Letter: Media must take its Hutton medicine FOREIGN Edition
Davies and Dyke were probably correct to resign, but Gilligan deserved no worse than a rap over the knuckles for a bad slip under pressure. The plea that the BBC is mainly good is pathetic: we are all judged on our rare mistakes; what use would a surgeon be who did 99 per cent of an operation brilli...
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| Published in | Independent (London, England : 1986) |
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| Format | Newspaper Article |
| Language | English |
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London (UK)
Independent Digital News & Media
07.02.2004
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| Summary: | Davies and Dyke were probably correct to resign, but Gilligan deserved no worse than a rap over the knuckles for a bad slip under pressure. The plea that the BBC is mainly good is pathetic: we are all judged on our rare mistakes; what use would a surgeon be who did 99 per cent of an operation brilliantly if a blunder on the remaining 1 per cent killed his patient? |
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| ISSN: | 0951-9467 |