On 29 Nov 2006 18:32:17 GMT, MI5-Victim@mi5.gov.uk wrote:
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>Gagged by BBC Ariel's editor
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>On 25 June 1997 I wrote to Landmark Publishing Services, who deal with advertising for the BBC's in-house magazine Ariel.
>I requested they run an advert "BBC Newsreaders Spying on my Home" in the Personal column. They accepted my instructions
>and payment, and the following advert did indeed run in Ariel's issue of 8 July 1997.
>
>Following the successful placement of this small ad, I wrote again to Landmark on 17 July 1997, requesting they run exactly
>the same advert for 10 issues, enclosing payment. Unfortunately, the advert did not appear in any further issues of Ariel,
>because Ariel's editor Robin Reynolds nixed it. Here is an email from Elaine Smith of Landmark dated 26 August 1997.
>
>Date: Tue, 26 Aug 1997 09:34:25 +0100 (BST)
>X-Sender: landmark@194.112.32.30
>From: elaine@lps.co.uk (Elaine Smith)
>Subject: Re: advert - ariel
>
>With regard to your E-mail of 22 August 1997 concerning your advertisement
>in the Ariel magazine.
>
>I was instructed by Ariel to remove your advertisement from the classified
>pages as they were not comfortable with the contents of the Internet
>address you supplied. I realise we have placed the advertisement
>successfully for you in the past. Unfortunately this time they decided they
>did not want it printed.
>
>[snip]
>
>I'm really sorry for the inconvenience I know this will have caused you,
>but as you will understand Ariel have the last say in what is printed and
>what is not.
>
>Kind Regards
>
>Elaine Smith
>Classified Advertising Manager.
>
>In my reply to Elaine Smith, I said;
>
>I will speak to them directly, I believe their email address is
>Ariel@bbc.co.uk. As you say, if the advert went through the first time,
>then it should have gone through this time without problems. As I see it,
>either what is on the website is true (which is my belief) in which case
>they should allow it to be published, or else it is symptomatic of
>delusions in which case again any reasonable person would recognise it
>as such and its publication would not be suppressed. After all Britain
>is not supposed to have censorship - it isn't a Communist country.
>
>I also wrote to Mr Reynolds, Ariel's editor, asking him to reconsider his decision to censor my advert. He replied
>with the following letter;
>
>Since a magazine's editor has final say over what appears in the publication, there is nothing further that I can do
>to encourage Ariel to accept my advert. Mr Reynold's censorship of my legitimate complaint gives the game away a bit, though.
>The BBC wish people to think of them as truthful and impartial - yet when they are caught harassing one of their audience, they
>resort to the same censoring tactics characteristic of the regimes they hypocritically condemn.
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