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11.10.09
First BBC Panorama Censors The Truth, Now It Tells LiesRyanair, Britain’s favourite airline today (11th Oct) accused BBC Panorama of telling blatant lies, in addition to blocking the truth in its ‘Hatchet Job’ programme on Ryanair scheduled for Monday evening, 12th October 2009. Ryanair has already published all of the correspondence with BBC Panorama on the home page of its website (www.ryanair.com) to expose the fact that Panorama’s claims are lies, and Panorama repeated refused Ryanair’s offer of either a ‘live’ or unedited pre-recorded interview with Ryanair’s Michael O’Leary.
In a statement to the London Times yesterday, a Spokesman for BBC Panorama falsely claimed that: “We wanted to interview Michael O’Leary but he wanted editorial control and that is something that no broadcaster would agree to”. As the correspondence with Panorama published on Ryanair’s website clearly proves, Ryanair sought no editorial control over this interview. All Ryanair asked for was that the interview, of whatever length (to be decided by the BBC) would not be edited, censored or cut by the Panorama editors. Ryanair offered to answer any questions, and believes that the reason that BBC Panorama turned down the interview was because Panorama wanted to cut or edit any Ryanair answers, which didn’t suit Panorama’s ‘Hatched Job’ agenda.
Speaking today Ryanair’s Michael O’Leary said:
“BBC Panorama know that they have no case in this ‘Hatchet Job’ programme. We have already rubbished their false claims about hidden charges and an agreement with Airbus. It is a pity that Panorama, with all their resources, investigative journalists and the power of the BBC, were not honest enough to agree to a ‘live’ or an unedited interview with Ryanair, which would have provided Panorama’s viewers with ‘balance and facts’, instead of Panorama’s ‘false claims and fiction’.
“Ryanair will be launching another widely popular Seat Sale on midnight Monday to expose Panorama’s false claims, censorship and now sadly lies. It is a shame that the BBC waste so much licence payers money on investigating why Ryanair is Britain’s favourite airline, when all they need do is take a couple of low fare on time flights like 66 million other consumers will do this year. These clowns even wasted licence payers money flying to Dublin on high fare, frequently delayed, BMI, instead of flying with Britain’s favourite airline Ryanair”.
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