Daily Telegraph
issues correction
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Jerry
Springer: The Opera
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July 20th's
Daily Telegraph, in reporting the BBC Governors' Annual General
Meeting, incorrectly stated that Deborah Bull was the member of the
Governor's Programme Complaints Committee who opposed the showing of
Jerry Springer: The Opera. The comments the paper attributed to
Deborah Bull were in fact made by Angela Sarkis.
The Annual General Meeting and the findings of the GPCC can both be
accessed on the BBC Governors' website at
bbcgovernors.co.uk
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Text of the Daily Telegraph
correction:
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Yesterday's report of the BBC governors' meeting
should have stated that Angela Sarkis, not Deborah Bull, was the
governor opposed to the showing of Jerry Springer - The Opera.
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Extract from BBC.co.uk
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There were also gripes about Jerry Springer - The
Opera, which received 47,000 complaints before it was screened in
January, and 8,000 complaints afterwards.
Former ballerina Deborah Bull, who has been a BBC governor since 2003,
defended the BBC's decision to screen the controversial musical, which
depicted Jesus, God and Mary as talk show guests in Hell.
"It's not the governors' role to ban programmes before they are
broadcast, but we did not ignore the strength of feeling," she said.
"We had to balance that with the BBC's duty to protect freedom of
speech and innovation in the arts." |
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