I watched the program, 'A Fight To The Death', on the
Discovery/Times Channel (that's the NYT) last night. It's
a BBC/NYT 2 hour whitewash of the BBC/Andrew Gilligan
scandal & the Hutton Report. The NYT spent most of the 2
hours attacking Tony Blair & the British government &
President Bush. When not in attack mode, they distorted &
whitewashed the BBC's lack of integrity, Gilligan's lies &
the near complete failure of the BBC to investigate
Gilligan's odious lack of journalistic integrity, although
they chose to blindly stand behind him to the bitter end.
The fact that the NYT & the BBC created this lousy piece
of revisionist history when the Hutton Report's exhaustive
investigation factually lambasted the BBC, seems to be
completely lost on both organizations.
If anyone thinks that liberal media bias doesn't exist, I
suggest you watch this so called documentary. It should be
considered right up there with anything conjured up by
Michael Moore.
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'Panorama' special to air in America
19:09 GMT, Saturday 28th February 2004 -- by James Welsh
Panorama: A Fight To The Death, a special episode of the BBC One current affairs programme that aired a week before Lord Hutton published the findings of his inquiry, will air in America next week.
Described by Melvyn Bragg as a "landmark" programme for BBC current affairs, the programme examined the conflict between the Government and the BBC during the David Kelly affair. Dr. David Kelly, a civil servant, was unmasked as the "senior source involved in the drawing up of the dossier" that Andrew Gilligan cited when claiming in his report on BBC Radio 4 that the Government had "sexed up" its dossier regarding Iraqi weapons of mass destruction.
The programme will form part of an evening of programming on the Discovery Times channel, a digital cable joint-venture between Discovery and the New York Times. Power And The Press, airing from 8-10pm ET on Tuesday night, will examine the entire conflict and Hutton Inquiry, with the Panorama special forming the central part of the broadcast.
Vivian Schiller, senior vice president and general manager, Discovery Times Channel, said:
"Although somewhat of a departure from our normal documentary fare, we felt it was extremely important to present this special as an artifact of history to the American public as events continue to unfold surrounding intelligence investigations in both the U.S. and the U.K. This program is also a milestone event in the history of the BBC – an investigation of its own reporting that preceded the resignations of both the chairman and the Director General of one of the most powerful media companies in the world."
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