I’m reviewing The Man Whose Arms Exploded for Off The Telly. The question is, is it ethical to review a show you spent most of the time watching between your fingers? How about with your eyes closed and your hands over your ears so you couldn’t hear what was being described, too?
Sorry, but the guy performed operations on himself once his arms became infected and pussy…. I’m starting to feel ill again. I’ll rely on my wife’s descriptions for ‘colour detail’ then.
I’m Rob Buckley, a journalist who writes for UK media magazines that most people have never heard of although you might have heard me on the podcast Lockdown Land or Radio 5 Live’s Saturday Edition or Afternoon Edition. I’ve edited Dreamwatch, Sprocket and Cambridge Film Festival Daily; been technical editor for TV producers magazine Televisual; reviewed films for the short-lived newspaper Cambridge Insider; written features for the even shorter-lived newspaper Soho Independent; and was regularly sarcastic about television on the blink-and-you-missed-it “web site for urban hedonists” The Tribe. Since going freelance, I've contributed to the likes of Broadcast, Total Content + Media, Action TV, Off The Telly, Action Network, TV Scoop and The Custard TV.
I’m reviewing The Man Whose Arms Exploded for Off The Telly. The question is, is it ethical to review a show you spent most of the time watching between your fingers? How about with your eyes closed and your hands over your ears so you couldn’t hear what was being described, too?
