BBC Trust will not ‘intervene’ in BBC’s BNP Question Time decision
October 22nd, 2009Posted by Judith Townend in Broadcasting, Media releases
BBC Trust intervention in the BBC’s decision to allow BNP leader Nick Griffin onto Question Time would be at odds with the corporation’s constitutional arrangements, the regulatory body has said.
Therefore the Trust will not hear appeals, and complaints can only be made after transmission. The release stated:
“They [ad hoc Trust committee] took the view that the Charter and Agreement establishes the director-general as editor-in-chief of the BBC – the individual responsible for the editorial content of BBC programmes.”
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