Best news I've heard all day.

Now why don't the editors-in-chief of American media have the same testicularity?

Why are there so many faceless, gutless goons in the mainstream media supporting the crud being peddled by the Bush administration? Does the mainstream media expect that ALL their readers/viewers can be easily taken for fools?

I am a self confessed news junkie and I can safely say I've never seen anything like this.

God help us all if the Government successfully stop the BBC from acting independently.

My guess is that Campbell is trying to take the heat off of Blair.
We are all distracted by this extraordinary argument that we all forget that it is Blair who is accused of misleading Parliament not Campbell.

Campbell knows he is going to have to go he's trying to do it in the most distracting way possible.

The Sunday papers will be interesting but the first big milestone is on Monday when the Cross Party Foreign Affairs Select Commitee give their verdict after talking to Cook,Short,Straw,Campbell,and others.

The worse case scenario is that they call for an open Public Enquiry into the whole matter.Both the Conservatives and Liberals have been calling for this.

These things take time.It took a long time for Nixon to go after Watergate.

But Campbell will be the first to go.Straw is already distancing himself from him.He is being left out to dry.

Not so fast.

This could merely be a smokescreen.
The UN used the same tactic.

I tend to the "storm in a teacup" view, here. To be sure this is unprecedented -although posters of Estragon's vintage will recall Mrs Thatcher came close to turning the Harriers on Bush House over the reporting of the Falkland's war.
I'm not even sure that the Beeb actually "can" sue the government -i.e. is it legally feasible.
A close look at the literature will reveal that this isn't an attack on Blair as such.
So, as I say, this may just be smoke, or sound and fury signifying nothing.

I heard it being referred to as Baghdad Broadcasting Corporation.