EastEnders: Inventing Outrage

Do you remember this story from earlier in the week?
EastEnders: TV Watershed Gay Non-Outrage!!!
The BBC had received "some" complaints from viewers "who felt a scene featuring Christian and Syed in bed together during an episode of EastEnders was inappropriate."
They posted a response on the BBC Complaints website.
Fagburn thought it was pretty good - and a nicely drawn line in the sand in the wake of the Bailey Report;
"The BBC cannot discriminate by treating gay characters differently to heterosexual characters.
"We have also received a lot of very positive feedback about the storyline regarding Christian and Syed's relationship."
Effectively Auntie was saying "So what? Piss off."
But a rather strange piece appeared today on the Guardian's Comment Is Free website claiming;
'The EastEnders furore shows gay equality is still a long way off'
Sorry! What "furore"?!
The story only made it into one newspaper, Metro.
'EastEnders forced to defend Christian and Syed's gay bed scenes'
This was dutifully regurgitated by Jamie Tabberer in The Pink Paper
"Eastenders bosses have been forced to defend its resident gay characters' bed scenes following complaints..."
On Comment Is Free Frances Ryan was happy to repeat this nonsense once more;
"Two weeks ago, in its primetime soap EastEnders, the BBC showed resident gay couple Christian Clarke and Syed Masood in bed. On Thursday it was forced to release a public statement to defend it."
This is shamefully tabloid-esque - the BBC were not "forced to release a statement".
They posted one from the Editorial Complaints Unit on the BBC Complaints website.
Complaints to the BBC are automatically referred to the Editorial Complaints Unit if anyone refuses to take "sorry" for an answer more than once.
You can read recent rulings here.
Other FURORES the BBC has been FORCED TO DEFEND include
"A programme [that] gave the erroneous impression that pensioners, as a group, were more prone to road accidents than any other age-group."
And a complaint about someone being bleeped during an interview WHEN THEY HADN'T ACTUALLY USED A CUSSWORD! ("Upheld!")
Frances Ryan carries on regardless;
"This means two things: there are still viewers out there for whom homosexuality is of such concern a nod to its existence warrants complaint, and there were enough of them to require a broadcaster to feel it had to respond."
Not really, no.
"Some" may have been two complaints - it was a matter of persistence, not quantity.
The BBC always responds to all complaints, anyway.
Even campaigns co-ordinated by loopy Christian fringe groups.
If I emailed the BBC complaining that the number of launderettes in Albert Square was unrealistic, I'd get an official reply. Probably.
Ryan concludes puffily;
"What we see on screen has an effect, and the more popular and widespread the programme, the greater this is. The complainers are right. What their children see does matter. This is the very reason the BBC should keep its nerve and refuse to pander to them."
Er, they have.
What is point?