Would love to have a link to your blog.
With so much bias shown, I wonder who sponsored the program? Any formula
companies?
Sharing a virtual tea and sending you good thoughts.

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On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 3:58 PM, Morgan Gallagher <
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> Just a quick note to let you know, I've just been thrown off a BBC World
> Service programme, for saying that unsafe formula feeding kills babies in
> Africa.
>
> The programme went out live at 6pm, BST time, here, and I was booked, at
> the last minutes, to do an hour of the whole world programme, and then the
> 30 minutes afterwards, on Africa only.
>
> When I asked the discussion about breastfeeding be 'creepy' be about women
> being put in impossible position, and maybe we should look at why an
> intelligent, articulate, well educated woman in the UK would be so creeped
> out by a baby touching her breast... the mic was closed.  When I said we
> needed to address the pressure to formula feed, not the pressure to
> breastfeed... the mic was closed.  When I stated that 4000 babies die
> everyday from unsafe formula feeding... the mic was closed.
>
> I was then taken off air, and roundly shouted at by the producer.  I
> challenged her, and stated that we could not have global context discussion
> on breastfeeding, without discussing formula feeding, and how on earth could
> she ask a women in Nairobi if she'd support a woman to formula feed if she
> wanted to?  That ignoring the situation in Africa with formula, and acting
> if we were all in the UK, was precisely the bias they were showing.  She
> said the World Service was for everyone, and I asked how a women in the
> slums in Kenya, tonight, would feel, listening to us prattling on about
> formula feeding as a supported choice.  Did she have any idea who many
> babies would die tonight, in Kenya, from formula feeding?
>
> She blew up, said I'd said formula feeding kills babies, and that was
> making her very angry, and I was out of the programme.  A taxi would be
> called to take me away right away, and good bye.
>
> I'll blog thoroughly when I've had a cup of tea,
>
> But, somehow, I thought you'd like to to know, about the censorship that
> occurred this evening, at the hands of the BBC World Service.
>
> Morgan Gallagher
>
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