What has the world come to?
It’s okay to broadcast rugby league sex scandals, but when someone takes the piss out of a sex scandal on the other foot, people get outraged. Outrage at ABC TV Hungry Beast Liz Ellis group sex skit was published on News.com.au from the Daily Telegraph on 02 October 2009.
The advertised skit was broadcast at the end of the Hungry Beast as a taster for the next episode. The embedded video associated with this article shows a clear parody between the Cronulla sex scandal Four Corners interview and an alleged group sex incident with the Australian Netball team and Liz Ellis.
Why is this so wrong? Well, it isn’t, but watch the video and make your own judgement.
The Hungry Beast is a current affairs/comedy crossover show similar to the Chaser’s War on Everything. Okay, maybe they shouldn’t have mentioned specific names of players in the skit, but this is satire, not news and why must we be so politically correct. NRL has copped a flogging this year with almost every scandal under the sun, so why is it so hard to believe that similar scandals couldn’t affect other sports like netball.
The referenced Daily Telegraph article is very limited, but effective, in its use of components of an online news article. Apart from the embedded video, the only tools which makes it different from print, is a link to the TV Guide and related news stories.
Links to the ABC TV/Hungry Beast site could have been included, but despite the negative spin of the article for the show, it has generated a lot of interest on the Most Popular Entertainment story list and will certainly attract scores of new viewers for next weeks episode.
As the for the skit, I hope the ABC comes to its senses, stops being overly politically correct, and airs that skit in its entirety.
View the latest hilarity at the Hungry Beast website.
Hungry Beast on ABC1 from 30 Sep 09
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