Critics of BBC's critics are out of touch

I apologise to those who feel tired of the BBC topic. However, we do get the media we deserve.
Regarding Ken Malcolm, he freely chose to leave our BBC group in February 2011 – for a start, he didn't like my “management style” – so he is vastly out of touch with the way the campaign has progressed since then.
If he had stuck with us – his sharp, pertinent points were always valued – he would be in a much better position to argue the facts.
From the start, confidentiality within the group has been guaranteed. Diversity of opinion has been painstakingly and consistently taken into account, and incorporated into all correspondence with the BBC as much as possible.
As with democracy, not everyone gets his own way.
Malcolm is absolutely wrong in stating that our list of “truths is pure opinion”. For example, “...the BBC issued an apology to the government...” are the words of Sarah Ward-Lilley, deputy head of newsgathering at the BBC, and I am in possession of a DVD that contains an inaccurately translated broadcast interview.
As for the rest, we intend putting it all online in due course.
Finally, Malcolm claims that I have turned the whole operation into a “smear campaign” against a “local” BBC journalist (who has since been posted elsewhere), though he fails to elaborate on what is quite a serious accusation.
Instead, it is his personal vendetta against me that has ended up in the public domain. This is not the first time that Ken Malcolm has questioned my integrity. Previously he has seen fit to apologise.
Our overall standpoint and the campaign modus operandi will continue and we remain united on that.
John Shepherd
Bangkok