While they declined to assess the scientific merit of the programme, the judges found that Japan's behaviour was inconsistent with a nation solely interested in whale research.
But you do not need to take a view on issues such as these, or on the merits of the programme, to think that ignorance and crude populism are a bad basis for censorship or that none of this has anything to do with the government.All in all, it has been a bad week for the censors.
The Benefit-Cost Ratio (BCR) can be used to evaluate the economic merit of a programme.
The cost of this programme?
- Financial sustainability of this programme.
Many others praised the merit of this "tough love".
Technology analysts are divided about the merit of this decision.
Data source triangulation is a merit of this study.
Our results further suggest the merit of this.
The voice of the public will be key and they will have their own view about the merits of BBC programmes like Strictly and Sherlock.
It was grand, but had the merit of simplicity, and the programme presented a certain fitness to the occasion which one often misses in great public pageants.
