The B B C and the Reporting of Northern Ireland

The history extrepublicas public portant and public use of the b b c is quite consistent. The other flash point that has rumbled on through the late seventies and the eighties is the reporting of northern ireland. Een if you've got a political class who look at broadcasting and they genuinely believe that to allow paramilatries, or those linked with paramilatry, to speak on air is tantamount to agreeing to what they say on air. Then that's going to be a problem for a b b c That believes that in order to increase public understanding of a conflict, it has to reflect and report on the full range of opinion,. including those opinions