Remember back in 2003 when the British government told BBC to toe the party line or else?

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http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4156/is_20030727/ai_n12583802

Dyke: I'll quit rather than bow to No 10; Government deal: sack

Sunday Herald, The, Jul 27, 2003 by James Cusick

GREG Dyke, the director-general of the BBC, has told senior executives at the corporation that he will resign rather than see its independence compromised by the government's "revenge" for the BBC's questioning of its line on Iraq.

Dyke's hardline stance, understood to have the full backing of BBC chairman Gavyn Davies, comes after the culture secretary, Tessa Jowell, stated last week that the outcome of the Hutton inquiry into the death of Dr David Kelly could influence the government's review of the BBC's charter, due to begin in September.

The Sunday Herald has also learned that Number 10 told the corporation that if it sacked Andrew Gilligan (the reporter who claimed the threat from Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction was deliberately exaggerated) it would cease its attacks. The BBC refused.

The Sunday Herald has also been told that a deal to call off the war between Number 10 and the BBC was agreed earlier this month during David Frost's annual summer party in Chelsea, attended by both BBC senior executives and government ministers. Both sides are said to have agreed "enough was enough".

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1. Snarky grammarian message deleted. n/t

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2. I appreciate the pointers

Its the only way one learns. Thanks.

Don

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3. A media organization that did not fold to gov't pressure?

What a novel idea. Wish the US had something like that instead of the current crop of KKKorporate $tooge$