This is all getting completely out of hand now. An organisation named The Christian Insitute is claiming that it’ll be taking the BBC to the High Court as it has “violated” its Royal Charter.
I’m actually scared by the sway that some of these organistations are having on our liberty and freedom of expression. I don’t think that they have any power, but if you keep bashing away at something, cracks tend to emerge after a while. If I were at the BBC, I’d be commissioning a fairly swift repeat of the broadcast on BBC4 (for whom it was originally commissioned according the Private Eye).
My biggest worry is self-censorship as these groups hammer away at a media that’ll eagerly lap up and support this nonsense. I’m thinking of the Daily Mail and Daily Express here. Just look at America where the vaguest sight of a nipple on free to air television is enough to bring hundreds of thousands of dollar fines.