Jimmy Savile... who is he?
Posted: Sun Oct 28, 2012 12:00 pm
It recently dawned on me that most people below the age of 25 or 30 wouldn't have even heard of Jimmy Savile until recently so will be baffled by the massive coverage he's been getting of late. I myself did know who he was. Having one or two grey hairs around my temples, I was a kid in the 1970's and a teen in the 1980's, I remember Jimmy Savile very well. Most younger people would not. It just makes it even more ridiculous that he's getting this much coverage.
The things he did are bad, deserve to be covered by the media, but not to this extent. Everyone I know has said the media has overdone it in the last month, and it shows no sign of letting up. I said on another post that it serves little purpose now that the guy's dead. This latest idea of stripping him of his knighthood I see no point in - he's no longer around so what difference will it make? Now that Gary Glitter has been arrested in connection with all this, and there's also Freddie Starr being charged too, the media will be keeping this alive for weeks and months to come.
Who else thinks the press have overdone all this and are going on about it all far too much, especially when you consider that a large chunk of the population hadn't even heard of him until a month ago.
The things he did are bad, deserve to be covered by the media, but not to this extent. Everyone I know has said the media has overdone it in the last month, and it shows no sign of letting up. I said on another post that it serves little purpose now that the guy's dead. This latest idea of stripping him of his knighthood I see no point in - he's no longer around so what difference will it make? Now that Gary Glitter has been arrested in connection with all this, and there's also Freddie Starr being charged too, the media will be keeping this alive for weeks and months to come.
Who else thinks the press have overdone all this and are going on about it all far too much, especially when you consider that a large chunk of the population hadn't even heard of him until a month ago.