"Toby" wrote in message
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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'

LOL ! I hadn't heard her say that, she (HMG) might like to think the 'Man on
the Clapham Omli-bus' has the memory span of a newt but she is very wrong if
she thinks the public have forgotten that Campbell was employed by Blair at
the time of those complaints (the ones that started the whole sorry (Kelly)
state of affairs.