded as far as I'm aware, so they have to keep controversy at bay at all costs or shareholders will pull out and the licence fee payers will turn all sanctimonious and demand heads on blocks.

Following the recent Saville affair, Aunty Beeb are very much between a rock and a hard place & as I see it can't win here. I really can't see them keeping him if the allegations of him hitting someone are true. I think the end result will be one of the commercial channels snapping him up, and it may actually be for the best. If all of this isn't actually a publicity stunt - which I doubt it is - then even if he returns to the Beeb he'll be so diluted down we'll not recognise him. Love him or hate him, we need people like JC to balance the present wave of PCness.
 
ekimj10 said:
Love him or hate him, we need people like JC to balance the present wave of PCness.
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Well said that's very true.
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Agree to a point but I still think that the elite so called celebrities in this country get away with far too much, ordinary people would not, and do not, get away with what people like him do.

Get someone new to front up Top Gear like David Coulthard :o
 
Get someone new to front up Top Gear like David Coulthard :o
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Susie Perry would get more of my attention, but I take your point about so-called celebs getting away with things, the way of the world I fear.
 
ekimj10 said:
Get someone new to front up Top Gear like David Coulthard :o
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Susie Perry would get more of my attention, but I take your point about so-called celebs getting away with things, the way of the world I fear.
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Azi Farni would be good for TG if we're talking female presenters. Very knowledgeable about motor sport (well bike racing anyway), great sense of humour and strangely attractive. I miss her on the Beebs MotoGP coverage now that BT Sport have got it, she was good.

Unfortunately it's only celebs who are high profile enough to be listened to when they spout their Clarksonesque diatribes. Us mere mortals can sound off in the same manner all day long but no bugger will take any notice, so we'll make no difference whatsover in redressing the PC / non-PC balance. So, for me the celebs can get away with what they can so long as they're making a valid stance against the PC brigade :)
 
I'm surprised more people aren't commenting more on the potential loss of revenue generated by sales of Top Gear around the world, in that it helps keep the licensee fee down.
 
Nictrix said:
Im still trying to get over the comment earlier that he was paid £13 million by the BBC!
Whos money was that?
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That was money generated by BBC Worldwide, they used it to buy the rights to Top Gear with the expectation that, in the long run, they'd make more than the initial cost
 
Not our licence fee then?
If they have that amount of money to splash around why are we paying for the tv licence?
 
Nictrix said:
Not our licence fee then?
If they have that amount of money to splash around why are we paying for the tv licence?
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Nope. The money generated from sales of the format around the world I'm afraid. You pay a license fee not to watch adverts, view impartial, regulated news, top quality education pre-school shows, iPlayer etc etc etc.
 
inkey$ said:
Nictrix said:
Not our licence fee then?
If they have that amount of money to splash around why are we paying for the tv licence?
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Nope. The money generated from sales of the format around the world I'm afraid. You pay a license fee not to watch adverts, view impartial, regulated news, top quality education pre-school shows, iPlayer etc etc etc.
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Im almost positive the only BBC show that gets watched in our house is when my wife watches Eastenders... even then its not live its recorded and watched later. Some adverts these days are better thanthe programs.
And Im sure most of that list is what they want you to believe they are supplying you.
 
Nictrix said:
inkey$ said:
Nictrix said:
Not our licence fee then?
If they have that amount of money to splash around why are we paying for the tv licence?
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Nope. The money generated from sales of the format around the world I'm afraid. You pay a license fee not to watch adverts, view impartial, regulated news, top quality education pre-school shows, iPlayer etc etc etc.
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Im almost positive the only BBC show that gets watched in our house is when my wife watches Eastenders... even then its not live its recorded and watched later. Some adverts these days are better thanthe programs.
And Im sure most of that list is what they want you to believe they are supplying you.
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Still a nope I'm afraid. The list is what is actually delivered [impartiality part is very much the opinion/politics of the viewer of course], but the rest plus a lot more is provided in return for your hard earned cash.
 
The BBC also have a Universal Service Obligation - which means everyone in the country must be able to receive television services from them, at a regulated price. It costs a lot of money to make sure that this is possible, maintained, and enhanced. And then you have to provide the programming, news, education etc. etc. Technically Sky, Virgin and other paid for services can be selective about who they provide services to, either physically or through pricing.

Given the amount of money that the show must generate every year, £13m to buy the rights sounds like a bargain to me. It's irrelevant that it all went to one person, and you can't begrudge someone owning the rights to something that turns out to be huge and then makes some money off it - jeez, the world is full of millionaire and billionaire 20-something's who had a great idea and sold it 2 years later after investing much less time in it that Clarkson has in TG.
 
Bing said:
...jeez, the world is full of millionaire and billionaire 20-something's who had a great idea and sold it 2 years later...
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Yeah, makes ya sick dunnit? Now when I were a lad.... :lol:
 
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