"EastEnders" is a "soap"
"As complaints about the show reached more than 6,000, it was sensationally claimed that its screenwriters are in revolt over the storyline, in which a mother whose new-born baby has just died secretly swaps the child for a healthy one born to a neighbour on the same day.
In addition, a host of critics - led by former TV star Anne Diamond and the online forum Mumsnet - complained that the New Year storyline was ‘cynical’, ‘ill informed’ and portrayed grieving mothers as ‘unhinged’.
Astonishingly, even the charity that the BBC asked to advise it on the storyline added to the growing chorus of anger, swiftly distancing itself from any direct involvement in the cot death scenes.
The decision to air the episodes has plunged the corporation into its biggest controversy since the Jonathan Ross and Russell Brand ‘Sachsgate’ saga in 2008.
Yesterday the BBC sought to justify the episodes by pointing out that calls the to the cot death charity had increased five-fold since the story was broadcast.
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Upsetting your audience would be pretty dumb if you were a commercial broadcaster but when you are government-funded (as the BBC is), that is not much of a worry.
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Of course the story would never make it to the air if anyone were to point out that it has a biblical parallel.
If you don't know what I'm talking about then you don't know much about the underpinnings of your own civilization.
Wisdom of Solomon?
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