BBC journalists try to ban presenters from working with charities

Banning BBC journalists and presenters from taking part in charities is a  new whimsical idea dreamed up  by top BBC journalists to prevent 'impartiality', thereby reducing complaints.

Yet, every Christmas, the BBC has a 'Children in Need Day', if they ban presenters from being involved in charities, what about that one, or are BBC presenters only supposed to support charities favoured by the 'BBC dictatorship'?

Is Children in Need a 'safe' charity they can get involved in? And what will happen to Blue Peter? Just what is considered a 'safe' charity? Indeed, it is a guessing game. Anything Fairtrade is clearly not then. Perhaps it is 'too political?'.

How will they police this? Will the BBC send out 'Starbucks snitchers' to  look out for presenters buying a Fairtrade latte in their free time?

As many presenters get involved in charity work, perhaps cycling for charities, it will be hard to encourage people to do BBC presenting jobs unless they give up their valued charity work. 

Charity work should be encouraged. It can help make journalists more knowledgeable about the world and shape them in a positive way. 

Even Gordon Brown. the British Prime Minister, is a supporter of community work. In fact he is planning a 'community working holiday'. He has already pledged to ensure that every young person has done 50 hours of community work by the time they are 19. His wife, Sarah,is a keen charity worker.

This is an excerpt from The Times today:-

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"Senior journalists at the BBC fear that it will ban presenters of its news and current affairs programmes from working with charitable organisations.

News presenters told The Times that there is concern that managers plan to force them to abandon charity appointments after George Alagiah, the presenter of the Six o’Clock News, was ordered to step down as patron of the Fairtrade Foundation.

The BBC said yesterday that it told Alagiah to resign from the charity, which campaigns for a fair deal for farmers in the developing world, because it had a “duty to protect its reputation for impartiality”.

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The BBC, who appears to be out of touch, better standback for even more BBC complaints on https://www.bbc.co.uk/complaints/forms/