BBC Panorama - Eurovision's Dirty Secret

[Sean]

I thought the same thing!

And it happened in the post just after mine o.o

 

[MrJadeEwen]

Meh it's Panorama, they did the corruption of FIFA round the football and Titanic at it's anniversairy a few years back, it's nothing new xD If anything it'll get more people watching eurovision/knowing it's actually on. I don't think it'll have any effect on results. At least eurovision is getting a fair share of publicity this year good & bad.

 

[A-lister]

Western countries tried to help Iraq (excluding Kurdish part), Libya, Egypt and only made it worse.

I don't agree that your country should be free from criticism, but I do agree with this comment 100%!

 

[Synergise]

Aaaand that's one country who won't be voting for us!

 

[FallenAngelII]

None of this is really news. Aftonbladet, a Swedish tabloid that relies mostly on external sources (i.e. other newspapers) for non-domestic news has covered all of that. And most of it is quite old. Hopefully they'll reveal more than in that synopsis.

 

[MyHeartIsYours]

I don't agree that your country should be free from criticism, but I do agree with this comment 100%!

Politics!

 

[Mickey]

OMG typical of BBC! Western countries superiority complex (including my own's) is unbearable. Az tv could do the same and tell the world some US/EU/UK dirty secrets too...

Panorama does a pretty good job of exposing UK dirty secrets itself.

 

[bashers]

It'll be interesting...new news or not. At the end of the day Azerbaijan shouldn't be treating people like the way they do. Fact.

 

[MyHeartIsYours]

^ xyeah

 

[A-lister]

Politics!

 

[ukboy]

The programme will be good in that it will promote the UK to watch Eurovision. There is alot of hype around the contest being in Azerbaijan, as not many people know much about the country. There was a hype like this when Estonia held the contest and there was alot of coverage over the country's politics and finances. In the end the UK love Estonia I woudnt worry too much, they will only tell it, how it is. I know nothing about Azerbaijan, so I'm watching it with a open view. Cant wait to watch it tonight.

 

[MyHeartIsYours]

I think it will shock a lot of people - we already know what the situation is, but I imagine the general public wont. It is good to get the message out there, I think I will find myself asking myself at the end of it whether it's really moral to support this this year.

 

[ukboy]

I imagine the general public wont

That would be me

 

[BGN]

Bulgarian media claim that Eurovision win costs $5 mln . They say that it's eneough to buy some key national juries and to make them lobby for you. In the schema are involved also people from EBU according these informations. Also countries, which are not involved in this are punished with the results. Media here say that Bulgaria gave more than 6 points to a winner only in 2005 (12 points to Greece).
So let's see what will say on BBC

 

[ukboy]

About to start now on BBC One

 

[Mickey]

I think it will shock a lot of people - we already know what the situation is, but I imagine the general public wont. It is good to get the message out there, I think I will find myself asking myself at the end of it whether it's really moral to support this this year.

Watching and enjoying Eurovision is a completely different thing to supporting the government of the host nation (at least on tv, perhaps more complicated if you're spending money there in person). If anything, the attention on them is a good thing. Eurovision shines the media spotlight on problems like those in Azerbaijan.

I don't agree with people who say "Eurovision is nothing to do with politics". Any international competition of this scale becomes political and well it should. You can't hold this sort of event in a bubble cocooned from the outside world.

 

[Sean]

Pretty sensationalist as expected but it was interesting. My mum didn't know about the voting in 2009 so this doc might interest people a bit more in Eurovision

 

[mono]

what happened in 2009? omg i so want to watch this!

 

[ukboy]

what happened in 2009? omg i so want to watch this!

Azerbaijani TV pulled the plug while the Armenian entry was on ( I voted for it in the UK ). The BBC were interviewing a man, who said he was questioned about why he had voted for Armenia. He was told he was ''part of a criminal investigation''

 

[mono]

Azerbaijani TV pulled the plug while the Armenian entry was on ( I voted for it in the UK ). The BBC were interviewing a man, who said he was questioned about why he had voted for Armenia. He was told he was ''part of a criminal investigation''

oh i remember! actually at the time i thought why the EBU didnt did anything about that...