"I do feel that, because it's a very personal approach, if you catch someone on the wrong foot, it's more likely to generate a complaint," he said.
After generating a total of 960 complaints to Ofcom and 800 to Channel 4, the broadcasting watchdog announced on 25 February that it would investigate the programme, an inquiry described by The Guardian as "Ofcom's most high-profile investigation into a TV programme since it cleared Channel 4 of unfair racial stereotyping in Big Fat Gypsy Weddings".
Compared with offline retailers, Web merchants are generating a disproportionate number of consumer complaints with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC).
They continue to be a huge money-spinner for the banks, but fee-paying "packaged" current accounts are generating an increasing number of complaints from customers.
If I send an e-mail that generated a lot of complaints, I'll get dinged.
Appearances by Rihanna and Christina Aguilera have generated a flurry of complaints in past series.
Monday's episode, which included a shot of a boy standing naked with a cloth over his pill-enhanced erection, generated a lot of complaints in advance and drove several sponsors to pull their ads from the series.
But because the settlement would allow Google to scan and profit from copyright-protected books without the explicit permission of individual authors, the deal generated a litany of complaints.
His comments, coming just three weeks after a landmark UN climate science panel report that said warming over the past five decades was unprecedented over millennia and scientists were 95% sure it was caused by humans, generated a torrent of complaints on Twitter.
The publication of the tweets received extensive coverage in the media and generated a number of complaints to the firm and the SRA … Mr Small admits that the content of the tweets was unprofessional and offensive and as such he failed to behave in a way that maintains the trust the public places in him and in the provision of legal services".
