Why is the BBC giving air time to a convicted paedophile so he can defend himself?

[beansprout]

The beeb has interviewed Gary Glitter - er, why?

[sassy]

Yes i saw this on 1 0clock news.

Neither important nor newsworthy IMO.

(And he was completely unconvincing in his self-defence too.)

[saltire]

Exactly. Why waste air time on him. As sassy said, it wasn't newsworthy.

[SecondhandRose]

Yes wasn't he pukingly awful and the interviewer obviously wasn't pleased to see him.

[Greensleeves]

Very distasteful.

[HunKeRMunKeR]

Just saw a bit of this - not nice

[BadHair]

Because he's launching a huge PR campaign. BBC obviously gone for the give him enough rope idea, where the public make our own minds up and judge him for ourselves. Which we obviously have. And found him just as guilty as the Thai court officials did.
End of any support for GG and end of PR campaign hopefully.

[WigWamBam]

Was going to say what BadHair said.

I didn't see the interview, but I can't see that he will have done himself any favours by doing it - all he is likely to do by attempting to defend himself is make himself look worse because paedophiles tend to try and justify their actions rather than regret them. Talking to the press and attempting to defend himself didn't do Johnathon King any good - it won't help Gary Glitter either.

[gigglinggoblin]

cant say i was convinced when he was asked if he had ever slept with an underage girl and he said 'err (pause) not to my knowledge'. dont think he has done himself any favours, would have been better keeping quiet and hoping people forget who he is