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.