Gavin Orland » TFTD: Ofcom reply

TFTD: Ofcom reply

Thursday 8th January 2009 13:38 in Religion | No comments

I’ve just received a reply from Ofcom regarding my complaint about Thought for the Day:

Ofcom reply (PDF, 1.17 MB) — Downloaded 2 times

They say quite bluntly:

“This is not a matter in which Ofcom can intervene.”

This, despite the fact that the rules of their Broadcasting Code:

“not only cover harm and offence, but also other areas like impartiality and accuracy, sponsorship and commercial references as well as fairness and privacy”

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Well, at least there is a debate about this now on the iPM blog, and a mention of the issue on PM, so it should grow from here.

I do hope that the many well put arguments are actually listened to by the BBC: we’re not doing this for the fun of it. TFTD is an unjustified anomaly on The Today Programme.

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