Wednesday
May142008
by 
Bishop Hill
Bishop Hill Keep on knocking
Ok, so the BBC won't let me see the emails. Information held for journalistic purposes is exempt, it seems.
This isn't the end of the world though, because all I want is some confirmation that there were some emails, and if there were, when they arrived at the BBC.
I've gone back to the Beeb and asked if I can see the dates and times of email correspondence between Roger Harrabin and the WMO. Surely the dates and times of the emails isn't information held for journalistic purposes.
Reader Comments (5)
'The BBC and the Tories are both refusing to reveal what took place at a highly unusual meeting between David Cameron and BBC Director-General Mark Thompson on February 28.
Mr Thompson, accompanied by his chief political commissar Caroline Thomson (no relation of Mark, but married to New Labour EU fanatic Roger Liddle), went to Westminster to pay court to Mr Cameron.
After many weeks of mulling over a Freedom of Information request from my colleague Miles Goslett, the Corporation will not reveal what they talked about.
‘This meeting was intended to be . . . a private discussion and therefore it is BBC management’s opinion that the release of this document [notes of the meeting] would undermine the relation of trust between the BBC and senior politicians of all parties.’
A Tory spokesman would say only that they ‘discussed informally a wide range of subjects’. Well, I think I know what they were. And I can’t help thinking that the recent melodramatic change in the BBC view of the Tories is, as they say, not entirely unconnected'