The audience producer for the BBC news debate show Question Time has been “reminded” by the BBC of the corporation’s guidelines regarding social media use, after she shared Facebook posts by the far-right group Britain First.
Alison Fuller-Pedley, who works as an audience producer for the popular news panel program, which sees guests debate the issues of the day with audience participation, shared five of the far-right group’s Facebook posts exhorting support for the British armed forces and the wearing of the commemorative poppy. She also ‘liked’ a page called “British Patriotic Front”. Both Facebook pages carry extreme racist and ultra-British nationalist content.
Fuller-Pedley’s job gives her responsibility over organising the participating audience for the programme.
Speaking to CommonSpace, a BBC spokesperson said: “The Question Time audience is always chosen by a team to ensure broad political balance and each application goes through the same rigorous background checks. Any suggestion to the contrary is misleading.
“The BBC has clear impartiality guidelines covering the use of personal social media - this freelance producer and the rest of the programme team have been reminded of their responsibilities.”
Fuller-Pedley works for Mentorn Media, which is commissioned by the BBC to create the Question Time programme.
www.commonspace.scot/articles/10001/bbc-reprimands-question-time-producer-over-far-right-social-media-posts
Aparently she has done this job for twenty years and is a former member of UKIP, which possibly explains why Nigel Farage was invited on to QT 29 times in the years leading up to the 2016 referendum, and no other MEP was ever invited, except for the ultra-right wing Conservative brexiter MEP Daniel Hannan who was invited once.
No MEP from any other party ever got the opportunity to appear on QT for all these years.
Although this woman was not directly employed by the BBC, the importance of QT as a BBC "flagship" programme has led, naturally to it being known as the Brexit Broadcasting Corporation.
