Word: whitewashed
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...billboards advertise mostly local products, such as Spirulina ("Beer That Makes You Young Forever"), or nothing at all. Like in a city at war, fruit and vegetables are cultivated in the grounds of public buildings. Part of the front lawn of the seldom-visited Drug Elimination Museum, built to whitewash the regime's dubious antinarcotics record, has been turned into a pomelo orchard. Power shortages still plague the capital, as they did during my first visit more than seven years ago, and emergency generators clog the pavements. With municipal water supplies equally erratic, joke the Burmese, it's lucky...
...true. Hutton condemned the BBC's circle-the-wagons response after the government blasted Gilligan's story. The BBC's chairman, its director-general and Gilligan resigned, though they took shots at Hutton's report and comfort from a wide variety of commentators who called it a whitewash. The acting BBC management announced a review of editorial controls and tried to calm employees who staged protest strikes...
...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 the apology and said he planned to "move on." But spontaneous walkouts of BBC staff chanting "We Want Greg" - and unexpected...
...belief Lord Hutton could find these miscreants not guilty." The risk for Blair now is that the very size of the victory awarded by Hutton will provoke a destabilizing backlash. An NOP poll taken the day Hutton issued his report found that 49% of the public considered it "a whitewash" - that percentage rose in subsequent surveys - and an ICM poll shows that three times more people trust the BBC (31%) to tell the truth than the government (10%), with 49% saying "neither." It would hurt Blair to be seen as continuing to kick the state broadcaster when it's down...
...Northern Ireland , heard 25 days of evidence from 72 witnesses - all of it posted daily on the inquiry's website. His 328-page report exonerated the government and castigated the BBC. "Lord Hutton has performed a massive public service," wrote the Sun newspaper. But others called the report a whitewash - unbalanced and unfairly critical. Bernard Ingham, Margaret Thatcher's onetime press secretary, said, "The BBC has been horribly badly dealt with by Hutton, which is the most one-sided report you could ever imagine...