THE BBC’S UNRAVELING

The leading anti-Blair BBC journalist, Andrew Gilligan, has received a withering assessment from the parliamentary committee looking into his charges that the Blair government politically manipulated intelligence findings. They claim in the Guardian today that Gilligan changed his story in mid-interrogation, calling him “an unsatisfactory witness.” These people aren’t Blair stooges. And they’re getting a strong whiff of the BBC’s Rainesian corruption. Meanwhile, the Times’ Tom Baldwin weighs in on “Bye Bye Credibility.”