I take it from the silence on Hutton that most of you are as gobsmacked as I
by the honourable's "conclusions" and the reactions of HMG and BBC to them.
I seem to recall, a week or two back, hearing something about him working on
the first Bloody Sunday hearings and having a slight frisson of anxiety
about the outcome of the Dr Kelly enquiry as a result of that.
It seems that HMG has been handed a major blunt instrument to bludgeon the
BBC with and I fear greatly for the future of decent, intelligent,
non-Murdoch journalism in the UK. Though John Snow's restrained venom has
been encouraging to see on C4 news last two nights and leaves me with some
hope for the future.
Declan
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