Friday, January 09, 2004
The BBC has done a service to mid-morning TV watchers everywhere: The Kilroy programme will be taken off air immediately following comments made by Robert Kilroy-Silk in a newspaper article, the BBC has announced. While I think his comments deserve to be looked at by the BBC I'm not completely sure in my mind about whether any punishment they think of should necessarily go as far as sacking him. But then, on the other side of the argument (sorry, I'm feeling very liberal today) his show is supposed to be part of the news/current affairs axis, which makes the pretense of being fair and balanced, even when nothing of the sort. Perhaps the best thing would be for the BBC not to renew any contracts they have with Kilroy-Silk and let nature take it's course.
