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Tonight's programming schedule for Channel 5. See if you can spot a pattern. 9PM: The Great Big Benefits Wedding Live 10PM: 12 Years Old & On Benefits 11PM: Benefits and Bypasses: Billion Pound Payments 12AM: Undercover Benefits Cheat (self.unitedkingdom)

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[–]bacon_cakeDorset ☔ 20ポイント21ポイント  (8子コメント)

Jesus christ. They're really onto a winner with this shite aren't they? What I never understand is who on earth would agree to be in these shows?

[–]lightsaberon 20ポイント21ポイント  (1子コメント)

People who are desperate for money, like those on benefits. There's nothing quite like exploiting the poor.

[–]jong123 1ポイント2ポイント  (2子コメント)

I wonder who watches them as well.

[–]DerelictMuntersnatch 6ポイント7ポイント  (1子コメント)

The poor with their usual Great British Crab MentalityTM

[–]KarmaUK [スコア非表示]  (1子コメント)

I'm fairly sure they tell people they're want to hear their real stories as they're making a sympathetic show portraying the real lives and problems of living on benefits.

Then once they've signed, fuck em.

[–]DaleyT [スコア非表示]  (0子コメント)

The most recent series of Benefits Street wasn't so bad, it did highlight a few of the issues the residence had, like the local job searches being cut and the single mum trying to care for her severely disabled son, on very little money. But if you looked on twitter etc to see the reaction, that sort of thing was completely ignored and people just want to vilify the unemployed. It's even more strange that a lot of the 'tweeters' look to be teenagers, who likely have parents themselves that are struggling to make ends meet, and rely on some-sort of benefit to top their incomes up.

[–]YellowbenzeneGlasgow [スコア非表示]  (0子コメント)

The same people who go on Jeremy Kyle

[–]cakeshop 50ポイント51ポイント  (4子コメント)

I'd rather watch 9PM: The Great Big Tax Avoidance Wedding Live 10PM: 12 Years a Non-Dom & Avoiding Tax 11PM: Tax Avoidance and Bypasses: Trillion Pound Payments 12AM: Undercover Tax Avoider

[–]imRegistering2Wales 23ポイント24ポイント  (0子コメント)

But that requires investigative journalism! Its so much easier to go to deprived areas and pay them to film their lives.

[–]SobeyHarker 6ポイント7ポイント  (2子コメント)

Definitely. In fact this was a great spot by OP. I think people should be talking about this as day in and day out we see so much on victimising the poorer classes.

It's not much, as what can we do, really? But I'm going to be tweeting about it and seeing if I can generate discussion on Twitter as it's a visible way to show my contempt of their agenda.

I recommend people do the same if you feel this way too.

[–]thebritishredditor[🍰] 3ポイント4ポイント  (1子コメント)

I hope you don't mind, seeing as you've posted a link here, but I've posted that around other subs I frequent to try and get it noticed. Complaining about things beyond Reddit does sometimes help.

[–]SobeyHarker [スコア非表示]  (0子コメント)

That's quite alright. If you tweet or start making noise about this elsewhere let me know as I'll join you.

[–]losimagicUnited Kingdom 18ポイント19ポイント  (0子コメント)

What time is 'The Benefits Boy With An Arse For A Face' on?

[–]tumblrthrowaways 14ポイント15ポイント  (5子コメント)

The 12 year old programme doesn't seem too bad, actually.

"11-year-old Jessica and her three sisters live with their mother near Clacton. Money was already tight, but since their dad left the family has fallen on even harder times. Jessica is afraid of her family collapsing and her mother not being able to cope under the financial strain. Jessicaʼs mother regularly goes without food so that she can feed the children.

12-year-old Jack lives in a damp-riddled home in Leeds, despite suffering from asthma which has caused him to miss many days at school. Jack dreams of going on holiday one day, but right now his main concern is whether his mother will cope with having a new baby. Without their grandmother, he says, they would not be able to pay the bills. Jack is distraught when his pregnant mother is taken to hospital with severe cramps.

15-year-old Blue and her three sisters are often bullied at school for wearing worn-out clothes. Her worst nightmare is no-uniform day at school, which is when she suffers the most teasing. Blue talks candidly about her growing weight, a result of comfort eating caused by the bullying. Her proud and resourceful family are trying to get themselves off benefits by starting a tattoo parlour. Blueʼs mother desperately tries to keep everyoneʼs spirits up by creating free family holidays—camping in the back garden. The family even create their own ʻtake awayʼ dinners, made from home-cooked food wrapped in paper."

[–]jong123 5ポイント6ポイント  (0子コメント)

Christ that last one is depressing.

