Our impartial BBC? You're having a laugh!

Here's a corker I came across on Climate Audit but which first appeared in the comments somewhere on Bishop Hill's site:

4894 is interesting. From Alex Kirby at the BBC to Phil Jones if I have read it correctly, in the run up to COP-10 [the Copenhagen conference] in 2004:

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Yes, glad you stopped this — I was sent it too, and decided to spike it without more ado as pure stream-of-consciousness rubbish. I can well understand your unhappiness at our running the other piece. But we are constantly being savaged by the loonies [er, that's you!] for not giving them any coverage at all, especially as you say with the COP in the offing, and being the objective impartial (ho ho) BBC that we are, there is an expectation in some quarters that we will every now and then let them say something. I hope though that the weight of our coverage makes it clear that we think they are talking through their hats. (My emphasis)

Do bear that one in mind when next you receive your demand for TV licence money!

Gradually this monstrously huge release of e-mails is being trawled through by the blog-hounds and more and more embarrassing - well, they would be embarrasing to most people if not the likes of the insufferably smug Alex Kirby - gaffes and admissions are coming to light.  And remember, the scamp who nicked them is still holding back several thousand more!  Give him a knighthood!

 

Comments

[A K Haart]

"Do bear that one in mind when next you receive your demand for TV licence money!"

I shall. I often wonder how many just refuse to pay.

[Neil E Dunne]

From Wikipedia about Alex Kirby --- "He has no formal scientific training."
DUH

[David Duff]

Alexander Chancellor, I think, refused to pay but eventually gave in.

Quite so, Neil. And "Neil E Dunne" I like!