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Tibet complaint against Radio 4's Today upheld by BBC Trust PDF Print E-mail
Written by Sonam Wangdue   
Saturday, 30 May 2009 08:04

Tibet complaint against Radio 4's Today upheld by BBC Trust

 

BBC Radio 4's Today should have explained that interviewee on Tibet spoke from pro-Chinese government position, trust rules

Caitlin Fitzsimmons

The BBC should have informed listeners that an academic interviewed about Tibet on Radio 4's Today programme was speaking from a pro-Chinese government viewpoint, the BBC Trust has ruled.

In its latest roundup of rulings, the BBC Trust's editorial standards committee partly upheld a complaint about a Today Show item on demonstrations in Tibet aired in March 2008.

The complainant said Professor Barry Sautman of Hong Kong University of Science and Technology was allowed to express his views in support of the Chinese government's policy on Tibet "virtually unchallenged".

Meanwhile, the complainant argued that Sonam Dagpo, head of international relations for the Tibetan government-in-exile, was given no right of reply and was instead "continually badgered" and "harangued" about whether the demonstrators should be encouraged to show restraint. 

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