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There are few things more unpleasant than a bunch of coked up media wankers deciding it would be a jolly jape to make a film exploiting the lives of people in poverty. You can imagine the braying l…
"There are few things more unpleasant than a bunch of coked up media wankers deciding it would be a jolly jape to make a film exploiting the lives of people in poverty.
You can imagine the braying laughter as the makers of Channel 4′s Benefits Street egged on people with drink problems to perform in front of the camera, even allegedly supplying them with alcohol to make sure they were shown in the worst possible light. With clever editing, and in one participant’s case at least, genuinely vulnerable people, it isn’t hard to create the desired freak show. People perform for the camera. Fill them full of booze first and film the resulting carnage and watch the ratings soar – particularly if the group you are stigmatising are already a target of tabloid fuelled hate."
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