{"id":10018,"date":"2011-05-13T15:38:09","date_gmt":"2011-05-13T14:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=10018"},"modified":"2011-05-13T15:38:16","modified_gmt":"2011-05-13T14:38:16","slug":"an-update-on-the-manx-radio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2011\/05\/13\/an-update-on-the-manx-radio\/","title":{"rendered":"An update on Manx Radio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I blogged my concerns about comments <a href=\"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2011\/05\/12\/manx-radio-broadcasting-a-wish-that\/\" target=\"_blank\">made on Manx Radio yesterday<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I'd like to thank all those who offered support and who agreed that the suggestion made by an Isle of Man\u00a0government\u00a0employee that I be 'taken out' by an assassination\u00a0squad was unacceptable.<\/p>\n<p>I note that many commenting in the Isle of Man seem to think this a flippant issue.<\/p>\n<p>So too did Stuart Peters, the person who made the comment. Following my complaint to\u00a0Manx Radio he\u00a0broadcast\u00a0an apology at 13.20 today for his 'flippant comment' and made clear it did not represent the view of Manx Radio or the Isle of Man\u00a0government.<\/p>\n<p>The difficulty is, it was not a flippant comment. It was an argument he very deliberately constructed, on air, during a debate on the importance of\u00a0investigative\u00a0journalism and why the lack of it was leading to a lack of effective\u00a0political\u00a0opposition in the\u00a0Isle of Man.<\/p>\n<p>For that reason I have, after taking advice, reported the matter to the police in the Isle of Man. I will now leave\u00a0them\u00a0to investigate it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I blogged my concerns about comments made on Manx Radio yesterday. I&#8217;d like to thank all those who offered support and who agreed that the<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2011\/05\/13\/an-update-on-the-manx-radio\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-isle-of-man"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10018\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}