Dear Sir/Madam,
As mentioned in my previous complaint, the very fact that you see fit to use Kelvin McKenzie - an embodiment of all that is wrong with so called journalism - on your radio station has caused me to cease listening. However, word of mouth can spread quickly and lo and behold I find I am still finding myself hearing about this vile creature on the airwaves. According to friends of mine who amazingly chose to listen to this nonsense, McKenzie interviewed the man responsible for the Wayne Rooney Aigburth Road CCTV footage. Perhaps you would like to explain to me the evidence on which this gentleman was able to state as fact that Steven Gerrard only stayed at Liverpool as a result of threats on his family by scouse mafia exiles? I mean sure it makes a great story, sensationalised, exciting, flashy. It's false, but why would that matter? After all, the BBC is dumbing down, wasting money (my money, my license fee) on tabloid nonsense. Not only is it doing that, it is using that money to employ Kelvin McKenzie - who has proceeded to use radio 5 as a vehicle for yet MORE anti Liverpool propoganda - as if accusing Liverpool fans of robbing from dead bodies and urinating on dead bodies all those years ago wasn't enough. If you check through the Radio 4 archives, you will hear Kelvin McKenzie admit on the Today Programme that what he printed in the Sun all those years ago were 'all lies, but we are in the entertainment business.' If the BBC's factual programming can include programmes by this man, how can you justify all our license fees?
On a side note I also work for the NHS. I do not feel I deserve to lose my job. I have no inclination to go off to pick strawberries for a living. I, like many others, help to care for people when they are sick, providing support for those who need it, as well as skilled treatment for patients with cancer. Perhaps he would like to work on the radiotherapy machines I work on while I go on Newsnight and tell him he's useless at his job? Because it's not hard to see that I'm far more justified to criticise him than he is to criticise others.
It's not reasonable, right or fair to reply to me and justify this man's employment by the BBC - at my expense. What would be reasonable would be to pull this walking joke off the airways. His views may not reflect those of the BBC, but they reflect very, very poorly on what used to be a fine institution.
Yours with disbelief,
Mark Ballard