s a sham says, "The people who work for this paper and cunts and the people who read this paper are cunts. So you just do it." That's all right then.
             Which brings us, briefly, to the Chris Morris series. It was about raising doubt; questioning whether what you see and read in the media is real and truthful. It parodied the media's obsession with hysteria and panics. It proved how easy it is to get people to talk. It invited us to doubt whether the usual parade of spokespersons the media call on actually know what they are talking about. In some cases it was painfully obvious they didn't. And the newspaper story proves Morris's point very well - the fact that no on outside of the Morris team and senior executives at C4 could have seen the Sutcliffe sketch (much less in the context of the finished programme) was never likely to get in the way of a little moral panic and a class A TV outrage story.
             By now the story was out. Other papers, particularly those in Yorkshire, where reheating the original and adding quotes from their own local MPs. They won't have seen it either. No matter. Still, C4 seemed to be riding this one out.
             Sources close to the programme insist that the Sutcliffe sketch still part of the programme when Michael Grade jetted out to Loa Angeles a week before it was to be broadcast (last Wednesday [printed in the paper as 'Wednesdasy']). Because of the amount of media heat trained on the Morris series (see sidebar opposite [actually, see below- Arp]) Grade had taken a personal interest. He had left a didactic note outlining which parts of the programme he wanted the lawyers to do further work on.
             Two months earlier Grade had reviewed the defence which the lawyers would present if challenged by the ITC on the Sutcliffe sketch. There was a stack of documentation making a case for that programme and that sketch. Those working on it were left in no doubt he was happy that the sketch could probably go out. But in the...