A repost from out TV comrades over at Watch With Mothers
According to the organisation themselves, the BBC are saying sorry for the heavy promotion they afforded the release of U2’s awful No Line On The Horizon album.
A formal complaint was made by RadioCentre, trade body for commercial radio companies, and the BBC was forced to admit it went too far in giving Dave Bono, Dave Edge and the others too high a platform to belt their terrible music from.
On one hand, this is welcome news for those of us who aren’t fans for the band, but on the other it’s another weapon in the arsenal on a future conservative government seemingly bent on incapacitating the broadcaster when they come to power.
Another blow below their own belt from the BBC’s own hand then. Let’s hope they end this campaign of self-attrition before they make themselves completely vulnerable to commercial television’s attack.
Even handed assessment there. If we were reporting the news we would have probably called for Bono, his cohorts and anyone who played one of his godawful jingly jangly dirges on the radio to be shot out of a cannon aimed directly at a spike.
