Re: MI5 Persecution: Gagged by BBC Ariels editor

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<MI5-Victim (AT) mi5 (DOT) gov.uk> wrote

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Gagged by BBC Ariel's editor

On 25 June 1997 I wrote to Landmark Publishing Services, who deal with
advertising for the BBC's in-house magazine Ariel.
I requested they run an advert "BBC Newsreaders Spying on my Home" in the
Personal column. They accepted my instructions
and payment, and the following advert did indeed run in Ariel's issue of 8
July 1997.

Following the successful placement of this small ad, I wrote again to
Landmark on 17 July 1997, requesting they run exactly
the same advert for 10 issues, enclosing payment. Unfortunately, the
advert did not appear in any further issues of Ariel,
because Ariel's editor Robin Reynolds nixed it. Here is an email from
Elaine Smith of Landmark dated 26 August 1997.

Date: Tue, 26 Aug 1997 09:34:25 +0100 (BST)
X-Sender: landmark (AT) 194 (DOT) 112.32.30
From: elaine (AT) lps (DOT) co.uk (Elaine Smith)
Subject: Re: advert - ariel

With regard to your E-mail of 22 August 1997 concerning your advertisement
in the Ariel magazine.

I was instructed by Ariel to remove your advertisement from the classified
pages as they were not comfortable with the contents of the Internet
address you supplied. I realise we have placed the advertisement
successfully for you in the past. Unfortunately this time they decided
they
did not want it printed.

[snip]

I'm really sorry for the inconvenience I know this will have caused you,
but as you will understand Ariel have the last say in what is printed and
what is not.

Kind Regards

Elaine Smith
Classified Advertising Manager.

In my reply to Elaine Smith, I said;

I will speak to them directly, I believe their email address is
Ariel (AT) bbc (DOT) co.uk. As you say, if the advert went through the first time,
then it should have gone through this time without problems. As I see it,
either what is on the website is true (which is my belief) in which case
they should allow it to be published, or else it is symptomatic of
delusions in which case again any reasonable person would recognise it
as such and its publication would not be suppressed. After all Britain
is not supposed to have censorship - it isn't a Communist country.

I also wrote to Mr Reynolds, Ariel's editor, asking him to reconsider his
decision to censor my advert. He replied
with the following letter;

Since a magazine's editor has final say over what appears in the
publication, there is nothing further that I can do
to encourage Ariel to accept my advert. Mr Reynold's censorship of my
legitimate complaint gives the game away a bit, though.
The BBC wish people to think of them as truthful and impartial - yet when
they are caught harassing one of their audience, they
resort to the same censoring tactics characteristic of the regimes they
hypocritically condemn.

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