Geeklawyer is saddened to reveal yet another sorry episode in fakery by a major UK media organisation. One can’t profess surprise when Sky and the junk cable channels fake it.
I mean really, come on, did you really expect ‘Picking up Hot Girls and Shagging on the First Date’ to be real?! Nah.
And when it’s the BBC and our beloved Blue Peter one is naturally a tad upset. Poor little Patch and Shep must be turning in their graves at the bottom of John Noakes’ garden.
The world, however, ends when our favourite most trusted and beloved media organisation is caught lying to us. Yes, the Metropolitan Police. The recent Stockwell Station ‘Can You Catch a Terrorist?’ reality show fiasco has shown the lack of accountability at the head of the organisation. Star Producer Andy Hayman has been roundly criticised by media regulator Ofmet for pretending John Charles de Menezes was a real terrorist long after he discovered that he was just a resting actor.
Loyal Andy denied that Ian “Don’t tell me anything please” Blair, head of Unreality Programming at the Met, had been told anything.
“You have to understand he only draws a large salary and he doesn’t have much interest in what we programmers do. He doesn’t like bad news, so we make sure we never to talk to him. He does his shit, we do ours. Everyone’s happy.”
Andy refused to be criticised:
“All this is standard practice. I certainly won’t be considering my position. Hindsight is all very well but you have to understand that at that time we were under heavy pressure to get highly rated TV terrorist programmes out that were exciting. Misleading the public was in their own interest really.”
The Metropolitan Filming Authority, the professional regulatory body, said that the matter was incredibly serious and would receive urgent consideration:
“This is a tragic situation and the public needs to know that we will make a full rigorous and impartial investigation before letting everyone off.”
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