{"id":1293,"date":"2005-11-25T22:05:09","date_gmt":"2005-11-25T21:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/ijwp\/mt.php\/2005\/11\/25\/bbc_caves_in_to_complaints"},"modified":"2025-10-11T11:38:23","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T10:38:23","slug":"bbc_caves_in_to_complaints","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/mt.php\/2005\/11\/25\/bbc_caves_in_to_complaints","title":{"rendered":"BBC caves in to complaints"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/entertainment\/4471494.stm\">The BBC reports<\/a> that its governors have caved in to pressure from hundreds of &quot;listeners&quot; and found that a <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/programmes\/from_our_own_correspondent\/\">From Our Own Correspondent<\/a> report on the <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/programmes\/from_our_own_correspondent\/3966139.stm\">final departure of Yasir Arafat from Ramallah<\/a> breached its guidelines.  One might note that the report on the governors&#39; decision lacks any link to the original report (which is still there), nor even to the FOOC home page.  There is serious cowardice on display here; it perhaps reflects on the organisation&#39;s timidity, remarked on in both the <em>New Statesman<\/em> and the <em>Spectator<\/em> in the past few weeks (the reports will have been removed from free view), which has been brought on by the Hutton report.  Personally I can see how the reference to the author&#39;s personal emotions was out of the ordinary for the BBC, but it could only have provoked hundreds of complaints if a group of people who had an axe to grind decided to organise a letter-writing campaign.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The BBC reports that its governors have caved in to pressure from hundreds of &quot;listeners&quot; and found that a From Our Own Correspondent report on the final departure of Yasir Arafat from Ramallah breached&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p17bgV-kR","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1293"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42715,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1293\/revisions\/42715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}