Capitol wrote:
The big picture is that the BBC report was substantially
correct and 80% of the British people know it!
Absolutely, and nearly every other media organisation had a similar
conclusion.
By charter the BBC can't voice an opinion or take a stance, if Gilligan had
just written his original piece in The Daily Mail none of this would have
happened. A lot of this is down to Alastair Campbell and his ongoing
dispute(s) with the BBC. It seems to jar to hear Tessa Jowell[1] distance
herself by stating that AC's comments were 'just those of a private
individual'

We need a channel like Fox News in the UK, to give

Hopefully you meant like the _inverse_ of Fox News, and it's "yee-hah we
shot up them eee-rah-keys good an' proper" jingoism.

Toby.

[1] Said Britons need lessons in understanding television so they can
differentiate between opinion and fact. "Everyone needs to be able to decode
the way the media works, questioning everything in order to understand
everything"

As minister for public health, she was at the centre of the Ecclestone
affair over tobacco sponsorship of Formula One.