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I'm well aware that it won't be to everyone's taste, but it only takes 2 minutes of your time:
http://www.petitiononline.com/rawk1/petition.html
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Thousands demand BBC knock MacKenzie off air
Dec 12 2006
By Sam Lister Liverpool Daily Post Staff
LIVERPOOL FC supporters have launched a petition calling for the BBC to drop former Sun editor Kelvin MacKenzie from its Christmas Day schedules.
More than 4,000 people have already signed the online form, including fans from Australia and Switzerland as well as rival clubs.
It follows revelations by the Daily Post earlier this month that the columnist had told a crowd of businessmen: "I was not sorry then and I'm not sorry now" for the paper's infamous coverage of the Hillsborough disaster.
The BBC has given him a two-hour teatime slot on Radio Five Live where he will present a News Review of the Year.
But outraged fans believe he should never have been offered a show on a station funded by licence payers.
Nick Harman, a marketing officer, started the online petition. He told the Daily Post: "We have already had 4,000 signatures in a matter of days.
"We have had emails from as far as Australia and Switzerland, that's how strong the feeling is.
"We don't believe Kelvin MacKenzie should be given a show on Christmas Day paid for with our licence fees.
"I was at Hillsborough that day and saw the tragedy happen. I wasn't injured and neither was anyone in my family but it has deeply affected me and hearing his comments has really angered me.
"I cannot imagine the families who did lose someone must feel when this man pipes up again with his lies.
"That's why we started this petition."
The petition has been organised by the Redandwhitekop.com website, an independent LFC supporters forum with 20,000 members.
It states: "We want the BBC to remove Kelvin MacKenzie as one of the hosts to their Christmas Day broadcast of the News Review of the Year on Radio Five Live at 5pm.
"Kelvin MacKenzie is, in the views of the undersigned, a man of great dishonesty with his actions after the Hillsborough football disaster and his refusal to back down on the lies he allowed to be printed."
Liverpool FC were playing Nottingham Forest in the FA Cup semi-final at the south Yorkshire stadium in 1989. Lord Justice Taylor's official inquiry found the cause of the disaster was overcrowding and failures by the police.
The Sun apologised in July 2004 saying it was "truly sorry" and that its false allegations were "the most terrible mistake in its history."
But Mr MacKenzie told more than 100 guests at the annual lunch of Newcastle law firm Mincoffs LLP he had only apologised to the people of Liverpool during a television appearance at the time of the tragedy because the newspaper's owner Rupert Murdoch had ordered him to.
He still stands by the story insisting the newspaper had been reporting 'the truth' when it accused Liverpool fans caught in the terrace crush of urinating on the dead and stealing from bodies.
Last night a spokeswoman for the BBC said: "As a former tabloid newspaper editor, Kelvin MacKenzie has a great deal of experience in this area and is well-qualified to give his take on the news stories of the year.
"Kelvin's private comments were entirely his own and in no way endorsed by the BBC."
http://www.petitiononline.com/rawk1/petition.html
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Thousands demand BBC knock MacKenzie off air
Dec 12 2006
By Sam Lister Liverpool Daily Post Staff
LIVERPOOL FC supporters have launched a petition calling for the BBC to drop former Sun editor Kelvin MacKenzie from its Christmas Day schedules.
More than 4,000 people have already signed the online form, including fans from Australia and Switzerland as well as rival clubs.
It follows revelations by the Daily Post earlier this month that the columnist had told a crowd of businessmen: "I was not sorry then and I'm not sorry now" for the paper's infamous coverage of the Hillsborough disaster.
The BBC has given him a two-hour teatime slot on Radio Five Live where he will present a News Review of the Year.
But outraged fans believe he should never have been offered a show on a station funded by licence payers.
Nick Harman, a marketing officer, started the online petition. He told the Daily Post: "We have already had 4,000 signatures in a matter of days.
"We have had emails from as far as Australia and Switzerland, that's how strong the feeling is.
"We don't believe Kelvin MacKenzie should be given a show on Christmas Day paid for with our licence fees.
"I was at Hillsborough that day and saw the tragedy happen. I wasn't injured and neither was anyone in my family but it has deeply affected me and hearing his comments has really angered me.
"I cannot imagine the families who did lose someone must feel when this man pipes up again with his lies.
"That's why we started this petition."
The petition has been organised by the Redandwhitekop.com website, an independent LFC supporters forum with 20,000 members.
It states: "We want the BBC to remove Kelvin MacKenzie as one of the hosts to their Christmas Day broadcast of the News Review of the Year on Radio Five Live at 5pm.
"Kelvin MacKenzie is, in the views of the undersigned, a man of great dishonesty with his actions after the Hillsborough football disaster and his refusal to back down on the lies he allowed to be printed."
Liverpool FC were playing Nottingham Forest in the FA Cup semi-final at the south Yorkshire stadium in 1989. Lord Justice Taylor's official inquiry found the cause of the disaster was overcrowding and failures by the police.
The Sun apologised in July 2004 saying it was "truly sorry" and that its false allegations were "the most terrible mistake in its history."
But Mr MacKenzie told more than 100 guests at the annual lunch of Newcastle law firm Mincoffs LLP he had only apologised to the people of Liverpool during a television appearance at the time of the tragedy because the newspaper's owner Rupert Murdoch had ordered him to.
He still stands by the story insisting the newspaper had been reporting 'the truth' when it accused Liverpool fans caught in the terrace crush of urinating on the dead and stealing from bodies.
Last night a spokeswoman for the BBC said: "As a former tabloid newspaper editor, Kelvin MacKenzie has a great deal of experience in this area and is well-qualified to give his take on the news stories of the year.
"Kelvin's private comments were entirely his own and in no way endorsed by the BBC."
I don’t think you understand. 
