Big brother is garbage - like most of commercial TV -

It is also dishonest in so far as it sells the sexual tension/release that they manipulate and foster - they then try to play it down/pixilate/bleep the product that they so skilfully put together - in a sense they are pornographers with out the hutzpah to say so. Thats what offends me.

I also need to ask - is saintfletcher formerly from Merimbula NSW?

Wendy.

Your recollection of events is sadly lacking in truth. I sent an email to info at yourexports.com (I have changed it for your privacy) not any personal email address and it was addressed to you.
This link was posted on the other forum where we had this discussion.

I then received multiple emails to my private address full of insults and even threats . Is your memory a little clearer now? I replied once to each email.

Maybe redneck is the pseudo AFP officer who threatened me on your behalf.

What a lovely nest of vipers we are ;)

One of the posters here named the sponsors of Big Brother ,that is the way to go. The government lacks the backbone to ban such gutter shows, if it did ban them it would probably be called A dictator. But the public who hate this sort of stuff can tell the sponsors that their goods are no longer wanted and why.
It would not be long before the commercial television channels got the message and hopefully clean up their offerings.

Interesting point about not patronising BB sponsors. As I never watch BB [in fact apart from news and current affairs I watch very little TV at all], I have no idea who the sponsors are.

One thing I see as potentially far more harmful to young people than just about anything else on TV are the tobacco company names and logos on racing drivers' and riders' clothing and vehicles. To me it's illogical to pixillate bums and boobs, but not to pixillate this deliberate glamourisation of tobacco.

I doubt that BB is deliberately trying to influence anyone to copy the reportedly strange behaviour of some of the participants. But there's no doubt at all that the tobacco industry is using every means at its disposal to get young people addicted and to replenish the pool of users, as the existing clientele is gradually killed off.

Talking about not patronising those companies whose policies we do not agree with, I endeavour to practice what I preach in this respect and I do not buy anything made by Kraft Foods, because of the association between this company and Phillip Morris Cigarettes.

http://www.infact.org/helpstop.html

http://www.tobaccofreekids.org/reports/philipmorris/

I wonder if any of the moralising ones have any comment to make on this.

It is already happening in the USA, Mickijo.

The television networks in the USA hide behind the US Constitution's First Amendment (Right to free speech and expression). But what the founding fathers of the US Constitution would have thought of TV shows like Big Brother or South park, is intersting to contemplate. Thomas Jefferson himself had a very low opinion of the media in his own day, and he considered that his greatest legacy was not the US Constitution, but the University of Virginia.

So parents in the US have begun "turn off the TV days" to protest to the networks about the increasing number of TV shows targeting childen for programs that most parents think are unsuitable for kids. The networks freaked out over that.

Should giant multimedia companies produce TV shows which are simply sexual peep shows for kids? Should they produce movies glorifying car thieves? Should the media be the unofficial advertising arm of the illegal drug market? Should popstars be alowed to sing "songs" extolling the virtues of criminal behaviour, and the pleasures of raping their mothers?

Fortunately, Australia does not have a Bill of Rights that grant First Amendment rights to the media. It would be nice if we did, but then it would be nice if the media used that privelege responsibly. Obviously it can not be trusted to do that. The people's parliament therefore has the power to insist upon higher standards, and demand that the media promote societal values instead of making parent's jobs infinitely harder by constantly denigrating pro social values to our children.

To Steve M.

First of all you were responding to another persons comments not mine on a forum who happend to use our office.

You then back tracked though our web link you are correct to contact her personally.

Your emails were strange to say the least.[ I still have them]

You also wrote saying. Oh Yes How is The So And So pub going these days.[ clearly saying you had checked where this lady came from.]

As she was under protection you really frightended her.

Perhaps you ought not seek people out. Then you claim to be related to the minister of Agriculture advising me that if we ignore you it might not be so good for the animals.

Well Steve I have not seen you make any moves to help the animals but.> As you are so well connected tell Howard to foregt Banning Big Brother And Ban Live Exports.
Oh and by The way pop into your friend Amanda and tell her to get those poor animals into a creek feed situation . Thats Free Range and hard fed.

Or Dont you even care.