http://politics.guardian.co.uk/news/...696591,00.html

George Galloway has today accused Channel 4 executives of misleading him over what he claimed was the "censorship" of political views he expressed in the Celebrity Big Brother house.
The Bethnal Green and Bow MP today claimed TV executives reneged on promises given when they visited him in the House of Commons to discuss his appearance on the show.

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Well said George get stuck into them tories.

Well who would have seen this one coming?

Jodie attacked them when she came out also (but not in the Guardian, in her own blog ). They have something in common!

BB is not a political platform

A sore loser methinks

Channel 4??!!

Up is down!

Black is white!

Etc.

I wonder what colour the sky is in Georges' world.

Hmmm.

He can defeat the US congress but he can't outwit Endemol.

Mr Galloway added that the media should not take the show "too seriously",

well i just had to laugh at that part! like you did mr Galloway!

I wonder if Mr Galloway will be such a strong supporter of Pete Burns when he finds out he is Jewish.

This is not an antisemitic comment as I myself am Jewish.

Galloway truly is a tit.

Channel 4 lying through their teeth as usual. If they really believed what they're saying, then how come the same rules of political balance didn't apply to Derek Laud? Where was the socialist/Liberal HM on BB6. Why was Mr Laud not censored in the same manner?

These are questions which Channel 4 have consitently refused to answer, because they can't. They're talking b*llocks, and they expect everyone to believe them.

If Galloway thought that he could use the media as a tool for his politics, he was sadly mistaken. He is stupid to think he can use BB as a platform, if he wants to spread his word, he should'v started a broadcasting company, not become a politician!

He who controls your media controls your world.

It wouldn't be a Galloway statement if it wasn't riddled with hypocrisy and inconsistencies.

£ndemol could give lessons to the US Senate on how to lie effectively, imo.

Galloway has had plenty of political things to say in the house, his attack on America for a start, and telling Rula that Saddam Hussein was extremely popular with the people of Iraq. That he's sounding off now is just sour grapes because going on BB wasn't the success he thought it would be.

Galloway knows Pete is Jewish and Galloway is not anti-Jewish, not anti-semitic, just anti-Zionist like the rest of us!

I would vote for GG in any election. He speaks the truth.

Is Pete Jewish?

It's a specific restriction that applies to members of parliament, I think, hence Mr. Laud didn't need to be balanced.

A look at the Ofcom guidelines should yeild a defnitive answer.

i think the focus on the silly things GG did in the house is a mistake and distracts form the real shocker , ie how he treated people. in fact his taks showed the better side of him , ie that was willing to partake fully in tasks unlike pete.

Yep - I have to chuckle recalling that. Plenty of people have told anyone that dare question Mr. Galloway's time in the house to get a sense of perspective, defending a man who can say that of Saddam Hussein, and then say that Jodie Marsh is "wicked"[1]

[1] In the old fashioned sense, youngsters, not the Prestonian/Chantellian sense.

Endemol are snakes in the grass when it comes to Ofcom. The ruling does not refer to a single programme, but to wider programming.

Obviously because it sells papers - it's a story that's quick to grasp (MP does foolish thing) with pictures to go on the front page with it.

I agree it's a shame that no one's looked at the aspects you mention, but that's the meeja for you I guess.

Charlie Brooker (Guardian) has a go;


http://www.guardian.co.uk/Columnists...696171,00.html

I honestly think that people that remember it at all will remember the cat and the leotard though, and I expect that to get the lion's share of the coverage.

Totally agree. Thousands of people who haven't watched one minute of the show know all about the cat incident and the leotard and think that's all there was to it. Political reporters and the like need to do more research and consult people who have actually watched CBB.