Stumbling Over Truth: The inside story of the 'sexed-up' dossier, Hutton and the BBC
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- Опубликовано: 18 сен 2012
- 8/09/12 It has been ten years since the publication of the "September Dossier", part of an ongoing investigation by the government into weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. The following year, on 29 May, the then BBC defence correspondent Andrew Gilligan reported on Radio 4's Today programme that he had been told by an unnamed source that the dossier had been "sexed up". His source was later revealed to be government scientist Dr David Kelly who was subsequently found dead in a field in Oxfordshire.
The Hutton Inquiry set up to investigate the circumstances surrounding Dr Kelly's death lead to one of the biggest shake ups the BBC has seen. Not only did it cost the corporation its chairman and director general, but many believe it brought in a new age of caution.
Kevin Marsh who was editor of the Today programme at the time was not given an opportunity to give evidence at the Inquiry. Now, after leaving the BBC, he reveals for the first time in his new book how the BBC reacted in the face of unprecedented government pressure.
Kevin Marsh and others will be joining us to ask to what extent have the events of ten years ago affected the BBC and its willingness to tackle stories that challenge the government line. Does the British media still have the ability - or appetite - to hold power to account?
Chaired by Roy Greenslade, media commentator and Professor of journalism at London's City University. He was editor of the Daily Mirror (1990-91), was managing editor (news) at The Sunday Times (1987-90) and assistant editor of The Sun (1981-86). Twitter: @GreensladeR
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Kevin Marsh, one of the BBC's longest-serving frontline programme editors. He has edited Radio 4's PM, The World at One, The World This Weekend and Today. He also developed and launched Broadcasting House. In 2006 he became the BBC College of Journalism's first executive editor and left the BBC in 2011 to set up his own media teaching and coaching company OffspinMedia.
Lance Price, a writer, broadcaster, commentator and executive director of the Kaleidoscope Trust. He is author of Where Power Lies, The Spin Doctor's Diary and Time & Fate. He is a former BBC Political Correspondent and Director of Communications for the Labour Party.
Clare Short, former MP for Birmingham Ladywood from 1983 to 2010 and Secretary of State for International Development from 1997 to May 2003. In 2003 she resigned from the Government over the Iraq war and in 2006, she resigned the Labour whip. She is author of An Honourable Deception? New Labour, Iraq, and the Misuse of Power.
Professor Richard Tait CBE, Professor of Journalism and former Director of the Centre for Journalism Studies at Cardiff University. He has served as a BBC Governor from 2004-2006 and a BBC Trustee from 2007-2010. He is a former editor of BBC's Newsnight, Channel 4 News and Editor-in-Chief of ITN. He is is currently Chairman of INSI UK.
I've thought long and hard about the Iraq war and I still struggle to decide where I stand on it. I've read various books, seen a number of documentaries and spoken to a number of people who were directly involved in it. A friend of mine served as infantry during the conflict and he's told me about some atrocities and some of the horrific things he experienced, which included seeing some if his colleagues and friends die in the most awful ways; but interestingly he still believes that going to war was the right thing to do. What really baffles me in that Campbell, Blair and New Labour get so much more criticism than George Bush and the United States, even though they lead the invasion and provided 90% of the military power.
If you watch Killing Kelly it seems he was assassinated.
This is an absurd discussion, unless BBC journalists and politicians like Clare Short are really this naive.
"Governments lie". I.F. Stone.
“...politicians are obliged from time to time to conceal the full truth, to bend it and even distort it, where the interests of the bigger strategic goal demand that it be done”. Tony Blair
1:045 What the fuck was that? Someone trying to ask a question and being blindsided by an, "I was there" question? In the context of a discussion about control? My God, these people are SO special and SO important! And they think we're really trivial and unimportant ... Christ! We don't need to do anything ... it's all going to crumble to shit in their hands.
41,51 Some wanker telling Clare Short to "sshh, sshh". Her face is hilarious.
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No statue of limitations..introduce the guilty to Madame La Guillotine..take her to their old folks homes if needs be
1.32.00 The Guardians censoring Julian Assange disaster: AhBrightWings 2.10.12 6:08PM
"You've got to be flipping kidding me. I write a post on a dedicated thread called "Moderation: an open discussion | Glenn Greenwald", complimenting another poster on her archive and
seconding her request that she be allowed to know why it disappeared, and my post is taken down in that uniquely cowardly way without a box even noting it's been moderated?" The establishment Information Operations continues?
On net worth Blair’s close relatives probably have over a BILLION
1:115 ... You suddenly deaf, Richard? Or living on another planet? He's talking about the deaths in Afghanistan. You know, lots of people have died there in the last ten years ... When you were working in the media did you not possibly think that war might make people dead? Why are you so suddenly hard of hearing? You've had no problems hearing your media mates...
Richard Tait adds very little, he loves the sound of his own voice though.
41 mins ... "your precision of language is different from Kevin's precision of language". How important do these people think they are?
A 'sexed up dossier' is parliamentary slang for a porno magazine right? Or a good name for a punk band. Either way, I'm here by mistake..