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Comments
Mark Thompson
Director General of the BBC
BBC Television Centre
Wood Lane
London
W12 7RT
24th January 2009
Dear Mr. Thompson,
Beyond the pale, is a term significantly appropriate to the BBC's decision to prohibit the humanitarian call for the relief of the victims of Israeli oppression in Gaza and one upon which you might well ponder. I refer to the tyrannical containment of Jews who were once permitted to live only within a designated area of Russia.
Your action is clearly not humanitarian and its consequences are manifold. Riding as you plainly do upon the pale of political approval you have alienated many like myself who protest you have a duty to put aside corporate cowardice and behave decently.
The tide Mr. Thompson is not in your favour and at a time when the BBC needs friends it is a pity to see the BBC, a once reputable institution make yet another egregious policy decision thus adding lamentably to its scandals of persecuting David Kelly while affording protection to Jonathon Ross. In hindsight I'm sure that even you can see there is something fundamentally rotten in the state of your office. I will not protest when the government hacks off your profitable publishing arm, siphons your licence fees, infiltrates your administration and arranges your marriage to the ailing Channel 4.
On a final note of outrage, I will mourn the demise of Channel Four's courageous and moral current affairs editorial policies when its teeth are pulled by the gummy mouths, while at the mercy of those same BBC committee members, whose pensions are so important and of whom it has been said, "The sum total of committee is fear."
I spent thirty years in the broadcasting industry loyal to the tenet of impartiality,
Yours, no longer,
Terence Steel
Copy: Roger Alton, The Independent.
I couldn't agree more with Mr. Steel's sentiments and logic expressed. I'm so disappointed in the BBC's cowardice. The crisis wrought upon innocent civilians in Gaza is certainly a humanitarian matter. Since when has the BBC shied away from broadcasting calls for humanitarian aid? It is a normal aspect of news reporting. The censoring of a call for such aid is extraordinary and unconscionable.
Sincerely,
Disgusted
More or less by chance I stumbled across Jeremy Laurence's article dated 30.3.2004 regarding the BMA having failed to back cases for race discrimination against the NHS. I wonder whether the decisions to compensate some colleagues for alleged race and sex discrimination has put patients at risk as at least one of those doctors mentioned in that article has been causing a trail of complaints against herself over the past few years after being appointed as consultant anaesthetist, and now has been referred to the GMC.
It seems to me that some doctors are just hiding their incompetence behind the colour of their skin, accusing their peers of being racists or sexists. The fear of getting sued and to pay compensation to these applicants may have been the reason that some trusts appointed some doctors into consultant posts against all reason.
It might be a case for Jeremy to investigate how many of these doctors mentioned in his article made a successful career as consultants after all, and how many failed.
Could this be a New Entertainment show for Daily Mail readers???
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXFx0Ynz
Well it's certainly comedy.
Featuring Paul Ross.
Kind Regards,
Guy Press
Producer / Director
TV or NOT TV?
g.press@btinternet.com