[–]DoomslicerNorwich 41ポイント42ポイント  (5子コメント)

Almost as if the very very rich can afford to sponsor TV propaganda campaigns, while the very very poor cannot.

[–]Sir_Bantersaurus 8ポイント9ポイント  (0子コメント)

Probably more a case of it being cheaper, easier and even more popular to do these programs.

[–]FrankehSouth East [スコア非表示]  (1子コメント)

People just like poverty porn. Makes themselves feel better about themselves.

It's not a grand conspiracy. It's just what people want to watch.

[–]orwellsocietyguy [スコア非表示]  (0子コメント)

Sadly this is true. Most of the people I know / come across seem to be pretty badly off and consume this stuff with glee. When you're at the bottom it's alway since to look down on someone. The BBC addressed this a little while ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2k1iRD2f-c

[–]Airbiscuits_seenNarfolk [スコア非表示]  (0子コメント)

I dont think its so much propoganda, its more that C5 love that which induces rage (and pulls in viewers).

[–]mildbuzz 27ポイント28ポイント  (3子コメント)

trying to get us to hate the poor

[–]ruizscarSouth America 4ポイント5ポイント  (0子コメント)

#2ndClassCitizens

[–]GhiestukHampshire [スコア非表示]  (0子コメント)

I think this is the root of it really, I started to get the same feeling a few months ago as the OP on this and saw that the frequency on them showing anti-immigrant and benefit dependants on tv. The conspiricist in me thinks it's the government/rich trying to push the line of poor/ill/immigrant - We don't want you here. Trying to divert our eyes and attention to the poor and downtrodden rather than the super rich and corporations bending us over.

[–]AquaSuperBatManUnited Kingdom [スコア非表示]  (0子コメント)

It is the great circle of hating poverty: because there is a huge number of people who already hate "benefit scroungers" it pays them to make shows about hating the poor, and because of these shows everyone hates the poor even more.

[–]Toastcleaner 5ポイント6ポイント  (1子コメント)

While it seems obvious that these will all be along the same lines of 'aren't poor people just scroungers', I was curious and googled. The 12 years old one is the opposite and sounds very sympathetic to people struggling, at least going by the synopsis (I haven't seen nor plan to watch the program)

http://www.channel5.com/shows/12-years-old-on-benefits/episodes/benefits-through-a-childs-eyes

[–]potpan0Black Country 10ポイント11ポイント  (0子コメント)

From what I understand, a lot of these type of programmes have a bit of both. However, at least from personal experience with my nan, the 'benefit scrounger' types leave much more of an impression, despite being a minority.

[–]DogBotherer 5ポイント6ポイント  (4子コメント)

Any coincidence that C5 is now owned by an American multinational corporation? It's no longer a dripfeed but a veritable deluge of propaganda to line us up on the other side of the Atlantic.

[–]omrog 2ポイント3ポイント  (3子コメント)

I thought it was owned/managed by that wrister that owned the Daily Star.

[–]DogBotherer 0ポイント1ポイント  (2子コメント)

Viacom now, I think.

[–]omrog 1ポイント2ポイント  (1子コメント)

Ah, I must have missed that takeover. As I see from the article you posted:

The US media company, which announced its £450m takeover of Richard Desmond’s Channel 5 in May, has been given unconditional clearance from the European Commission to close the deal.

I remember Channel 5 starting out and even now it's so crap I often forget it still exists.

[–]DogBotherer 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

Yeah. I've only been watching it recently because it had the Ashes highlights, otherwise it wouldn't even be on my radar.

[–]DeadeyeDuncanOil-and-strippers-ville 4ポイント5ポイント  (2子コメント)

Who the fuck watches Channel 5 if they have a choice anyway?

[–]Lolworth💂 London 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

People on benefits

[–]idrinkirnbruUnited Kingdom [スコア非表示]  (0子コメント)

I remember the day 5 launched. It was like watching scrambled Sky the signal was so shit out in the countryside haha

[–]SobeyHarker 2ポイント3ポイント  (0子コメント)

Good spot OP! There's really such a blitz of anti-poorer class warfare going on at the moment.

[–]bod1988Northamptonshire 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

They can show what they want. No one will watch anyway

[–]upboatsallroundSussex 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

Who the fuck watches channel 5 anyway ?

[–]TheresaGoebbelsMay👀 -1ポイント0ポイント  (0子コメント)

pure #spectacle

[–]sphericalfuck the EU. -2ポイント-1ポイント  (0子コメント)

is this like jeremy kyle for people who work ?

[–]ammobandannaCo. Durham [スコア非表示]  (0子コメント)

channel 5 is still running ?? yet another reason im pleased i dont have a licence anymore.