[Media-watch]Blix

[David Miller {FMS}]

Maybe someone should write to simon.mayo at bbc.co.uk and ask him what
happened?

David

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> From: 	John Meed
> Sent: 	Tuesday, March 9, 2004 10:46 AM
> To: 	YvonneMarshall; media-watch at lists.stir.ac.uk
> Subject: 	Re: [Media-watch]Blix
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> <<File: ATT22309.txt>>
> Dear Ian/Mediawatch
> 
> You can revisit the Blix interview on the BBC website at:
> 
> http://www.bbc.co.uk/fivelive
> 
> However, interestingly, the extract ends with the tactful answer i.e.
> Blair used 'insufficient critical judgement in this case'.
> 
> If you listen to the full version of the Simon Mayo show, the actual
> question and answer were:
> 
> Mayo: 'Is he (Blair) trustworthy?'
> 
> Blix (after deep intake or breath): 'His positions were not to be trusted
> in this case.'
> 
> And then comes the click ? and silence!
> 
> Regards
> 
> John
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 	From: "YvonneMarshall" <Brotherhoods at stevenston4.fsnet.co.uk>
> 	Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2004 20:57:10 -0000
> 	To: <media-watch at lists.stir.ac.uk>
> 	Subject: [Media-watch] {SPAM?} 
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> 	Dear List-members,
> 
> 	Did anyone hear the Simon Mayo show on BBC R5 today ? He was talking
> to Hans Blix, on the line from Stockholm. Blix repeated much of the same
> stuff he came out with at the week-end, then the interview was interrupted
> to cover a Press Conference about the predicamant of the Leicester City
> players in Spain. When the interview resumed. Mayo asked Blix if he
> reckoned T Blair is trustworthy. Blix replied diplomatically, saying that
> Blair is a powerful politician, but that on the issue of Iraq/WMD etc his
> judgement was not as critical as it could've been. Mayo pressed the
> original question, 'Is he trustworthy ?' Blix sounded rather amused, but
> fenced no further, and said (I'm paraphrasing here, don't have it taped)
> words to the effect that 'no, on this issue, he can't be trusted...' At
> that point there was an audible soft click and the line went dead. Mayo
> sounded shocked, even embarrassed, said something like 'Well, I'm sorry,
> perhaps someone was, well, we can't say that...'
> 
> 	If someone like Hans Blix cannot speak his mind on such weighty
> matters without being silenced, what chance have the rest of us ? Okay,
> the Beeb has been through the wringer of late, but presumably the BBC was
> responsible for establishing the telephone contact with Mr Blix and its
> own technicians would have been monitoring the integrity of the line prior
> to interview. Who stopped the interview ? Did it happen inside the BBC, or
> are its lines subjected to instant and anonymous editorial control by
> other parties ? How is such interference technically achieved, and who
> authorises it ?  Is this 'unfortunate incident' simply not worthy of
> comment, isn't 'newsworthy' because, well, 'these things happen' ?
> 
> 	Is this just conspiratorial raving ?
> 
> 	Interested for any thoughts on this.
> 
> 	Regards,
> 
> 	Ian Brotherhood  
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