Write to the BBC and thank them for the bravery of their journalists

A subscriber takes us through the super-simple process

A few weeks ago I was thinking of joining the campaign to scrap the BBC licence fee and now I’m asking you to write to them and support them. This is to counter a mass trans activist complaints campaign, with around 500 complaints sent to them yesterday alone, for Caroline Lowbridge’s piece exposing the scandal of The Cotton Ceiling.

Your comments will help the BBC seniors who signed off on it to have quantitative and qualitative evidence to hand for their conversations with OfCom and MPs. (Although I imagine Ofcom are keeping their heads down after the Nolan podcasts).

A subsciber also suggested using the same process to congratulate the BBC on their Stephen Nolan podcasts: “This will probably not drown out the open letters and cut and pasted form letter complaints from the other side of the argument, but it may help a bit. 

Step 1: 

Go to this address:

Select 'BBC website or apps'

Select BBC News Website

Enter the URL of the specific article, either this one or this one

Are you contacting us about a previous complaint? No (unless you actually are)

On the next screen, select 'Not Enough Coverage' as your complaint category.

If you want, select Yes to wanting to receive a response:

In terms of what to write? That’s up to you. I questioned why the BBC waited so long to enter this debate. I asked whether the BBC's status as a diversity champion changed what they would cover, or how they would cover it. I raised these complaints by Stephen Nolan that he was informally 'warned off' reporting on Stonewall, and asked if these reports were accurate.

Or if you’re feeling sunnier about it, as I am, you could just say thanks. I’m grateful to them for finally putting some real journalists on this beat and I’ll be telling them so.