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It’s not often these days I am driven to contact those idiots at the ASA, but after seeing the aforementioned shopping TV debut of the woman last night purporting to be an expert on cleaning I feel I should at least inform them.
This, if it was if it was anything else, showed a complete lack of respect by the channel for the people watching. If you extend that view to everything else they sell, it certainly confirms that they think that they can literally tell the viewers anything without any effective challenge.
The girl I had on last night had absolutely nothing to do with cleaning in any professional capacity in my opinion. Where they got her from who knows. I just simply cannot work it out. Does she know somebody on the production team/a presenter? Was she just keen to get on television, even shopping television? I just don’t know.
She clearly had no knowledge whatsoever about the clothes dryer and looked like she and it just met as the cameras rolled. She was making outrageous and unsubstantiated claims. One in particular that she repeated several times with that tumble dryers ruin your clothing. Whilst it may be true that a tumble dryer at some point has ruined somebody’s clothing, I don’t think you can condemn the entire tumble dryer industry as one that ruins clothing. The watch shows stretch credibility to a massive degree, but I am still to recall any of their so-called experts saying this watch is great and all the other watch brands are ****… Another gaff that came to mind (there was so many) was that essentially you can’t get these anywhere now as everybody is buying them, or words to that effect. A proven claim? And…that all her friends were desperate to get hold of one. Which could, of course, be true, but when you put it in context of everything else she was saying, you suspect it wasn’t.
She was introduced as a cleaning expert with 19 years cleaning experience. That by implication suggests some sort of professional cleaning expertise, rather than the fact she may have picked up a duster for 19 years at home. In turn she proceeded to show us that she had no expertise she was prepared to reveal about cleaning. She also said she was building massive heating bills by putting all her washing on her radiators to dry. I don’t think a cleaning expert would be doing such a thing, as I would think they would realise the costs involved in doing that, and the ineffectiveness of the way you were doing it. The weak presenter just let her get away with it. Clearly not wanting to pull her up, so she just let her get on with it. Probably assuming nobody was watching anyway. An experienced presenter would’ve stopped her at a number of points
I watch shopping television these days in the main to have a laugh in print about it. But that demonstration last night actually made me angry because I felt sorry fundamentally for quite a number of the presumably vulnerable viewer buyers they have out there that they are exploiting by putting on presentations like that and producing people like that, dressing them up as experts in a subject they quite clearly absolutely not.
This, if it was if it was anything else, showed a complete lack of respect by the channel for the people watching. If you extend that view to everything else they sell, it certainly confirms that they think that they can literally tell the viewers anything without any effective challenge.
The girl I had on last night had absolutely nothing to do with cleaning in any professional capacity in my opinion. Where they got her from who knows. I just simply cannot work it out. Does she know somebody on the production team/a presenter? Was she just keen to get on television, even shopping television? I just don’t know.
She clearly had no knowledge whatsoever about the clothes dryer and looked like she and it just met as the cameras rolled. She was making outrageous and unsubstantiated claims. One in particular that she repeated several times with that tumble dryers ruin your clothing. Whilst it may be true that a tumble dryer at some point has ruined somebody’s clothing, I don’t think you can condemn the entire tumble dryer industry as one that ruins clothing. The watch shows stretch credibility to a massive degree, but I am still to recall any of their so-called experts saying this watch is great and all the other watch brands are ****… Another gaff that came to mind (there was so many) was that essentially you can’t get these anywhere now as everybody is buying them, or words to that effect. A proven claim? And…that all her friends were desperate to get hold of one. Which could, of course, be true, but when you put it in context of everything else she was saying, you suspect it wasn’t.
She was introduced as a cleaning expert with 19 years cleaning experience. That by implication suggests some sort of professional cleaning expertise, rather than the fact she may have picked up a duster for 19 years at home. In turn she proceeded to show us that she had no expertise she was prepared to reveal about cleaning. She also said she was building massive heating bills by putting all her washing on her radiators to dry. I don’t think a cleaning expert would be doing such a thing, as I would think they would realise the costs involved in doing that, and the ineffectiveness of the way you were doing it. The weak presenter just let her get away with it. Clearly not wanting to pull her up, so she just let her get on with it. Probably assuming nobody was watching anyway. An experienced presenter would’ve stopped her at a number of points
I watch shopping television these days in the main to have a laugh in print about it. But that demonstration last night actually made me angry because I felt sorry fundamentally for quite a number of the presumably vulnerable viewer buyers they have out there that they are exploiting by putting on presentations like that and producing people like that, dressing them up as experts in a subject they quite clearly absolutely not.
