Letter: Censorship in the Milligan coverage
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Your support makes all the difference.Sir: At a time when no details, no analysis, no explanations of autoerotic strangulation - and not even any appreciation from his broadcasting colleagues - are available from the BBC, thank you for providing responsible news coverage of Stephen Milligan's death.
The BBC could at least have acknowledged the coy self-censorship that brushed its former European correspondent under the carpet (a trick worthy of Sir Norman Fowler); instead, its embarrassment will generate further misunderstanding of this sad affair, and obscure the politician and journalist who seems to have been a man of intelligence and humanity.
What we need is more understanding, less fudge.
Yours sincerely
LINDA SONNTAG
Hove, East Sussex
9 February
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