Not a sheep: The Queen's visit to Ireland, the BBC's choice of guest to comment - Gerry Adams - and a complaint

Saturday 5 March 2011

The Queen's visit to Ireland, the BBC's choice of guest to comment - Gerry Adams - and a complaint

Further to this and this I have lodged a complaint with the BBC:

Complaint type: BBC News
Location: England
What is your complaint about: Radio News
Programme title: 5Live 10pm news bulletin Friday 5 March 2011
Transmission date: 05/03/2011
Complaint category: Offence
Complaint summary: Choosing to intreview Gerry Adams re the Queen's future visit to Ireland
Full complaint: BBC 5Live 10pm News carried a piece about the upcoming visit by the Queen to Ireland. The BBC chose one person to interview about this visit; not the BBC's royal correspondent but Sinn fein's Gerry Adams. So for an opinion on the first royal visit to Ireland for 100 years the BBC choose the man who lead an organisation (Sinn Fein), in the public's mind, intrinsically linked with the terrorist organisation (the IRA) that blew up and killed the Queen's uncle, Lord Mountbatten, in 1979. Did anybody at BBC 5Live News wonder if it might be a trifle tasteless to interview a leading figure in Sinn Fein about the visit of the Queen to Ireland bearing in mind that history?
Receive a reply: Yes
Contacted us before: Yes
Complaint related to previous contact: No
Title: Mr
First name: NotaSheep
Surname: MaybeaGoat
Email address: notasheepmaybeagoat@gmail.com
Under 13: No

I wonder how long I will have to wait for a reply and how the BBC will justify their choice of guest... Somehow I doubt that they will accept a breach of taste.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...: Also bearing in mind that we have the heart to let the queen into Ireland after her family murdering hundreds, probbibly thousands of innocent irish people over the past hundred to 2 hundred years!
yes, the IRA murdered her uncle but that still doesent justify bloody sunday in 1972 where 14 innocent civillions where murdered by her british army and many more wounded!
she even decorated the men involved in organising it with medels!; 6 March 2011 at 18:08

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