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Originally Posted by Graham
Today's Portsmouth News had the headline "STITCH UP" in very large letters.
A lot of people from Lee on the Solent were *VERY* annoyed with Dispatches, saying that they gave much too much coverage to a few people with racist/ bigotted viewpoints and left most of the more moderate comments on the cutting room floor.
Unfortunately (having had the opportunity to take them to task on C4's Right to Reply programme a few years back) Dispatches seems to be aimed at producing "sensationalist" programmes, rather than actually a balanced viewpoint of the issues  |
Good point. Programs like that do tend to give a platform to the loudest voices - not necessarily the most common view.