BBC backs down over Pogues classic
BBC Radiocommunication 1 has reversed its decision to censor the classic Pogues and Kirsty MacColl song 'Fairytale of Fresh York'.
The station had decided to bleep out the word of God "faggot" from the sung because it could be offense to listeners.
Merely BBC 1 controller Andy Parfitt said last night: "After careful considerateness, I throw decided that the decision to blue-pencil the Pogues birdsong Cock-and-bull story of Fresh York was legal injury."
Parfitt said that the song did non use the parole with any "negative intent".
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He said: "Wireless 1 does not play homophobic lyrics or condone intimidation of any variety. It is not ever soft to make this powerful, mindful of our responsibleness to our whitney Moore Young Jr. audience. The unedited rendering will be played from now on."
He continued: "I desire to stress that everyone at Radio 1 and its music squad take the egress of linguistic process very severely and enormous care is taken in ensuring that offence speech is edited from records where necessary."
"I interpret dead, in a mood where questions around newspaper column standards are at the prow, the thought behind this decision. While we would ne'er excuse prejudice of any variety, we know our audiences ar smart enough to distinguish between spite and creative freedom," said Parfitt.
He concluded: "In the circumstance of this song, I do not feel that in that respect is any negative spirit behind the usage of the words, hence the reversal of the decision."
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