Red Eyes
Arrived at Heathrow about 6 a.m. this morning on British Air, yet had no idea there was any sort of strike taking place. We had no idea of the turmoil until my very fine brother-in-law picked us up to drive us to Peterborough. Turns out we were lucky -- thousands of people were stranded and some are now having to spend a second night at the airport, the BBC said. The only problem we had was with luggage - a delay of about 45 minutes.

I've started reading in on the whole David Kelly mess. It does indeed seem like lots of mistakes were made by lots of people. Wondering why the BBC only went with one source on the story and why (if true) the anonymous source couldn't even realize he was the lone source for the story. Had the reporter not only extrapolated some things for himself, but also not bothered to make clear with Kelly what he could use as background or how Kelly would be identified as the source? And after the governement started demanding to know if Kelly was the source, did BBC reporter Andrew Gilligan have any contact with Kelly to clear up the relationship? Also, whistleblower laws, anyone? More on this in coming days, I'm sure.

Last thought for tonight. It's from the transcript of the foreign affairs committee's grilling of Kelly last week, as appeared in The Daily Telegraph on Saturday:

Mr Anderson: What lessons have you learned from this episode?

Dr Kelly: Never to talk to a journalist again, I think.

- posted by Amy @ 7/20/2003 05:23:00 PM