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To: maceng2 who wrote (694)	1/8/2005 1:48:17 PM
From: maceng2	of 1417

The power of Springer. Even able to make an argument in the UK with people who are supposed to know more. What a bunch of suckers.. ananova.com Tories join row over Springer opera The BBC has been accused of using shock tactics as the row over its screening of the Jerry Springer musical moved into the political arena. Critics have alleged that the show, to be shown uncut on BBC2 on Saturday night, features more than 8,000 swear words and have been angered by scenes showing Jesus in a nappy admitting he is "a bit gay". The BBC insist there are less than 300 hundred offensive words in the opera, even under the broadest definition of the term, including 117 'f-words' and seven 'c-words'. The disputed 8,000 figure is arrived at by multiplying the number of swear words by the number of people singing them in the show. The BBC has received around 45,000 calls and letters over the issue but stressed that some correspondence had been supportive of the decision to air the musical. Meanwhile, prayer group Christian Voice will hold a vigil outside BBC Television Centre in Wood Lane, west London. The storm took on a political dimension after Tory deputy leader Michael Ancram joined the criticism. He said: "You can choose to go to the theatre, you can decide that you want to pay a sum of money to go to see something. That is where you go to see freedom of expression." Speaking on BBC Radio Four's Any Questions? he added: "Public service television, I believe, has another duty and that is to exercise a degree of caution which is not there for the theatre to exercise. "I ask the question about the motives of the BBC in putting this on. They haven't advertised it as a great cultural event. They have advertised it as an occasion when we are going to have 3,000 of one type of word and 1,000 of another type of word. "What they are trying to do is to get people to watch it because they think it is going to shock them. I don't think it is the duty of the BBC to do that." The decision to broadcast Jerry Springer - The Opera has sparked a record 7,361 complaints to TV watchdogs and protesters have burned symbolic TV licences over the issue.

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