Live Coverage: Germaine Greer's Alternative MacTaggart

Highlights of Germaine Greer's speech, where she mainly raised "concerns" about the ubiquity of television and filming.

- "Reality television is both a tautology and an oxymoron. It is a tautology because our reality now includes television and it is an oxymoron because what we see is not real."
- "Lord Birt is optimistic about the future of TV. He should perhaps keep his eye out for alligators coming from the right!"
- Despite her concerns about television, Greer admitted to having five televisions in her home, including one just for her dogs.
- On her stay in the Big Brother house: "I self-censored: I kept my body still. I never went into the diary room because I didn't want to acknowledge Big Brother's power over me. It was pretty shit... and when they changed what I thought was the rules, I just knew I had to get out of there."
- On BB6: "Did Kinga really mean, in her desperate exhibitionism, to humiliate herself to that extent? I don't see how she can get over it if she continues to be exploited by the media as a silly slag."

Full roundup of Greer's BB-related comments to follow on DS:BB tomorrow.