Tuesday, May 11, 2004


Melanie Phillips reports:

'The BBC internal inquiry into what went wrong over Andrew Gilligan's infamous Today broadcast which led to the David Kelly affair and the Hutton inqury and provoked the biggest crisis in the Beeb's history, has found that nothing went wrong apart from Andrew Gilligan and no-one was to blame apart from Andrew Gilligan.'

Michael Grade's comment? :

"The greatest threat to the independence of the BBC is the self-censorship of the staff."

Andrew Gilligan's (apart from the obligatory self-defence):

"I am broadly pleased with the outcome of the inquiry, in that the BBC seems finally to have joined the rest of the country in rejecting the conclusions of Lord Hutton."

Not quite what I was thinking, but all interesting responses.



 
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