We hope that the BBC Trust will be watching closely to ensure that this sort of undue prominence doesn't occur again".
But its prominence didn't come from nowhere; the group has been cannily opportunistic in helping vulnerable people at inflection points such as the 2004 tsunami.
Aswany's new prominence did not diminish his criticism of the regime: he was one of the founders of Kifaya, a heroically rag-tag anti-Mubarak coalition composed of Nasserists, socialists, liberals, and assorted others who, in 2004, began to stage protests against the government usually a hundred people at most, ringed by far larger crowds of state security police in riot gear.
Aswany's new prominence did not diminish his criticism of the regime: he was one of the founders of Kifaya, a heroically rag-tag anti-Mubarak coalition composed of Nasserists, socialists, liberals, and assorted others who, in 2004, began to stage protests against the government — usually a hundred people at most, ringed by far larger crowds of state security police in riot gear.
Moreover, this roots rocker's rise to pop cultural prominence didn't happen overnight.
Robert Prosinečki was a bona fide superstar throughout the early nineties, but his rise to prominence did not come about without controversy.
Joseph Brittan soon got involved in the usual activities of early settlers and gained prominence in doing so.
During colonial times, dealing in contraband here was practically considered an honorable act of defiance against a Spanish crown that only permitted trade with Spain itself, and many elite families originally grew to prominence by doing it.
As Facebook rose to prominence, so did its model of what it meant to interact online.
But in addressing those issues, lets not give the BNP a prominence it does not deserve.
