Many thanks to the BBC for taking the time to consider our concerns and respond. It's much appreciated by the families.
"Editorial Complaint – BBC Northern Ireland
I’m replying to your follow-up enquiry about contacts with the Belfast newsroom.
The email address for press releases is bbcnewsni@bbc.co.uk. However, because around 30% of our staff are working from home as a result of the Covid pandemic, some of our normal processes for handling releases, and determining how to respond to them, have been disrupted.
In the case of the anniversary of the McGurk’s Bar bombing, my understanding is we received one release about the protest at the Policing Board which included the information that it was the fiftieth anniversary. We did not receive any release about the commemoration.
There is no doubt that the McGurk’s bombing anniversary was an event of significance and one which, in normal circumstances, we would have been intent on highlighting - hence our subsequent decision to commission an online piece about it [link].
We think [it] would have been better if we had deployed staff to cover the anniversary in the run up to the date itself and if we had been able to publish the online story to coincide with the commemorative event.
We regret this did not happen, but can assure you that we remain conscious of the significance of the bombing and will want to keep BBC audiences updated on any substantive developments relating to it.
I hope this is useful...
Yours sincerely
BBC Complaints (Northern Ireland"
Related Information
BBC Blackout on the 50th Anniversary of McGurk's Bar?
Update
Historically, of course, the BBC's coverage of the conflict was one-sided - it is the British state's British Broadcasting Corporation, of course. It failed our families too in the weeks after the Massacre.
In its flagship current affairs programme, Panorama, the BBC parroted the disinformation about our loved ones and blamed them for the attack. This is despite BBC interviewing two eyewitnesses to the Loyalist bomb attack. These included young Joseph McClory and Henry Davey.
Joseph was an 8-year-old newspaper boy who walked past the killers in the car, looked back, and watched one of them plant the bomb in the entranceway. He witnessed the bomb being lit, the bomber run to the car, and the car escape.
Henry Davey happened to be about to turn the corner and go into McGurk's Bar when Joseph warned him of the bomb, saving his life.
The British state then set about ignoring and undermining these witnesses.
We now know too that Britain's covert and perfidious Information Research Department was feeding disinformation to the head of BBC and this disinformation was then broadcast. We discovered the receipts.
You can get the links to the interviews with Joseph and Henry which were taken within days of the atrocity via our investigation into the grim links between the British Broadcasting Corporation and the Information Research Department: Spooks - the Battle for Belfast and the BBC
To see how far the corporation has stooped, one can just see its output during the Genocide in Gaza, operating as little more than the mouthpiece of zionist génocidaires. It remains crucial that viewers and readers approach these news sites with great caution, as they all have their own agendas. Those agendas often align with warmongering states and billionaires with little heed to balance or truth. What remains despicable is that people in Britain and the north of Ireland are legally bound to contribute to this British propaganda being pumped into their living rooms.
