tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-986284296996475777.post2335281217756453370..comments2023-03-17T02:22:50.312+00:00Comments on Wrestling Emily Dickinson: Always Outnumbered, Always BetrayedAJ McKennahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07978034654265028416noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-986284296996475777.post-45197730195132675362011-03-24T20:37:25.271+00:002011-03-24T20:37:25.271+00:00I'm not a bad cop OR a good cop, I'm a cop...I'm not a bad cop OR a good cop, I'm a cop on the edge, playing by my own rules... :PAJ McKennahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07978034654265028416noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-986284296996475777.post-56388828420881529812011-03-23T21:56:11.547+00:002011-03-23T21:56:11.547+00:00We have plenty of bad cops to our good cops. xWe have plenty of bad cops to our good cops. xParis Leesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-986284296996475777.post-21605827677842929272011-03-23T21:00:12.186+00:002011-03-23T21:00:12.186+00:00The research from Channel 4 IS a step in the right...The research from Channel 4 IS a step in the right direction, and I do hope their research guides their commissioning and presentation of material in future. <br /><br />And it's good that you're in talks with ITV too. You're right that networking with the, er, networks is necessary, but if you're going to do the reasonable negotiating thing, it sometimes helps to have an angry brigade to point to... ;)AJ McKennahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07978034654265028416noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-986284296996475777.post-73309123246388570032011-03-23T20:37:59.347+00:002011-03-23T20:37:59.347+00:00Thank you, that response has really cheered me up ...Thank you, that response has really cheered me up today. I forgot to mention that Channel 4 have also commissioned some qualitative research into trans people, which I will discuss at more length in a blog I'll put up by the end of the week. <br /><br />I don't want to turn ITV into the baddies - no one is allowed to get that status. Doing that will not help a thing. We are building a relationship with them too, and I have told my contact how unhappy I am with Loose Women. Thought I am disappointed that no one came to the launch, we have to get on with this people - it's the only way we'll acheive anything.<br /><br />Thanks again. xParis Leesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-986284296996475777.post-66194006297302914792011-03-23T20:20:30.011+00:002011-03-23T20:20:30.011+00:00Hi Paris, thanks for commenting. I appreciate the ...Hi Paris, thanks for commenting. I appreciate the time you've taken over these points. To be honest this blog was a bit of a cri de couer - I'd only just seen the post about the Geraldine programme being rerun on the bus back from work, I got back in and went off on one without considering things rationally. <br /><br />Thinking about things with a calmer head on, I find I agree with all the points you raise. <br /><br />My experience of large organisations does suggest that quite often the left hand doesn't know what the right hand's doing, so it's more likely that 4's showing this thing out of simple thoughtlessness rather than any more malign motive. That doesn't make it okay, but you're right that others are more to blame. <br /><br />ITV's failure to even send a representative to the MoU launch shows a contempt much greater than Channel 4's failure to clock on to how offensive wheeling out Geraldine again would be, and it's ITV, rather than 4, who are giving Kay a platform five days in a row on Loose Cis Women. They, more than Channel 4, deserve our ire over this - you're right about that. <br /><br />You're also right that ultimately the blame lies at Peter Kay's door, and I know that Christine Burns asked his twitter account for an opinion on the matter, but I'm not sure how she got on. My experience of comedians acknowledging the offense they've caused does suggest that he probably won't be very forthcoming, and by all accounts Kay is a pretty poor specimen of human being *even* for a comedian. I think there's more mileage in creating a climate in which Kay's BS doesn't fly than trying to change his mind. <br /><br />Finally, on a more personal note, it was never my intention in the above to belittle any of the valuable work TMW has done in getting the MoU out there, and getting organisations onside. I appreciate that it's going to take time, effort, and the provision of training and resources to change the culture of the media, and I have a lot of respect for the work you do, the difficult task you've taken on, and the things you've already managed to achieve in such a short space of time. It was Channel 4 I was upset with when I wrote this post, not TMW, but I'm sorry to have upset you and TMW in writing it. <br /><br />Again, thanks for taking the time to put your side of the story, and keep up the good work.AJ McKennahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07978034654265028416noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-986284296996475777.post-2245141148093161142011-03-23T13:50:59.843+00:002011-03-23T13:50:59.843+00:00Though I personally despise Geraldine and find thi...Though I personally despise Geraldine and find this whole episode utterly depressing, MoU doesn't stand for Magic-wand. Channl4 4 is a huge organisation with many different departments, and this show would have been booked well before the MoU was signed. That doesn't make it Ok, but if we are going to work with Channel 4 then demanding that it be taken off is not really going to get us anywhere... this is a particularly difficult issue to tackle now that Comic Releif, the BBC, ITV and pretty much ALL the media have given Geraldine the thumbs up.<br /><br />We will be speaking to C4 about this - and I will forward my contacts there the link to this blog. But rather than have a completely all-or-nothing reponse, rather than say that the MoU is worthless just because there's an offensive piece going out this week, can you just give it a bit more time and see where we are in a years time? When we've had a chance to conduct traning at Channel 4, get our media guides distributed, consult on upcoming shows, which will happen months and months before they air?<br /><br />In the meantime might I suggest you direct your totally valid and understandable (I understand because I feel it too) anger towards the real enemies? Why not slag off ITV, who not only haven't signed the MoU but didn't bother turning up to the launch event? The BBC sent a representative, and are looking at how they can incoporate the MoU into their charter. Even better, you could try approaching Petet Kay direct and ask him if he realises the hurt he is causing trans people? I suspect he is too far gone down this route now to admit any wrongdoing, but why shouldn't we lay the blame at his door? <br /><br />Finally, you have every right to express your opinion, and TMW welcomes discussion - we are not Stonewall!!! However, this past week I have spent a lot of time responding to negativity from the trans community which I think would have been better spent firing emails off to the people who actually produce this media. I have been doing that as well, but it is emotionally draning having to read people day that we, I, am failing because we haven't completely destroyed the mountain we are chipping away at.Paris Leesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-986284296996475777.post-79807974148062039822011-03-23T09:45:56.701+00:002011-03-23T09:45:56.701+00:00Hello Emily,
Had a link to this passed onto mysel...Hello Emily,<br /><br />Had a link to this passed onto myself - don't know if you read my post on Mr Cosgrove's weekend work for the BBC...<br /><br />http://suzyscottdotcom.livejournal.com/356109.html<br /><br />*hugs*<br />SxxxAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com