Complaint
The programme included an interview with a speaker introduced as representing 鈥渢he free market think tank, the Institute of Economic Affairs鈥. A listener complained that the programme failed to make clear that the IEA does not disclose the sources of its funding. The ECU considered the complaint in the light of the 91福利社鈥檚 guidelines on impartiality, which say of such organisations as think tanks 鈥淎ppropriate information about their affiliations, funding and particular viewpoints should be made available to the audience, when relevant to the context鈥.
Outcome
The views expressed by the speaker were entirely consistent with what listeners would have been led to expect from the description 鈥渇ree market think tank鈥, and the ECU saw nothing in the context which would have made it relevant to mention that the IEA does not disclose the sources of its funding.
Not upheld