[Media-watch] FW: message from BBC I received after complaining

david Miller david.miller at stir.ac.uk
Sat Mar 1 12:22:55 GMT 2003


for information: a complaint to the BBC.  Let's all start writing to them...

>From: "Mark Damazer"
>To: 
>Subject: RE: tomorrow's peace march
>Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2003 11:47:22 -0000
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> Dear Ms. Culver, 
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> Thank you for your email.
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> Senior journalists who make the key editorial decisions about
>our output - or who report and present the news - hold positions of
>considerable responsibility. It is essential that BBC News maintains
>its impartiality - and as taking part in an anti-war demonstration is in
>the broad sense a political act, this would constitute a conflict of
>interest. 
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> This is not an easy area - but on this occasion I believe we
>struck an appropriate balance between the BBC's need to protect its
>reputation for fairness with the rights of individuals.
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> MARK DAMAZER, 
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> Deputy Director, BBC News.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Carolyne Culver [mailto:carolyneculver at hotmail.com]
> Sent: 14 February 2003 14:49
> To: Mark Damazer 
> Subject: tomorrow's peace march
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> Dear Mark Damazer,
> 
> I am disappointed to hear that senior editorial decision makers
>and news reporters have been advised not to attend tomorrow's peace
>march. I work in Save the Children's press office and a large proportion
>of our staff will be attending the march in a personal capacity. The
>charity is not affiliated to the Stop the War movement or any one of the
>organisations organising the march, but recognises individuals' right to
>act in line with their consciences. It saddens me that the BBC, an
>organisation for which I have a lot of respect, is unable to treat its
>staff in the same fashion.
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> Yours faithfully,
> 
> Carolyne Culver 
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