(with thanks to Clarice
Feldman)
THE BBC
RETREATS:
They don't want their reporter Andrew Gilligan's
parliamentary testimony published. It could be too damning. Their official
argument? Gilligan is "under stress" and it could affect his health. So a
journalist backed by the biggest media entity in Europe who has accused the
government of lying is too fragile to have his own public comments published.
What a crock. A parliamentary committee member comments: "There appear to be
compassionate grounds not to publish the evidence. We're in a situation here
where if we publish the evidence and something happens to Mr Gilligan we'd be in
a very difficult situation." In my opinion, the BBC is going down. But there are
plenty of twists to come in this tale, I'm
sure.
