Lord Hutton Report - Whitewash?
 

What do my other Professionals think? Has the BBC been made the fall guy? Is the Government really so free of blame - Lord Hutton thinks so? :hmm:

Take a read of the cover story in The Spectator........

http://www.spectator.co.uk/article.p...-01-31&id=4213

What is to be done, then. PFR? Do we call for an enquiry into the enquiry? If the BBC has been so wronged, why 2 resignations/?sackings? and no appeal, or even a hard-hitting 'Today' item criticising the report?

I personally was anticipating a blow against the government, but there comes a time when, as TB and GD said, we should 'draw a line' under it. This HAS to be the end of it. Lessons have been learned, I'm sure, on both sides.

I found Jon Snow's handling - yesterday (Wednesday) on the 1900 C4 news - crass to the point of being embarrassing, and I normally have a lot of time for him. His interview with Margaret Beckett was pitiful IMO. I have listened to Alistair Campbell on a few broadcasts in the last two days, and my views of him have mellowed somewhat.

We now have the media feeding on a frenzy of media news, which is pointlessly circulatory, do you not agree?

I believe it was a whitewash in that the government set the rules and limit of enquiry. I think that he fulfilled his remit to the full ,once again it was TB who has failed in doing a proper job by not (deliberately?) giving the right instructions.

I think the real interest is going to be in the enquiry into the intelligence information - that is shaping up to be a corker!

Time, I think, to open the betting on the Butler enquiry:rolleyes: