Shaken BBC prepares to defend its reputation

Financial Times ^ | July 20 2003 | Tim Burt, Media Editor in London

[Hans]

I thought the BBC had Tony Blair on the ropes?
Could the left be overplaying it's hand?

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

Shaken BBC prepares to defend its reputation

Just like the New York Times and many other outlets of the liberal media. People are getting sick of a media that is without accountability. We're sick of the media flat-out fabricating stories and having all forgiven by drafting a paper apology and firing a few people.

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

Mr Gilligan is now on "gardening leave".

LOL!!!!!!!!!

[Parley Baer]

Hehehe. The chickens are comming home to roost. Parley

[Dog]

BBC circling the wagons.

[MizSterious]

But the question is, is Mr. Gilligan still digging? ;)

[Dog]

The BBC decision, however, served only to increase the pressure on Mr Kelly. Sunday's admission that he was the principal source for both Mr Gilligan and another BBC report leaves the corporation exposed on several other fronts.

Mr Kelly told members of Parliament that from his contacts with Mr Gilligan "I do not see how he could make the authoritative statement that he was making from the comments that I made".

Kelly was telling the truth.......Gilligan made the whole article up ....I'll bet anything.

[YaYa123]

"Gardening leave"....dontcha love the innocuous sound of that one.

But at least the BBC is upfront in the intent of the investigation...to protect itself, no mention that I recall, of finding out the truth and punishing those responsible. Self-flagellation must not be a British thang.

[Dog]

Could this be moved to breaking news ......so other freepers logging on later can see it.

[JZoback]

It's pretty obvious the BBC got caught pushing an agenda to smear Tony Blair and our President.

I wonder how long the left in this country will continue to try and play up this PR disaster for the BBC as the smoking gun to drag GWB to impeachment hearing.

Should be very interesting when all is said and done.

Seems Mr Kelly is proving a point: It is dangerous to be a liberal after all.

[Dog]

A man died because a BBC reporter was pushing his agenda. ......amazing.

[HardStarboard]

Unless I misheard or misread a couple of accounts in the past two days, it seemed to me that the press thought Kelly's suicide would bring Tony Blair down.

Now the shoe appears to be on BBC's foot - and its a shoe-bomb.

This is simply delightful. Can we somhow implicate NPR in the same deal?

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

They still got this into the article:

In the US, some TV networks have been criticised for flag-waving and unquestioning coverage of the conflict.

[magua]

bagdad broadcasting company is going down.

[Howlin]

This should be interesting. Blame the dead man.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Thanks for the ping!

Good to see the media getting some heat !

[Dialup Llama]

>"Gardening leave"....dontcha love the innocuous sound of that one.

I like it much better than the 'personal reasons' or the 'to spend time with his family' boilerplate reasons. I'm going on tango leave. I'm going to go on leave and just hang out and drink some.

[atomic conspiracy]

BBC Bias Watch Damning indictment, new dirt every day.

Media workers against war (Trotskyite group run by BBC employees' union)

[OldFriend]

gardening leave.......yellow cake leave.......same difference!!!