While on the topics of cars...


BBC has a truly awful, testosterone-driven car show called Top Gear hosted by Jeremy Clarkson. Two years ago he had to apologize to Korean viewers who were angry because of his disparaging comments about a Korean-made car. Well, it seems that apology was not really seriously felt, as he did it again in a show about a Malaysian built car called the Perodua Kelisa.

In the show, he calls it the worst in the world. He then promptly attacks it with a sledgehammer before blowing it up. Watch it here.

This is the BBC. Not a tabloid channel, exactly. Why does a public broadcasting company allow this jerk to insult millions of people in Malaysia and Korea (mentioned again in this clip). Understandably, Malaysian politicians are rather upset.

Imagine the outrage if NHK allowed a similar program to be aired here in Japan.

Comments

Anonymous said…
When television was a new technology they promoted by saying it would bring art an cultural into one's home and even make schools obsolete through educational programing.

Instead, look what one gets.

Oh, I know there are NHK concerts, etc, but the overwhelming majority of air time is filled with this kind of garbage. This guy Clarkson actually gets paid for acting like a total a##.

Sigh.

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