Dammit they apologised and dammit Greg Dyke resigned. Bollocks, they shouldn’t have doine that; the Board of Governers has lost its head for the moment – stupid, artsy white men who couldn’t take the pressure. Fucking idiots without balls.
Right now, I absolutely detest Alistar Campbell and Tony Blair. C*unts, the pair of them.
The UK Gov must be absolutly falling around laffing. This is how i see the story:
1.They realised they werent going to find any WMDs in Iraq and Blair would be stuffed.
2.They ( Campbell ) picked up on a small story broadcast at 6am which they knew had a hole in it, to temporarily divert attention.
4.Order an inquiry that will provide LOADS of media stories - its held in public ( again obscuring the real question ).
Blair appoints civil servant and friend to head the enquiry - LORD Hutton ( no clues there? )
Gov says it doesnt want to answer any questions untill after the Inquiry publishes its conclusion. ( 6 month breathing space )
Enquiry lasts another 4 months ( see above )
8.Civil servant and friend of Blair finds the civil servants and Blair to be totally without fault.
Everyone goes wow - that doesnt make any sense. Whats on telly tonight?
Gov wallows in self congratualtion, safe in the knowledge that every time they get asked about the WMDs or why we went to war, they can say that Lord Hutton investigated and found they had done nothing wrong.
You can hear this bs comming out loud and clear already ( Campbell on Newsnight last nite, his speach after publication, Blair in commons speach ). Made me wanna puke last nite watchin the news.
Of course now the gov has the momentum and BBC ( who i pay through the nose for ) will not be making political waves for some time to come.
By the time anyone important comes up and says right its time we found out why we went to war - you guessed it - Blair will say it was a while ago now, they have learnt lessons, and there would be no benefit in raking up the past.
Please dont ask for cites as these are general statements of what i believe has and will happen.
HTH
Sin
Erm London Calling, what happened between your 4.59 post and this?
What, you only just found out about the resignation(s?) and apology?!?
Any news of the outcome of the BBC Board of Governers 3 hour crisis meeting that was called for today? I agree it is a time for cool heads, especially there.
Panic, and the mass resignation of the Board might spell the end of BBC independence…
What about this ?:
[Just 48 hours before Lord Hutton delivers his verdict on the controversy surrounding the death of Dr David Kelly, the BBC has begun an advertising experiment that involves buying up all internet search terms relating to the inquiry.
Despite being one of the main players in the drama, anyone searching for “Hutton inquiry” or “Hutton report” on the UK’s most popular search engine Google is automatically directed to a paid-for link to BBC Online’s own news coverage of the inquiry.](http://http://media.guardian.co.uk/bbc/story/0,7521,1130050,00.html)
OK lets perform a little experiment. I have just done a google search on Hutton Inquiry and this is what I get:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=Hutton+Inquiry
To summarise, the hits in order are:
So either untrue, they have cocked even that up, or they have been ripped off. :rolleyes:
"they have cocked even that up"
They?
They as in the BBC.
I was suggesting that not only can the BBC cock up the original story, their editorial handling of it, their reaction to the government complaint and their reaction to the Hutton Report - but that they cannot even successfully “buy up all the internet search items related to the enquiry” if that indeed was what they were attempting.
Coming in 10th on their desired google search does not sound value for whatever money you source suggests they may have spent on the attempt.
Searching for “Hutton inquiry” on Google yields exactly the results one might expect: the official website, and items from a variety of news sources. The “sponsored links” on the right of the page don’t lead to the BBC, and BBC online coverage has dropped down to the second page … So, if the BBC “bought up” all search terms, they got a pretty rotten deal. (Anyway, if it was that easy to buy rankings on Google searches, a lot more people - including the people I work for - would be doing it.)
Perhaps you should have posted this on a Fantasy forum somewhere, since it’s all come out of your mind. Not only that, but no cites allowed. Still, never let the truth get in the way of a nice little personal rant.
I can’t see how it is possible to tell if Hutton’s report was fair or not. He found no evidence of govt. malfeasance beyond the outing of Kelly.
If this is all about Kelley, and free speech, well, Kelly said what he said. Maybe the Beeb went a little hyperbolic with post facto commentary, but the basic gist of Kelley’s words, recorded on tape, paint essentially the picture the Beeb asserted: Intelligence was distorted or unbalanced in some way to bolster the case for invading Iraq; there was a fixation on those bits of information supporting the existence of WMDs. If Kelley mispoke, or if his words were somehow glibly “taken out of context” (as everyone brainlessly asserts now when they really put their foot in it), then fine. But that hardly makes liars out of the Beeb reporters, and with such assertions as this, what is the editorial staff to do to back them up? The allegations go to the top of #10, and how is one to get access to that crowd? I don’t think the NY Times and the Wash. Post would sit on a story like this, to make sure they were “certain”. Media reports hearsay all the time, so how is this different?
Well, it’s different because a man killed himself in a fit of betrayal. Who betrayed him? Well, the Blair cabinet, basically. Is this not at all relevant? So there’s no evidence supporting Kelly’s statements. There wouldn’t be, would there? And anyway, what Kelly is hardly less than what many completely suspect, which is why I suppose his word alone was given much credence by the public. Then he goes and offs himself, and everything gets blown out of proportion.
Great, so Hutton thinks the BBC editorial staff is remiss. So what? Why all the heads rolling? I honestly can’t understand the magnitude of the response. It’s not the Beeb’s fault Hutton killed himself, and if they publish one man’s accusations about Blair, that’s what it is; nothing more, nothing less. Again, I assert that if the alleged Kelly “sexing-up” observation didn’t already resonate strongly with the public, no one would give two thoughts to any of this.
A rather amateurish whitewash in my opinion. In a good whitewash you will have the appearance of being evenhanded overlying the protection of your critical point so its not so obvious. It just looks contrived when you totally exonerate one side and lay all blame on the other, sort of like a dictator winning 100% of the vote. I’m not surprised at the outcome though, Blair was most likely finished if Hutton had gone against him so that clearly couldnt be allowed to happen. I didnt think they would make it quite so blatant though.
Anyway its kind of reassuring to see that according to the polls most of the British public is already seeing the exercise for what it is:
Breaking News!!! Hold the front page!
Yeah, yeah, yeaaahhh, laugh it up 