Television angles
Sir: Ludovic Kennedy writes (Letters, 13 October) with all the usual arrogance that one expects from those who have been '30 years in the business'. Unfortunately, they forget that we have been watching for 30 years and are not entirely stupid.
During my social and political rounds each year no end of people complain about television bias, bad language, violence etc. When one telephones a duty room to complain the reply is usually cursory. Suffering from true British apathy, people don't write to the station concerned as they believe it to be `a waste of time'.
Some have written, however, to their Members of Parliament, hoping that the broadcasters will heed complaints from that source. The rank and file at the Conservative conference clearly endorsed the members' activities in this respect.
The intellectual middle classes (the up- per classes rarely bother with the box) will not be influenced by the bias on television, as Mr Kennedy rightly states. However, the liberal and left-wing writers, producers and acting fraternity (and I challenge Ludovic Kennedy to say that the great majority of those people are not of that ilk) all know that the vast bulk of viewers do not fall into that category and often know no other angle to a story than that por- trayed on the television.
Here is where the real danger lies.
Gregory Lauder-Frost
Chairman, Foreign Affairs Committee, The Monday Club, 4 Orlando Road, London SW4
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