It was when I first heard the term \u201ccomply with compliance\u201d that I started getting worried. Because I laughed, but the person I was speaking to did not.<\/p>\n
A lot of schoolkids could tell us that the expression is technically meaningless, yet it has come to suggest a chain of invisible command that one fondly imagines might have to vet every sentence that passes through its portals. I suspect it sounds a lot more \u201cStalinist\u201d than it really is simply because the wording suggests that everyone is chasing their own tails. Still, this piece is well worth a read: Mark Lawson in today\u2019s Grauniad asks whether censorshop is taking over the BBC..<\/a>. I especially love the half-paragraph about Radio 3. I\u2019ll never forget the time the music magazine office I was working in nearly went up in smoke because we heard that a well-known lady presenter on our favourite station had inadvertently let slip the word \u201cF***\u201d.<\/p>\n But I don\u2019t think censorship at the Beeb is anything new \u2013 see previous comments re Glock et al. What was<\/em> new was the idiotic pandering to \u2018comedians\u2019 who were paid silly money from our licence fees and didn\u2019t have to produce, to earn it, anything that was genuinely funny. There\u2019s got to be a happy medium between that sort of nonsense and its \u2018comply with compliance\u2019 opposite\u2026somewhere\u2026\u2026 <\/p>\n <\/i><\/a><\/i><\/a><\/i><\/a><\/i><\/a><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n No related posts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It was when I first heard the term “comply with compliance” that I started getting worried. Because I laughed, but the person I was speaking to did not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7048,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ondrocks2000.com\/standpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ondrocks2000.com\/standpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ondrocks2000.com\/standpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ondrocks2000.com\/standpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ondrocks2000.com\/standpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ondrocks2000.com\/standpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ondrocks2000.com\/standpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ondrocks2000.com\/standpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ondrocks2000.com\/standpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ondrocks2000.com\/standpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/h3>\n