{"id":808,"date":"2010-05-11T22:27:28","date_gmt":"2010-05-11T21:27:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.weirdbutinagoodway.co.uk\/blog\/?p=808"},"modified":"2010-05-11T22:30:42","modified_gmt":"2010-05-11T21:30:42","slug":"my-email-to-the-bbc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.weirdbutinagoodway.co.uk\/blog\/2010\/05\/11\/my-email-to-the-bbc\/","title":{"rendered":"My email to the BBC"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dear BBC<\/p>\n

Can you please remind your presenters and guests on all of your programmes, but specifically the breakfast and news presenters, that we don’t elect a Prime Minister, we elect the party,and they appoint a leader, who if is still the leader at the time of the election, becomes our PM.<\/p>\n

It’s so annoying to hear repeated claims that we (the electorate) have elected a PM!!!<\/p>\n

There is enough confusion and apathy without the BBC making it worse by misrepresenting our electoral system.<\/p>\n

Of all the news outlets the BBC should be the one leading the way to encourage people to look at and vote for policies, not personalities!<\/p>\n

Thank you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dear BBC Can you please remind your presenters and guests on all of your programmes, but specifically the breakfast and news presenters, that we don’t elect a Prime Minister, we elect the party,and they appoint a leader, who if is still the leader at the time of the election, becomes our PM. It’s so annoying … Continue reading My email to the BBC<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[140,1],"tags":[267,268,141],"class_list":["post-808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion","category-wbiagw","tag-bbc","tag-open-letter","tag-politics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6WGy-d2","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":74,"url":"https:\/\/www.weirdbutinagoodway.co.uk\/blog\/2005\/11\/24\/lets-all-jump-on-the-media-bandwagon\/","url_meta":{"origin":808,"position":0},"title":"Lets all jump on the media bandwagon…","date":"November 24, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"...I have a lot to say for myself today BUT I was just watching the news and I'm sick and tired of the hype the media put around certain subjects...emphasising problems and creating a panic culture around them by making them seem immenent threats or telling us about issues that\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "WBIAGW"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":208,"url":"https:\/\/www.weirdbutinagoodway.co.uk\/blog\/2008\/04\/19\/for-one-week-only\/","url_meta":{"origin":808,"position":1},"title":"For one week only…","date":"April 19, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"I have come to the realisiation that in our house we rely way too much on technology to keep us occupied. 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