If
@Null is going to talk about
the gay BBC paedophile Huw Edwards on Friday's show, I strongly recommend watching the "satirical" broadcast TV series
Brass Eye's
special episode called Paedogeddon (
archive) that aired back in 2001. It is a bizarre view into what powerful people think about paedophilia, and it also
starred many celebrities (
archive). For reference though, it was not a BBC production.
It has a strange reputation among journalists too. Just searching for the episode online returns a number of articles from influential publications praising it, such as
The Atlantic (
WayBack Machine,
archive.ph,
Ghost Archive),
The Guardian (
WayBack Machine,
archive.ph,
Ghost Archive), and
The AV Club (
WayBack Machine,
archive.ph,
Ghost Archive). They all mostly dismiss the criticism of the episode, framing the public concern about paedophiles as irrational, accusing audiences of being too dumb to realise it's satire, and condescendingly declaring media reporting these stories as the
real villains
. The press may sensationalise, but the show and its supporters use that as a means to diminish the seriousness of the paedo problem. In 2009, someone even wrote
an academic paper (
attached to post,
WayBack Machine,
archive.ph, Ghost Archive mirror failed) with many of the same talking points.
Here's a local archive of the episode. It's very weird to watch, especially now. And keep in mind this aired
over a year after the
South Park episode
Cartman Joins NAMBLA, which is an actually funny satire of paedophilia.