Strikes me that Ryanair are throwing the toys out of the pram. I notice that they letters they've published they have left individuals personal contact details in tact and not blanked out, hardly proper of them.
:-(
A former member
why could'nt there just give them the live interview?
why could'nt there just give them the live interview?
Second letter from Tonight posted:
...our programme does not conduct live studio debates at the end of programmes. We are a programme that pre-records interviews with all our interviewees, be they heads of state, government ministers, company chief executives or ordinary people.
So in short they were given opportunity to respond and have an interviewed, however Ryanair would only do one if it was live. As far as I can see they contacted the press office for an interview as early as Wednesday 18th October.
To try and steer this somewhat towards TV presentation - why does the letter from Granada have, rather than the current logo, both the early 2000s GR/N/DA logo at the top, and wierder still, the 1990s "Granada Media" logo at the bottom!
I can see this from both sides really. Tonight is not and never has been a live programme. It has always been recorded. On the other hand i can understand that Ryanair do not want ITV to edit the interview in a way that they cannot control. I doubt this is the last we have heard of this one! At the end of the day though the info is all there on the Ryanair website. It's just like all of us i doubt any of the customers read the terms and conditions in full. But then most company's T&C's are endless and exhaustive.
To try and steer this somewhat towards TV presentation - why does the letter from Granada have, rather than the current logo, both the early 2000s GR/N/DA logo at the top, and wierder still, the 1990s "Granada Media" logo at the bottom!
Is it not defamatory to accuse a TV company of producing an 'inaccurate and unbalanced' programme? If Ryanair were to take legal action I'd suggest they've left themselves the opportunity for action to be taken against them.
The other mistake, of course, is by doing this they've got us all talking about the programme. A major PR mistake.