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By Constantinos Ioannou
Published on December 8, 2010

POLICE Chief Michalis Papageorgiou is upset with state broadcaster CyBC for ridiculing him on the comedy satire show ‘Patates Antinaxtes’.

Papageorgiou has sent a letter to the show’s producers who have repeatedly screened skits featuring a character based on the police chief. In the letter Papageorgiou demanded that the producers immediately remove his character from the popular show.

Papageorgiou is featured on numerous episodes of the show. On November 28 he was depicted on the show as being self absorbed, someone that refers to himself in the third person, not bright, and a little scared of a well known felon.

A spokesman for the show said: “Management showed us the letter yesterday; Papageorgiou asked if we could remove his character from the show. We feel that it wouldn’t be fair to remove one character. We cannot be selective on who we pick to satire. If the President or the Archbishop called and wanted to be removed then we wouldn’t have a show.”

The spokesman said however that the final decision is not up to them, and if management wanted them to remove the character they would have no choice.

The spokesman was confident however that they would not have to completely remove the character from the show. Instead they would look to tone down the character of Papageorgiou, “I believe that we will find a middle ground with the police,” he said.

The spokesman wanted to stress the fact that the aim of the show was not to offend anyone personally. “They are not real characters they are just exaggerated almost cartoonish personalities. For example we depict the president as a character that cannot speak English and a hardcore Omonia fan. The Archbishop is portrayed as a businessman. They are not really like that” he said.

Police spokesman Michael Katsounotos was not so conciliatory, however saying: “The chief feels that they are insulting an institution, they are humiliating him personally and the position of the chief of police. It’s not like they use his character once in a while. It’s all the time”.

Katsounotos said that Papageorgiou had already spoken to the management of CyBC and asked that his character is removed from the show.

http://www.cyprus-mail.com/cyprus/polic ... y/20101208

No sense of humour some people!

[johbee]

"The chief feels that they are insulting an institution, they are humiliating him personally and the position of the chief of police." If I were him I would be embarrassed to tell anyone I was head of the most incompetent establishment in Cyprus. All this fool has to do is drive around town to see how inadequate the farce he leads is. If he worried more about doing his job and his image would improve.

[Get Real!]

What's there to debate here CBBB?

It's not going anywhere... but this has potential:

Baywatch actress 'singled out for body scan'

"It is my personal belief that they pulled me aside because they thought I was attractive"

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldne ... -scan.html

Correction... it's because you've got BIG tits!

[Cap]

Hey Michalis, get over it.
This isn't Anatolia were they'd get locked up or mysteriously disappear.
We have freedom of speech here in case you're still wondering. Bonehead.

[insan]

Hey Michalis, get over it.
This isn't Anatolia were they'd get locked up or mysteriously disappear.
We have freedom of speech here in case you're still wondering. Bonehead.

There's a huge difference between freedom of speech and insulting, violating someone's fundamental rights and freedoms...

In which civilized country people have the right to insult anyone by calling him or her bonehead?

... and u think u r an educated, knowledged, civilized person... You don't even know the meaning of freedom of speech...

[Gasman]

No satire please - we are Cypriot.

[supporttheunderdog]

Lord Acton said:

"I cannot accept your canon that we are to judge Pope and King unlike other men with a favourable presumption that they did no wrong. If there is any presumption, it is the other way, against the holders of power, increasing as the power increases. Historic responsibility has to make up for the want of legal responsibility. Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority: still more when you superadd the tendency or certainty of corruption by full authority. There is no worse heresy than the fact that the office sanctifies the holder of it. "

For Pope or King read Archbishop or President and include within holders of power our Police Chief.

As a holder of High Office Michalis is not immune to criticism and that includes when derlived by way of Satire.
Satire may be the one thing that will act as curb on full authority and minimise the tendency of holders of high office to be corrupted by the positions they hold.

As it is, if he cannot stand the heat he should either do something about it or get out!

[Cap]

Hey Michalis, get over it.
This isn't Anatolia were they'd get locked up or mysteriously disappear.
We have freedom of speech here in case you're still wondering. Bonehead.

There's a huge difference between freedom of speech and insulting, violating someone's fundamental rights and freedoms...

In which civilized country people have the right to insult anyone by calling him or her bonehead?

... and u think u r an educated, knowledged, civilized person... You don't even know the meaning of freedom of speech...

Its called 'Satire' Insan.

Here's an example.

[Gasman]

Insan - look up 'Spitting Image' an old UK TV show.

And 'Yes Minister' a UK TV series.

Both brilliantly funny satire.

[insan]

Hey Michalis, get over it.
This isn't Anatolia were they'd get locked up or mysteriously disappear.
We have freedom of speech here in case you're still wondering. Bonehead.

There's a huge difference between freedom of speech and insulting, violating someone's fundamental rights and freedoms...

In which civilized country people have the right to insult anyone by calling him or her bonehead?

... and u think u r an educated, knowledged, civilized person... You don't even know the meaning of freedom of speech...

Its called 'Satire' Insan.

Here's an example.

It's called satire, when u know how to pit ur wits against somebody... but when u don't know how to pit ur wits against somebody and that somebody tries to scare out of ur wits; then you both will be at ur wits' end... he/she might even bring it to trial...

Satire... relativity... laws... courts... resolution... abjudicating... dree your weird...

... then some people will call it as democracy; some others as a so-called democracy...