Extracts from Ofcom Complaint, by Category: Misrepresentation of Peoples Views

1. Extracts From Complete Transcript and Rebuttal

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Furthermore, in his statement below, the narrator appears to the viewer to agree with what Nigel Calder has just said: which means that it is not just one interviewee making a clearly inaccurate statement, but much more seriously, an apparent attempt by the film maker to misrepresent the history of the IPCC to the audience, in clear breach of the Ofcom Code relating to impartiality on matters of current policy and in clear breach of the Communications Acts remit for Channel 4 programmes to be educational.]

(In breach of the 2003 Communications Act Section 265, Ofcom 5.4, 5.5, 5.7, 5.11, 5.12)

[Narrator]

But the new emphasis on man-made carbon dioxide as a possible environmental problem didnt just appeal to Mrs. Thatcher.

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