Any complaints?

Got a Christmas card from my financial adviser. I'd send one back but I can't afford it.
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Rules for reading newspapers (continued)...if something has attracted more than 1,000 complaints then it isn't actually offensive, but the target of a carefully co-ordinated complaining campaign.
It's not just one side that does it. For every Daily Mail outrage at Russell Brand and Jonathan Ross there's one that has been just as orchestrated against Jan Moir.
This week is a good example. More than 5,000 people have complained against scantily clad dance routines on the X Factor final but you can be sure that most of these are people who didn't watch the show but read about it later, probably in the Daily Mail.
On the other side of the fence, something between 500 and 1,000 predominantly Guardian readers have complained to the PCC about Richard Littlejohn's column in the Mail in which he took the mickey out of a wheelchair-bound protestor at the student rally who got beaten up by a copper.
The trouble with these is that it's actually hard to work out what causes genuine offence and what does not. And by genuine offence, I mean how many people are simply enjoying the chance to complain about the X Factor because they don't like it.
Personally, I find it offensive that Simon Cowell completely controls it all and that bland, boring karaoke singers are exploited at the expense of genuine musicians and bands who deserve the chance to be signed to a record label but don't get the exposure.
Similarly, if the Littlejohn complaints were genuinely from the disabled and not just people who don't like him (and that's a lot of people!) then I'd be more likely to think it caused genuine offence.
For the record, I've never complained, officially, to either the ASA, Ofcom, the PCC, the BBC or CBeebies.
But they've provided me with a rich source of stories (well, not so much CBeebies, of course.)
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I watched It's A Wonderful Life last night. All of it. I've seen it before of course. I believe there are only 17 people over 30 in Britain who have never seen it. It is truly, truly, beautiful.
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Farewell to blogging to Iain Dale, the West Ham supporting, Conservative who - despite giving me at least two reasons in that description alone to dislike him - actually wrote a damn fine blog. I wish him luck with his radio show.
Talking of show, Larry King is retiring this week, to be replaced by Piers Morgan, which a lot of people think is a big deal.
But frankly, have you actually seen a Larry King show in the last few years? They make Michael Parkinson look like Jeremy Paxman quite frankly. They are the most appalling sycophantic displays and whatever you think of Piers, I reckon he's going to be a massive improvement.
Thank you and good night...Solly