Martin Lewis and Lorraine Kelly of GMTV have got themselves in trouble with Ofcom. [Ed: It's a surprise to us that this hasn't happened before.] However, it’s GMTV who are in breach of the Ofcom rules which:
prohibits the promotion of products and services, unless they meet the Code’s definition of programme-related material
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You do realise how annoyed GMTV’s new owner ITV will be at the BBC’s coverage of this.
Lewis appears on the BBC for no fee in return for his website being plugged.
That’s the end of him calling himself a journalist while selling credit cards and savings accounts.
No surprise that the gutless, industry funded FSA failed to step in.
@Sam, not the first time the FSA have been found lacking. I wouldn’t mind so much if they were concentrating on some of the big things happening outside of insurance.
Good, how he loved the spotlight and incredibly managed to be more irritating than Lorraine Kelly too.
Good lets hope he now gets sacked!!!
I’m so glad. This guy really gets on my t!ts.
What about him being promoted on the Jeremy Vine show on BBC Radio 2. How much does the traffic to his website shoot up by after one of these appearances? Arguably this is worse than GMTV, which actually carries advertising. The BBC is supposed to be unbiased and impartial and promotion-free, yet Martin is making thousands on the back of this.
Another reason to hate him – he’s now trying to justify continuing to take the News Of The World’s cash http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.php?t=3342530