Dear Mr Barnard,
Freedom of Information request – RFI20140105
Thank you for your request to the BBC of 21st January 2014, seeking the following information
under the Freedom of Information Act 2000:
“Introduction:
As most intelligent people have realised Newswatch is an ineffectual, theatre for complaints where
license fee payers are patronised to death by 'senior BBC officials' but nothing ever changes. This
request is to uncover whether there is, in fact, any effect on the BBC from complaints made to this
piece of 'complaints theatre' or 'engagement' as it's cynically called nowadays.
Question:
How many complaints and observations to Newswatch have resulted in any substantive changes
within the BBC News organisation over the past five years?
I am not asking [at this point] for details, though, given the propensity of the BBC to spin, evade,
hide, cover-up etc. I may ask the trust to corroborate details. Since I'm not asking for details, I'll
complain to the information commissioner about the use of 'journalism, art and literature' to evade
this question as the BBC has apparently evaded tens of others”
The information you have requested is excluded from the Act because it is held for the purposes
of ‘journalism, art or literature.’ The BBC is therefore not obliged to provide this information to
you and will not be doing so on this occasion.
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