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Listed below are comments made by pilgro between Wednesday, 28th May 2008 and Thursday, 29th May 2008.

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Did Mary Whitehouse have a point? 1:57pm on 29 May 2008 Mrs Whitehouse has a degree of direct responsible for the items on television which so distress many of your contributors and even me.

Her achievement, in attacking serious items that were political anathama, like Kathy Come Home, in the relentless triviality of others like the astonishing Pinky and Perky episode, in asumming that her blinkered and ill informed worldview was the only acceptable viewpoint, she did more to discredit censorship abd responsible editing, than any other single person.

I once had a brief debate with her on the so-called "decline of the family issue".
Correcting her statement that there had been a continual rise in the divorce rate since 1870 I pointed out that official marriage breakup had varied over time and that peaks in the divorce rate had followed world wars, legislative changes and so on.

"She replied dsimissively that "all you sociologists say that sort of thing...you're all communists."

With that level of argument all responsible criticism became impossible creating the very moral anomie that she feared
1968: "The Doors" mistaken for political extremists 4:49pm on 28 May 2008 Knowing about the reversing of camera sequences during the miner's strike how can we be sure that the footage here does not contain faked up sequences favourable to the government

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