How curious that the issue of the burden of proof in defamation is not even being explained to the listener by Peter Horrocks, who sounds a right softie while Michael Grade came across as just a little bit self-righteous and fascistic, and that is comment that would surely be regarded as fair by any right-minded jury if not a lawyer.
The person making the statement has to *justify* the statement being complained about by the plaintiff, and only *truth* justifies a statement that brings the complainant into hatred, ridicule and contempt by right-thinking members of society.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_9157000/9157348.stm
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The BBC has issued an unreserved apology to the charity Band Aid after BBC World Service radio broadcast a documentary alleging that aid money sent to Ethiopia in the 1980's had been stolen by rebel fighters. The former BBC chairman Michael Grade, who is a Band Aid trustee, reacts to the apology.
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The BBC has apologised for a documentary that gave the wrong impression that money donated to Band Aid in the mid 1980s ended up in the hands of rebel soldiers in Ethiopia. The documentary was first aired on the radio World Service and the allegations provoked a furious response from the Band Aid founder Sir Bob Geldof. BBC Global News director Peter Horrocks explains what went wrong.
Are the Toady journalists trying to suppress the reasons for this spectacular cave-in? Was it for ideological reasons?
Making the already over-burdened taxpayer give money to the Third World is after all totemic to bleeding heart Western liberalism.
Making the already over-burdened taxpayer give money to the Third World is after all totemic to bleeding heart Western liberalism.
Perhaps there are no longer enough right-thinking members of society left in this country after so many decades of demented liberalism, but I am sure there are still some left who are also taxpayers who could be put on a jury.
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