iPM revisits Thought for the Day issue

On Saturday iPM revisited the TFTD issue, handling it more competently than the first time. I have commented on their blog page.

The next step

Mark Damazer is refusing to defend his decision to allow Thought for the Day to remain in its current form despite the hundreds of complaints. He still thinks it’s a “difficult” question and has suggested people take their arguments to the BBC Trust. So that is the next thing to do.

Here is the page about how to complain to the BBC.

First of all, you follow the BBC’s “executive complaints procedure” (which in this case will probably go nowhere, despite your being right). You then place an appeal against their decision, and there are details of how to do that on the page I have referenced.

Personally I do not listen to The Today Programme any more. I find it is just too full of religious appeasement and am sick of TFTD coming on just as I am starting my day. In fact I am going off Radio 4 as a whole because of its political correctness. I feel like an old friend is betraying me. They’re not listening to me, so I’m disinclined to listen to them.

But the cause is still worthy, so people, feel free to take this to the BBC Trust and upwards…