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| Subject: Funny: UK's Clarkson dodges bullet over 'strikers should be shot' jibe Tue Feb 21, 2012 2:13 am | |
| He may have upset some public sector workers, but British television personality Jeremy Clarkson's comments that they "should be shot" in front of their families for striking did not breach broadcasting rules, UK media regulator Ofcom says.
The regulator said viewers should be familiar with the Top Gear host's "provocative and outspoken nature", The Guardian reported.
"It would have been clear to most viewers that his comments were not an expression of seriously held beliefs or views that would be literally interpreted," Ofcom said in a letter to the union Unison, which had lodged a complaint about the broadcast, the BBC reported.
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/celebrity/clarkson-dodges-bullet-over-should-be-shot-jibe-20120221-1tkep.html#ixzz1mzwkYLfh
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