Action by everyone!! Contact Mark Thompson

[Justin]

Read the following letter by Mark Thompson, the Director-General of the BBC, to all BBC employees very carefully. Everyone who calls himself or herself a 9/11 Truth Activist must contact him in the next 24 hours to make him aware of our disgust at the way the Conspiracy Files programme on 9/11 aired earlier this year in February was deliberately written and presented to dishonestly mislead the general public.

Challenge him politely but firmly to look here http://www.infowars.com/articles/sept11/bbc_hit_piece_tissue_of_lies.h tm and at David and Adrian's excellent and detailed rebuttal of the programme and to ask him to show this documentary (http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1882365905982811133) on mainstream BBC television in order to balance this dreadful piece of biased and dishonest journalism.

I believe his email address is: mark.thompson@bbc.co.uk and the BBC's tel. no. at Television Centre is 0208 743 8000.

Please act in the next 24 hours to make sure he acts to put right the damage done by this dishonest piece of garbage journalism - Tim Sparke of Mercury Media has already written to him but we need many more of us to write and ring in to make our voice heard.

Action this day!

Thanks

Justin

[karlos]

Hello Justin,

As you know most emails get bounced as spam.
It would be better to actually write to OFCOM and complain to them in writing by post.
That way they have to act and they have to take action. You cannot expect or hope for the BBc to police itself. OFCOM will do it and if they get over a thousand letters of complaint abou the same thing then guaranteed heads at the BBC will roll.

OFCOM says:

[flamesong]

Did you copy and paste that e-mail directly, Justin?

Because it appears to suffer from the same questionable editing that it purports to address.

Anyway, I fired off an e-mail with correctly edited quoted text - just in case.

[Justin]

I cocked up the pasting - here it is as sent to me:

[andyb]

OFCOM do not handle complaints about the BBC, all complaints are dealt with directly with the BBC. OFCOM is funded by the commercial tv stations and these are who it regulates.

[Mark Gobell]

This from Tim Sparke at Mercury Media.

I urge you to consider responding to this request to contact the BBC. Thank you...

Attached is a letter written to Mark Thompson, Director General of The BBC in response to his request to 'root out serious incidents of deception of the BBC audience'. You may be aware that the BBC attempted to deceive the public about HM Queen Elizabeth last week by suggesting she stormed out of a photo-shoot, which she did not -- and he has been asked to investigate if there have been any other incidents which he should know about.

I believe the broadcast of the BBC Conspiracy Files film was a deliberate deception of the audience and I have sent him the BBC5 film produced recently for him to watch as a rebuttal against the original film.

Please encourage your readers and supporters to write to him requesting an investigation into the BBC 911 Conspiracy Film:
Mark Thompson
Director General, BBC
201 Wood Lane
London W12 7TQ

Or, email him on mark.thompson@bbc.co.uk

I spoke to his office today and was promised that they will investigate the claims we make against the film. My aim is to get the rebuttal film broadcast...which would crack open the whole 9/11 story to a world-wide audience.

You can email people with my letter if you wish.

With kind regards


Tim Sparke
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Tim Sparke
Managing Director
MercuryMedia International Ltd
6 Baseline Studios
Whitchurch Road
London W11 4AT

T: 44 20 7221 7221
F: 44 20 7221 7228
M: 44 7801 520991
W: www.mercurymedia.org
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E: tsparke@mercurymedia.org



July 16, 2007

Mark Thompson
British Broadcasting Corporation
White City Media Centre
211 Wood Lane
London W12 7TQ

Dear Mark

RE: Serious Intentional Deception Of The Audience

You may remember me, from your days at Channel 4, where I distributed the Sorious Samura series of films that you commissioned.

The reason I am writing to you today is in response to your recent published request to ‘root out incidents of serious intentional deception of the audience’.

The film ‘The Conspiracy Files’ broadcast in February this year on BBC2 and then later on BBC4 and BBC World, concerning the 9/11 ‘Conspiracy’ was in my opinion, and many others, an unambiguous attempt, by producer Guy Smith, to deliberately deceive viewers regarding the veracity of the claims of the 9/11 truth movement. It was also an attempt to paint its members as assorted ‘goof-balls’, ‘evangelists’ ‘drop-outs’ and ‘anti-semites’ when in actual fact our supporters include 500 family members and survivors, academics, physicists, architects, engineers, law enforcement officials, military officers, pilots and other professionals eminently qualified to question the official story of 9/11 – www.patriotsquestion911.com <http://www.patriotsquestion911.com/> . Check out who we are by going to the site and reading the testimony of some of these people.

Rather than set out the dozens of incidents of deception in the programme that we have found, we have produced a rebuttal DVD, which sets out the incidents of deception in a coherent fashion, juxtaposing the film’s shortcomings against verifiable and publicly available evidence.

However the basic charge against the film-makers and the BBC as broadcaster is as follows:

The Conspiracy Files film sets a very dangerous precedent: that it is somehow acceptable for the BBC to whip up hatred against minority activist groups; that it is acceptable for the BBC to undermine historical truth and that is acceptable for the BBC to undermine faith in the public record. By presenting a selective and distorted view of the 9/11 evidence the BBC took a particular view on a highly controversial matter of enormous public interest and importance. This is in clear contravention of its guidelines, and an utterly immoral deception of the public.

We are seeking suitable redress for the serious intentional deception that happened as a result of the broadcast of the BBC Conspiracy films programme. We would request that if an independent body finds that there is provable incidence of serious deception, you do the honourable thing and allow us the opportunity to rebut the original film by acquiring our film and broadcasting it on BBC2 in a similar slot. We would also request that we be given the same promotional campaign as given to your original film with trailers on both radio, TV and online, a press campaign and follow up phone in programmes. (Our film is available to watch on google video and so far half a million people have viewed it).

We want to trust the BBC again – as for the most part it is a trustworthy organization dedicated to serving the needs of its licence fee payers. However on this occasion, the BBC fell short of its charter and Guy Smith is guilty of the most outrageous deception. My sense is that once you, your colleagues and the BBC Trust see our film you will agree, and you will take appropriate action.

I look forward to hearing from you.

Yours sincerely


Tim Sparke
Managing Director
Enc. BBC DVD
CC: Jana Bennett; Roly Keating.

[Pikey]

Great letter by Tim hope that he keeps us informed.

I contacted the Mark Thompson number but got provided wth another BBC number to contact.

Only effective action imho is to organise a spontaneous refund request of BBC customers licence fees once the 911 truth movement has attained critical mass.

[Mick Meaney]

The BBC state that this issue is going to be addressed at ESC's September meeting, but they also say a large number of complaints are scheduled for that meeting and there is a possibility that it may fall to the 2nd October meeting instead.

[TonyGosling]

[ian neal]

Any one got the time to make a freedom of information request to get the minutes from the editorial meetings for this programme and the subsequent correspondence campaigners have had with the beeb?

[flamesong]

I just received a response from Richard Carey at the BBC. For completion have included my initial e-mail and my subsequent reply.

[Mick Meaney]

[Mick Meaney]

Here's what they say, but I never mentioned WTC 7 and will of course make an appeal.

[Thermate911]

Yeah I got the same Beeb response to my letter (pasted somewhere else on this board) - the hypocrisy of it - dragging up the Victims again, whilst totally ignoring the fact that a majority of the survivors are clamoring for an Impartial 9/11 Inquiry!

I was invited to air my concerns on that ridiculously censored thread at the Beeb - needless to say, they didn't post my response...