"Boltar" wrote in message
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Marc Brett wrote:

On Sun, 24 Sep 2006 13:09:00 GMT, "Heavyhorses"

wrote:

Found this "save top gear" petition link on another forum, if you are
remotely interested, sign online he-
http://www.petitiononline.com/tg100/petition.html

A bit less fawning and a bit more sense from the other side:

Sense from the Guardian and Transport 2000? I suppose if you're
some yoghurt knitting car hating hippie who lives in a treehouse then
perhaps it would seem like sense. To quote from the article you
mentioned: TG apparently "should be replaced by a programme promoting
sensible driving in sensible vehicles". Yeah , that'll really pull the
viewers in. I can just see people lining up to what some pasty faced
humourless "saftey campaigner" showing us how to drive at 29.99mph
down a high street followed by an exciting clip about pedestrian
crossing
ettiquette.

The BBC is obliged to benefit the public, not just show them what they want.
Judging by the amount of speed-related crashes, maybe it's something the
people need...

Perhaps we should ban all programs about anything exciting or fast
and live in a dull grey little world run by dreary little men who
wouldn't
know fun if it smacked them in the face. Like you perhaps.

How about just balancing out good/bad so people don't get a one-sided view
of things? Blaming it on "dreary little men" is a bit childish, isn't it?

B2003