BBC: Bigots As "Balance"

Stonewall's Ben Summerskill writes for Media Guardian on Auntie's failings; 'More Straight Talking From The BBC'.
Failings! Such as, Mr Ben?
"In September last year, 62-year old Ian Baynham was brutally attacked in the middle of Trafalgar Square in a homophobic attack [CCTV image above]. The outrage, which caused significant levels of fear among gay people, never made the BBC's national TV news even after Baynham's life support was turned off 18 days later.
"In late October, Newsnight chose to follow up the killing.
"Accompanying a live interview with the Independent's Johann Hari was the bizarre controversialist Anne Atkins. Her contribution was to suggest darkly that there might be something mysterious about the murders of so many gay men recently.
"It wouldn't have taken a Googling BBC intern more than a minute to establish that Atkins has form around the issue of homosexuality. The Press Complaints Commission censured her in 1998 for "failing to distinguish between conjecture and fact" when writing in the Sun that "a gay man is, alarmingly, 17 TIMES more likely to be a paedophile than a straight man. This is not opinion; it is fact."
"And the BBC's extraordinary explanation for Atkins' appearance on Newsnight?
"Balance."
The solution - according to Mr Summerskill - would appear to be for the BBC to join Stonewall's Diversity Champions scheme.
Which rather handily involves coompanies - or indeed a corporation - giving Stonewall lots of money.
Bizarrely, on the Media Guardian online version this article was headed; 'Why aren't there any openly gay staff at the top of the BBC?'
Hardly his main point...