Tom Baldwin in an article at Times Online has some suggestions:
the BBC does not stand for principle but Blundering Bombastic Cynicism. Is the corporation becoming the Blair Baiting Campaign or is it a case of Blinkered Bosses Cornered? Maybe both. Bye Bye Credibility.”The strange case of Andrew Gilligan and the single anonymous source, which I commented on last week, is looking more and more like it’s capable of doing real damage to the BBC.
It didn’t have to be this way. The BBC could have backed down early on and hung Gilligan out to dry. Instead, they trotted out their mandarins like Russian dolls to stand by Gilligan and his story. Perhaps they were hoping that the appearance of successive layers of BBC management would somehow blind us to the facts.
If this story continues to run, and it shows every sign of doing so, then by this time next week I think some people will be looking for a sacrificial victim. It is becoming increasingly obvious, to everyone but the BBC, that there are no plausible candidates for this role on the government side.
Link via Instapundit.
UPDATE
The BBC reports: “A body matching the description of Dr David Kelly - the weapons expert at the centre of the Iraq dossier row - has been found at a beauty spot close to his home in Oxfordshire.”
