letter to beeb:
Paul McMullen has been interviewed on far too many BBC programmes this week with reference to phone hacking. It seems that every time I turn on the News or a news programme, Paul McMullen is there running the same arguments and antagonising other interviewees. He has not been employed by the News of the World for several years and has extremely limited knowledge of the current state of affairs.
He seems to be being wheeled out to provide a tabloid journalism perspective to every argument, but is objectionable, hateful and lacks coherence.
I think the BBC is guilty of bias, by employing him so regularly this week (no less than 10 appearances so far); poor standards of interviewing and presenting, as too often his abhorrent views go unchallenged; Too Much Coverage - for someone who is so far removed from the current activities it seems disproportionate and unecessary to have his view on the situation repeated over and over again.
I would be grateful if you would stop featuring this man in your programming.