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Re: Christianity the pressure group (Score: 1)
by davidb (-) on Jan 19, 2005 - 11:54 AM

I'm very pro free speech, so I had no intention of complaining to the BBC about Jerry Springer. However, in the end, I surprisingly did, but with a different take. This was because I got irritated when I noticed the following binding agreement between the BBC and and the Secretary of State for National Heritage:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/info/policies/charter/pdf/agreement_text.shtml

Looking at 5.1 (d) and (e), I can't see any way that the BBC are keeping to their agreement, so I've asked them to explain how they're interpreting this. They've yet to answer satisfactorily - they just send me waffle about free speech, which I've already told them I believe in. Here's how I end one of my emails to them:

"What this teaches me is this: there is a vast difference between being in favour of free speech (which I am, and clearly you are) and behaving according to patterns which you have bound yourself to (which as far as I can see, you are not). I'm not impressed with a corporation that bends its own rules when it feels like it."