Report Jeremy Clarkson to the Press Complaints Commission
Carl Bernstein | 08.12.2011 00:20 | Occupy Everywhere | Public sector cuts | Repression | Workers' Movements
Indymedia users made a significant contribution to encouraging members of the public to register complaints with Ofcom and the BBC, in protest against Jeremy Clarkson suggesting striking public sector workers should be murdered. The Samaritans, Mind and Rethink Mental Illness are also making complaints to the Press Complaints Commission, urging them to investigate Jeremy Clarkson for suggesting that the remains of suicide victims should be eaten by wild animals. Please help by registering your complaint with the Press Complaints Commission here...
http://www.pcc.org.uk/complaints/form.html
http://www.pcc.org.uk/complaints/form.html
Indymedia users made a very significant contribution to encouraging members of the public to register complaints with Ofcom and the BBC, in protest against Jeremy Clarkson suggesting striking public sector workers should be murdered in front of their families. Coming soon after EDL sympathiser Anders Breivik slaughtered left-wing teenagers in Norway, and in context of increasing EDL violence against anti-capitalist groups and protest camps, Jeremy Clarkson's incitement was reckless in the extreme, and over 31,000 complaints have been received by the BBC, as of this Monday last. In addition, the charities Samaritans, Mind and Rethink Mental Illness will also be making complaints to the Press Complaints Commission, urging them to investigate Jeremy Clarkson for his article in last Saturday's Sun newspaper, in which Jeremy Clarkson suggested that the remains of suicide victims should be eaten by wild animals. Please help by registering your own complaint with the Press Complaints Commission here...
http://www.pcc.org.uk/complaints/form.html
And if you've not complained to Ofcom and to the BBC already, please do so now...
https://www.bbc.co.uk/complaints/forms/#anchor
https://stakeholders.ofcom.org.uk/tell-us/specific-programme-epg
In the same Sun newspaper article, Jeremy Clarkson also contradicted earlier BBC statements, denying he had ever apologised (as the BBC pretended he had) for advocating the murder of Trades Unionists, so Indymedia users are reminded that public outrage over the hacking of murdered schoolgirl Milly Dowler's mobile phone led to an advertising boycott that destroyed the Sun's sister newspaper The News of the World. The fact that public protests destroyed one of the most powerful right-wing media outlets in the UK was a massive victory for progressive activism, and provides a real measure of campaigners' potential and actual strength in that respect. Indymedia users are also reminded that Jeremy Clarkson is also a close friend of disgraced former News of the World editor Rebekah Brooks, and reminded that Anders Breivik quoted Jeremy Clarkson's column in The Sunday Times newspaper in the manifesto that Anders Breivik posted on-line before murdering 69 activists. The Sun, The News of the World and The Sunday Times are of course all owned by militantly anti-Union newspaper mogul Rupert Murdoch, who also owns the rabidly xenophobic right-wing propaganda channel Fox News.
With regard to Jeremy Clarkson's latest comments, a train driver who has coped with rail suicide wrote in The Guardian that he was "shocked by Clarkson", while The Samaritans chief executive Catherine Johnstone said "the insensitivity of Jeremy Clarkson’s comments in his Sun column... truly beggars belief". Mind's chief executive Paul Farmer stated that "Jeremy Clarkson's article in The Sun is extraordinarily tasteless, and shows an utter lack of understanding of the tragedy of any suicide... Our colleagues at Samaritans have an excellent partnership with Network Rail and have already helped to reduce the number of suicides on the railway through sensitive, but focussed work". Paul Jenkins, chief executive of Rethink Mental Illness added "Jeremy Clarkson needs to remember the families and friends of people who jump in front of trains. Every suicide is someone's son, daughter or mother or father. They need to know that their relative's body has been treated with respect... While train drivers deserve our sympathy in these terrible situations, so do the families and friends who are left behind". There are no guarantees that this campaign will work, but the only way to guarantee it WON'T work is not to give it your active support!
http://www.mind.org.uk/news/6128_jeremy_clarkson_article_in_the_sun
http://www.rethink.org/how_we_can_help/news_and_media/press_releases/clarkson_should_reme.html
http://www.samaritans.org/media_centre/latest_press_releases/jeremy_clarkson_comment.aspx
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/dec/05/jeremy-clarkson-rail-suicide
Heard the one about Jeremy Clarkson?
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2011/12/489782.html
http://www.pcc.org.uk/complaints/form.html And if you've not complained to Ofcom and to the BBC already, please do so now...
https://www.bbc.co.uk/complaints/forms/#anchor https://stakeholders.ofcom.org.uk/tell-us/specific-programme-epg In the same Sun newspaper article, Jeremy Clarkson also contradicted earlier BBC statements, denying he had ever apologised (as the BBC pretended he had) for advocating the murder of Trades Unionists, so Indymedia users are reminded that public outrage over the hacking of murdered schoolgirl Milly Dowler's mobile phone led to an advertising boycott that destroyed the Sun's sister newspaper The News of the World. The fact that public protests destroyed one of the most powerful right-wing media outlets in the UK was a massive victory for progressive activism, and provides a real measure of campaigners' potential and actual strength in that respect. Indymedia users are also reminded that Jeremy Clarkson is also a close friend of disgraced former News of the World editor Rebekah Brooks, and reminded that Anders Breivik quoted Jeremy Clarkson's column in The Sunday Times newspaper in the manifesto that Anders Breivik posted on-line before murdering 69 activists. The Sun, The News of the World and The Sunday Times are of course all owned by militantly anti-Union newspaper mogul Rupert Murdoch, who also owns the rabidly xenophobic right-wing propaganda channel Fox News.
With regard to Jeremy Clarkson's latest comments, a train driver who has coped with rail suicide wrote in The Guardian that he was "shocked by Clarkson", while The Samaritans chief executive Catherine Johnstone said "the insensitivity of Jeremy Clarkson’s comments in his Sun column... truly beggars belief". Mind's chief executive Paul Farmer stated that "Jeremy Clarkson's article in The Sun is extraordinarily tasteless, and shows an utter lack of understanding of the tragedy of any suicide... Our colleagues at Samaritans have an excellent partnership with Network Rail and have already helped to reduce the number of suicides on the railway through sensitive, but focussed work". Paul Jenkins, chief executive of Rethink Mental Illness added "Jeremy Clarkson needs to remember the families and friends of people who jump in front of trains. Every suicide is someone's son, daughter or mother or father. They need to know that their relative's body has been treated with respect... While train drivers deserve our sympathy in these terrible situations, so do the families and friends who are left behind". There are no guarantees that this campaign will work, but the only way to guarantee it WON'T work is not to give it your active support!
http://www.mind.org.uk/news/6128_jeremy_clarkson_article_in_the_sun http://www.rethink.org/how_we_can_help/news_and_media/press_releases/clarkson_should_reme.html http://www.samaritans.org/media_centre/latest_press_releases/jeremy_clarkson_comment.aspx http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/dec/05/jeremy-clarkson-rail-suicide Heard the one about Jeremy Clarkson?
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2011/12/489782.html
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