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.

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[Mac the Knife]

If the WMO has a UK office, why not pop them with a FOIA request? Just a thought Your Grace... :)

[Bishop Hill]

Would FoI apply to UN bodies? I wouldn't have thought so.

[Mac the Knife]

If they're on UK soil, it might be worth a punt...

[Andrew]

Talking about the BBC the Daily Mail has an interesting take on the reasons behind there softening towards the Conservatives and David Cameron:

'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'

[Bishop Hill]

Fascinating. I wonder if the future of the licence fee under the Conservatives has been secured.