I once made a complaint to the BBC about their coverage of a story on the R1 news about sexual assaults in Greece, and that they focussed entirely on what women should be doing, and said nothing condemnatory about the attacks. The three responses I got (because I contacted all the addresses they gave) all said "you're over-reacting", and there was nothing wrong. I think we'd get exactly the same for this, but I think I want to try anyway.
There are complaints procedures to the individual papers and organisations, but I'm not sure how to go about this. I might try to work on a really good letter that I can send to places each time, and try to encourage others to send it to, although I'm not sure what good that might have.
I'm sure that they're hiding behind a legal thing, but it's completely different from "alleged rapist", which is a phrase I do really agree with them saying, but "alleged attack" is ridiculous.
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Date: 2005-07-12 03:22 am (UTC)There are complaints procedures to the individual papers and organisations, but I'm not sure how to go about this. I might try to work on a really good letter that I can send to places each time, and try to encourage others to send it to, although I'm not sure what good that might have.
I'm sure that they're hiding behind a legal thing, but it's completely different from "alleged rapist", which is a phrase I do really agree with them saying, but "alleged attack" is ridiculous.