‘Convicted paedophile’ Jonathan King has successfully won an apology from the BBC, after they attempted to airbrush him out of pop history by removing his many 70’s and 80’s appearances from re-runs of British chart show the ‘Top of the Pops’.
Repeats of the show from 1976 are being shown on BBC Four, but King’s appearance in April that year with his number nine hit It Only Takes A Minute was removed.
King, now 66, was jailed in 2001 after being convicted at the Old Bailey of sex offences against boys aged 14 and 15. He was released in 2005 after serving half his seven-year sentence.
Mr Thompson apologised after King complained that he had been left out of a Top of the Pops repeat shown in April this year, in what he described as a “Stalinist” revision of history.
BBC apologises to Jonathan King (Telegraph UK)
The splendid Rod Liddle, one of the few mainstream media journalists who has obvious men’s rights leanings, had this to say about it in The Spectator :
On the BBC issue, as Terence Blacker pointed out in The Independent, if you removed from Top of the Pops all performers who somehow offended liberal sensibilities you’d be left with a very short show.King was convicted via the offices of Max Clifford, of course, almost twenty years after the alleged offences took place. There was no corroborating evidence and King was effectively unable to defend himself. At least one of the men who claimed he had enjoyed consensual sex with King (there was never a suggestion that the sex was anything other than consensual) later admitted he was over the age of consent at the time. King had believed them all to be over sixteen. Anyway, as a consequence, he lost his liberty for a remarkable seven years and has become a sort of pariah — which is a shame, because he is a very clever man and, as I later found out, extremely good company. He has made a film of the case against him called Vile Pervert: The Musical which is a fantastically berserk, bravado performance. You can download it from the computer thing, if you want.
The Daily Mail was not quite so sympathetic, and certainly not it’s readers. Reading the comment section underneath their article BBC forced to apologise to paedophile Jonathan King makes for rather disturbing reading.
King himself is indignant at being described as a paedophile :
Paedophile? Someone who finds children sexually attractive? Not me – either in fact or in the law. A child is defined as “a person under the age of 14” by the Children and Young Persons Act 1933 (never repealed)….
…Interesting that the Telegraph have stopped using the word “paedophile”… accuracy in language is an essential in civilisation.
If that’s the case, King should have the balls to sue the Daily Mail for describing him as a pedophile, not to mention press charges for publishing clear incitements to murder (the comments wishing that King be executed, ‘permanently erased from the face of the Earth’ etc.).
Or at least, not to let convicted child rapists (Locked Out) on his forum repeatedly accuse other forum members of being paedophiles for suggesting that 14 year old non-children might be able to consent to sex.
Anyone bothered to check how many criminals are on the top pop charts? Those who committed real non-consensual crimes like murder, shootings, serious wife beatings, etc?
I am quite sure that some gangsta rappers have criminal records. And stay in the charts.
Anyone ever wants to remove those from the charts? Well, maybe the wife beaters? Certainly not the man-shooters.
Well, I forgot, that sex with adolescents is non-consensual by definition. So if he had consensual sex it was non-consensual. Makes sense
Yes means No! Forcibly raping a 17 year old is the same rape as consensual love making.
I would assume that a massive number of those working in the music industry, an industry which depends on adults understanding the tastes and psychology of adolescents, are ephebophiles.
Jonathan King makes the point that ‘everybody was at it’ back in the 60’s and 70’s. In fact, you weren’t a real rock star if you weren’t banging underage groupies. Jonathan King was picked out, essentially, because of latent homophobia, and because he makes a good pantomine paedo (but not quite as good as Gary Glitter does).
I assume Bill Wyman wouldn’t have picked 13 year old Mandy Smith out of the audience and taken her as his lover if paedohysteria had been present back in the day. I guess he would have kept it in his pants and just jerked off later fantasising about her.
Now it seems people (who have gone too old) are forbidden to have sex anymore.
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The said victim was 15 years of age.