# Who's to blame for Kelly suicide -- BBC or Blair?

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**Created:** [July 21, 2003, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-to-blame-for-kelly-suicide-bbc-or-blair/189891 "2003-07-21T12:53:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![Avenger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9de0a6/32.png) [@Avenger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Avenger)\
**Post date:** [July 26, 2003, 7:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-to-blame-for-kelly-suicide-bbc-or-blair/189891/81 "2003-07-26T07:44:26Z")

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> It looks like the British public may be forced to rely on second-hand sources

Sky TV and ITN are still trying to get proceedings [televised](http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/3098195.stm)

But, in any case,

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> most of the inquiry’s sessions will be open to the public and media - except for those where Dr Kelly’s family are being questioned.

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> transcripts of all witness evidence would be released "almost immediately

I don’t think this is a major issue. Putting things like this on TV does not necesarily make them better, more transparant or more likely to discover the truth.

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**Author:** ![London\_Calling](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@London\_Calling](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/London_Calling)\
**Post date:** [July 26, 2003, 11:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-to-blame-for-kelly-suicide-bbc-or-blair/189891/82 "2003-07-26T11:04:44Z")

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This isn’t the US and I’m not sure I want this on teevee.

Without knowing anything of the details, one senses part of the problem for Dr Kelly was not just the Committee hearing itself but the manner in which it was conducted; the MP’s seem to take the televisual opportunity to promote themselves via ‘hard’ questioning, and even questioning he couldn’t hope to respond to but made them look ‘good’.

Don’t like it. A full transcript might suit me better than some stagey, self-promoting, teevee promoting media circus cum infotainment opportunity . . . may God save us . . .  
**Twisty** – I understand you’re a young man with lust on his mind but, please - just to humour this old man – think very carefully before putting words and phrases like “British”, “Government” and “full justice” in the same sentence. It can cause palpitations.

Campbell’s too smart and we’re not on the inside track so it’s difficult to read his game. It would seem reasonable, at this distance, to see this story as Campbell (a) temporarily (b) offering himself © as a distracting sacrificial lamb. But as I mentioned, it’s all fluid.

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