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...faced the worst crisis in its 80?year history. Its chairman, Gavyn Davies, resigned the day Hutton issued his brutal criticisms of the Beeb's journalistic practices and governing-board oversight, but offered an apology so tepid that Downing Street sought more. The next day the Director General, Greg Dyke, also resigned, but he too felt angry and denounced Hutton's conclusions, which many commentators were already calling a whitewash. The acting chairman, Richard Ryder, declared he had "no hesitation in apologizing unreservedly for our errors and to the individuals whose reputations were affected by them." Blair quickly accepted...
...objections of the intelligence community, allegedly at the behest of Blair's powerful communications director, Alastair Campbell. The testimony to Hutton showed that top spies put it in, and believed it at the time. Hutton also condemned the BBC's haphazard investigation into Gilligan's claims. Davies and Dyke were so determined to assert the BBC's independence that they circled the wagons around Gilligan without establishing whether his work stood up - and Hutton concluded that Kelly did not say all the things Gilligan pinned on him. But having extracted a simple morality tale from Gilligan's sloppy reporting, Hutton...
...Greg Dyke BBC director general Resigned, but is sure to contest Hutton's report from the wings...
...Wellesley Dyke Ball: All’s Wellesley That Eats Wellesley
...plans to offer another choice: log on at www.bbc.co.uk, pick the episode you fancy and, at least if you're a British citizen, watch it free on your PC. That tantalizing prospect was raised by an announcement at the Edinburgh TV Festival in August by BBC director general Greg Dyke. The Beeb is planning a "digital creative" archive that will make what he calls "the best television library in the world" available online. It's a service, Dyke says, that the BBC's charter compels it to provide free to all British citizens. But BBC lovers abroad may have...