Complaint
This series, originally broadcast on Radio 4 in 2010, chronicled an attempt to drive across Europe in an electric car.聽 A listener complained that, as two episodes were incorrectly date-stamped 2021, other listeners would have been given a misleading impression of the difficulties which drivers of electric cars currently face, resulting in bias against electric cars and their use.聽 The ECU considered the complaint in the light of the 麻豆官网首页入口鈥檚 editorial standards of accuracy and impartiality.
Outcome
Despite the incorrect date stamp, the ECU considered the content of the two episodes in question would have made clear to listeners that they related to a much earlier stage in the development of electric car use.聽 Consequently it did not consider the date stamp to have been materially misleading, or likely to have resulted in a prejudicial view of electric cars and their use.
Not upheld