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Whitehouse’s choices of cultural targets ranged from the predictable to the bizarre. When she protested against the cult sci-fi show “Dr. Who” (claiming that it provoked nightmares) and the song “My Ding-a-ling,” she became an easy figure of fun. But she was also the first person to raise awareness of pedophile pornography in Britain, and she introduced the idea of public accountability in broadcasting. “Partly thanks to her, television is no longer run from on high by cloistered executives answerable, basically, to themselves,” wrote London’s Guardian.
But despite being pelted with eggs repeatedly and receiving numerous death threats, she stayed her course. Even a BBC spokesman, quoted in the Birmingham Post, acknowledged that Whitehouse “kept broadcasters on their toes....She will be long remembered.”
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