Give me back my licence fee, part 563

Every year a company called Capita take a hundred and fourty pounds off every TV-owning household in the UK that submits to its intimidation tactics. This is then given to the BBC. The BBC breaks down licence fee spending as follows (probably):

1% - Doctor Who
1% - Top Gear
1% - Radio 2
47% - Broadcasting complete and utter shite
25% - Management consultancy fees to outsourced thieves such as (hey!) Capita
25% - The BBC News, voice of correct in a world of Fox

Now normally I tend to be fine with this sort of thing but when the news resorts to this level of cockwittery, I lose my rag. First of all, the guy looks like Private Pyle from Full Metal Jacket, which is a dead giveaway - face like a mong? Keep 'em away from the firearms. Second of all, his parents put the game in a box with a GUN?!??!?!!?! Thirdly, Halo 3 is a 15 rated game in the UK, specifically to prevent children being exposed to the cartoon excesses it contains. I can only imagine the country that brought us the PRMC and the 'kcuf' in rap records will have a similar or more servere rating on it. If you have to confiscate a game from a seventeen year old, he's mentally not going to be his physical age, is he? So why let him play a game rated for older teens in the first place? Give him a Wii. Although the judge reckons it is premeditated - in which case if the kid can't think as far as where he's going to live once he's killed his parents,that again points to him being a bit of a mouth breather and I loop back to my how is he allowed a "grown-ups' game?" point.

Daniel Petric, yesterday

What really ticks me off though is the Beeb's quote here:

"they took away his violent computer game"

Not really they didn't, they took away Halo 3. Halo 3 is violent in the same way Tom & Jerry is violent. It is cartoonish - the physics, physicality of the 'human' characters, the places it is set, weapons used, dialogue, all exaggerated nonsense. It is more closely approximate to something one could do in real life to complain of the cow rolling in Katamari Damacy.

Won't somebody think of the children??!?!!?!?

But heck, 'violent game' is a headline, a seller, a clicker, whereas the truth is someone annoyed their retard offspring and sent him on a path which led to a firearm they knew he'd be able to get to. Furry muff, if you are Fox, but you aren't, BBC, you are there to inform, educate and entertain, as Reith prescribed, and peddling this fetid dross as news just does not qualify. If it were lazy journalism that would be one thing. Cynical journalism is another entirely. Violent my arse.