Dangerous Media?

A massive media backlash has started against the dancer Anton Du Beke. He called his dancing partner - the actress Laila Rouass "a Paki". Without condoning the language used, I think this is just another case of trial by media. It happened 2 weeks ago, it was a joke (if not a very funny one) and he has had his apology accepted by Miss Rouass.

A bit of a case of people who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones here methinks. As I write this, an Asian woman has rung the TV programme "The Wright Stuff" to tell everyone about her workforce of Afghanies, mainly women, who are known as "The Taliban". It's a jokey refererence to something that most people can relate to when Afghanistan is mentioned. I also find it interesting that most of the people who are "outraged" are white and what used to be called middle class.
In a week where 3 people have been convicted of having pornographic images of young children in various digital media, a tsunami has struck and an earthquake has killed thousands, this really is a story that should never have seen the light of day.I'm sure Miss Rouass has given as good as she got, and I suppose the one good thing about it,it's kept Katie Price,aka Jordan, off the front pages for a day or so.