Don think it will work but still signed it
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This is the reply I got
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Thank you for your recent email regarding the Radio Five Live Review of the Year which is due to be broadcast on Christmas Day.
We raised your concerns with Bob Shennan, the Controller of Five Live, who has responded as follows to your concerns:
"We're sorry to hear of your objection to Kelvin MacKenzie's role as a presenter for this programme. While we fully recognise the strength of feeling that some people have against Kelvin, he has a great deal of experience in broadcasting and a keen eye for stories, which makes him well qualified to give his views on the news stories of the year.
Kelvin MacKenzie will always arouse strong feelings from our audience - that's in his nature as a broadcaster and as a person - and clearly not everyone wants to hear what he has to say, but equally there are many others who appreciate hearing his opinions even when they don't agree with them.
Many people have highlighted to us Kelvin's recent statement in which he said he wasn't sorry about the Sun newspaper's handling of the tragedy at Hillsborough, but such private comments are entirely his own and they are in no way endorsed by the BBC. We believe he is an appropriate choice as presenter for this particular programme' but your comments have been registered and will be taken into consideration."
Bob Shennan
Controller of Five Live
Thank you, once more, for taking the time to contact the BBC.
Regards
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SignedApril 15th 1989 is a day that all football fans should never forget. It was a day when 96 Liverpool fans lost their lives at a football match at Hillsborough.
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Very
answer from BBC.
So a radio presenter is ok as long as he hasn't done anything wrong working for them.
Maybe they could hire Saddam doing a show for them. He hasn't been on air for them so he hasn't done anything wrong so far according to the logic that the BBC use.Just believe and you never know what will happen.
According to Benitez it's important not simply to go out to win but to go out prepared to win, which means players have to put in the same level of work on a daily basis. Anything else is unacceptable.
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I have signed the petition, then sent an e-mail to the bbc complaints dept. (see below with the lame arse response that I received).
Obviously i can't renew my license anyway because I live in Australia, but if I still lived there (in Blighty) I would go to court over it as a matter of principle.
P.S Only stumbled on this site yesterday after reading what Mr Oldham has been up to! Can't believe all the former Koptalkers are here!
"I can't begin to express my outrage that the BBC are going to pay (out
of license payers money) the complete low life Kelvin McKenzie. Not only
did he deeply hurt many thousands of grieving people in the aftermath of
the Hillsborough tragedy, but he is at it again. Only a week or so ago
he was peddling his poison for a few quid at an after dinner function.
The BBC surely have some accountability to the license payers (who pay
your wages)!
I don't want to hear a response of "you can't please everyone", this
goes much further than this.
I feel so strongly about this that if this dispicable creature goes to
air on the BBC I will not be renewing my license and I am quite prepared
to go to court over it".
Thank you for your recent email regarding the Radio Five Live Review of the Year which is due to be broadcast on Christmas Day.
We raised your concerns with Bob Shennan, the Controller of Five Live, who has responded as follows to your concerns:
"We're sorry to hear of your objection to Kelvin MacKenzie's role as a presenter for this programme. While we fully recognise the strength of feeling that some people have against Kelvin, he has a great deal of experience in broadcasting and a keen eye for stories, which makes him well qualified to give his views on the news stories of the year.
Kelvin MacKenzie will always arouse strong feelings from our audience - that's in his nature as a broadcaster and as a person - and clearly not everyone wants to hear what he has to say, but equally there are many others who appreciate hearing his opinions even when they don't agree with them.
Many people have highlighted to us Kelvin's recent statement in which he said he wasn't sorry about the Sun newspaper's handling of the tragedy at Hillsborough, but such private comments are entirely his own and they are in no way endorsed by the BBC. We believe he is an appropriate choice as presenter for this particular programme' but your comments have been registered and will be taken into consideration."
Bob Shennan
Controller of Five Live
Thank you, once more, for taking the time to contact the BBC.
Regards
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signedi own everton fans on the internet....that's what i doComment
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Done, the odoius cnutJustice for the 96Comment
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Signed."Let me say for the record, I am not a gangster and never have been. Im not the thief who grabs your purse. Im not the guy who jacks your car. Im not down with the people who steal and hurt others. Im just a brother who fight back."
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It's a two hour show - the LFC related actions starts after one hourIt's my job to handle life and death situations on a daily basis. It's what I do, and I'm very good at it.Comment
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Signed.April 15th 1989 is a day that all football fans should never forget. It was a day when 96 Liverpool fans lost their lives at a football match at Hillsborough.
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Done."Even men with steel hearts love to see a dog on the pitch". It generates a warmth around the ground that augurs well for mankind and that's what life's about. Trouble is these days you never see a dog on the pitch".
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About as succesful as we could have hoped for.
BBC moves MacKenzie Christmas reviewDec 22 2006
By Sam Lister, Liverpool Daily Post Staff
FORMER Sun editor Kelvin MacKenzie's Christmas Day broadcast has been dropped after pressure from fans.
More than 11,000 people signed a petition calling for the BBC to reconsider its Radio Five Live schedules and a two-hour sports review will now be broadcast in its place.
Liverpool FC supporters started the campaign after the Daily Post revealed that the columnist had told a crowd of businessmen: "I was not sorry then and I'm not sorry now" for the paper's infamous coverage of the Hillsborough disaster.
They believe he should never have been offered a show on a station funded by licence payers.
But his news review of the year will be broadcast on December 24 instead.
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Nick Harman, a marketing officer who started the on-line petition, said: "It is a small victory.
"The strength of feeling has made bosses at the BBC think.
"All along they have said it was a one-off and I hope it is but they have already been tarred with that brush now.
"We will hound MacKenzie until he comes to meet us and apologies for what he has said."
The petition was organised by the Redandwhitekop.com website, an independent LFC supporters forum with 20,000 members.
A protest is now planned for the Liverpool match against Arsenal on January 6, which is being televised by the BBC.
Posters and many hundreds of banners are being prepared for the peaceful demonstration.
Liverpool FC were playing Nottingham Forest in the FA Cup semi-final at the South Yorkshire stadium in 1989. Lord Justice Taylor's official inquiry found the cause of the disaster was overcrowding and failures by the police.
The Sun apologised in July 2004 saying it was "truly sorry" and that its false allegations were "the most terrible mistake in its history".
But Mackenzie told more than 100 guests at the annual lunch of Newcastle law firm Mincoffs LLP he had only apologised to the people of Liverpool during a television appearance at the time of the tragedy because the newspaper's owner, Rupert Murdoch, had ordered him to.
He still stands by the story, insisting the newspaper had been reporting "the truth" when it accused Liverpool fans caught in the terrace crush of urinating on the dead and stealing from bodies.
Last night, a spokeswoman for the BBC said: "It was an administrative decision to move the programme.
"It was felt to be a better fit on Christmas Eve.
"We do understand the strength of feeling there is about Kelvin MacKenzie and we have been responding to the people who have been in touch.
"But this was a scheduling decision."
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Typical BBC no balls as usual and pander to the minority.Pity we could not get a BBC employee such as Hansen or Lawrensen to highlight our case!!Comment
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