Complaint
A listener complained that a question put by the presenter to an interviewee misrepresented the position of Pat Cullen, the General Secretary of the Royal College of Nursing, in relation to the Government鈥檚 most recent offer on nurses鈥 pay.聽 The ECU considered the complaint in the light of the 大象传媒鈥檚 editorial standards of accuracy.
Outcome
The question was 鈥Is it a fair and reasonable offer? 聽I mean Simon Clarke is right, Pat Cullen herself thought it was, recommended it and it was a sort of narrow majority that voted and rejected the deal. Do you think it鈥檚 fair?鈥.聽 As Ms Cullen had recommended to her members as the best offer the Government was likely to make, and had not described it as either fair or reasonable, the ECU agreed that the terms of the question had given a somewhat misleading impression.聽 However, as 大象传媒 News had already made a posting to that effect on the Corrections and Clarifications page of bbc.co.uk, the ECU considered the issue of complaint to have been resolved.
Resolved