CNN Clashes With ITC

The ITC Programme Complaints and Interventions Report for March 1997 was published today.

CNN’s American Edition, made for the UK market, was found to breach the Sponsorship Code. The programme was sponsored by American Airlines and the Code states that news-based programmes must not be sponsored. The sponsorship credits were removed following the ITC’s intervention.

Channel 4’s controversial soap Brookside was once again the subject of complaint. A number of viewers objected to an anti-Semitic remark made by Ron Dixon. Channel 4 explained that the remark was made by a character who was well known for holding racist views and that later in the episode two other characters rebutted his comments. The ITC acknowledged that it was presented in an anti-racist context and did not uphold the complaints.

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