Traveller Movement "threatened" by TV watchdog over Big Fat Gypsy Weddings campaign

From the Travellers' Times

THE Traveller Movement have launched Judicial Review proceedings against Ofcom’s “flawed” investigation of their complaints about the Channel 4 series ‘Big Fat Gypsy Weddings’, despite being told by Ofcom that they will seek to recover costs if they lose.

The Judicial Review follows the dismissal by Ofcom; the TV regulator, of a complaint lodged by the Traveller Movement and eight Gypsy and Traveller co-complainants, who said that the programmes “perpetuated racist stereotypes, broke Ofcom regulations regarding consent, sexually exploited Traveller children and caused untold harm to social cohesion by pandering to popular misconceptions and prejudices towards Gypsies and Travellers”.

The Traveller Movement are represented by David Enright from Howe and Co solicitors, who represented the TM and six Gypsy and Traveller co-complainants in a complaint to the Advertising Standards Authority about Channel 4’s “Gypsier” billboard advertising campaign for Big Fat Gypsy Weddings.

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