There's a row in the US after a 'shock jock' made controversial remarks about Autism. He suggested that "in 99 percent of the cases, it's a brat who hasn't been told to cut the act out".
Advertisers have cut and run and the show has been cut from some schedules. It led to the usual (and superficially entertaining) two way debate on a news channel with someone attacking him as needing psychiatric treatment and someone else saying that he's just increased awareness of autism.
However, the part of the debate that received no attention at all, anywhere, was when his defender claimed that 'all Savage was doing was to be outrageous to increase listeners and generate advertising revenue.'
Apparently this behaviour is well within the realms of acceptability, even if the misrepresentation of autism was not.
A Tribute to Norman Tebbit
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Norman Tebbit was a giant among Conservative politicians of the late
twentieth century. His image on Spitting Image as the ‘Chingford Skinhead’
belied th...
2 days ago
2 comments:
Hm...
I suppose you've got me to thank then! (for not being autistic.)
Another one for the list!
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