Thursday 13 November 2008

The Joke of Dizzy Rascal On News Night



The night when the world celebrated the landslide victory of President- Elect Barack Obama, the BBC decided to make a joke of what this win meant to people of Britiain by choosing rapper Dizzy Racal as the voice of black people.

On BBC 2, the popular political commentary show News Night featured an interview with Baroness Amos, the former leader of the House of Lords and Dizzy Rascal, commenting about their feelings on whether Britain could have a black Prime Minister.

I, like many others was ashamed of how Dizzy Rascal came across in the show. Fair enough he was just being himself, and no one ever told him he was going to have to become a political commentator.

It is true that if he was to have been any different, people would have been wondering what was wrong. However to me the blame lies completely with the BBC.

Voice of Young Britain

If they wanted to have a commentary from young Britain, there is no way they could say that he was the perfect choice for the voice of young people.

He was not taking it seriously and Jeremy Paxman definitely was not taking it seriously. Even Baroness Amos was embarrassed.

If this is what the BBC call hard news, they should be ashamed of themselves. Usually the BBC can be depended on to be a perfect representation of what news should be, but on that occassion they were seriously lacking.

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