World At One (BBC Radio 4) today ended with a piece on No 10 petitions - and at about 1325 they started a list of petitions to be taken "less than seriously" with the Reds petition, despite mentioning that it had more than 25000 signatures. I dashed off a quick email asking why they were treating it as not serious - hoping they might fit a mention in before the end of the programme.
They didn't - but I did get a nice personal reply from Shaun Ley, the presenter. he said they weren't intending to suggest it wasn't serious - but went on to say "it's good to be kept on our toes".
As they say, there's no such thing as bad publicity.
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