Interesting piece on the Today program about the Independant’s reporting of Tom Kelly’s remarks about Dr David Kelly. The Guardian journalist, Michael White, was saying that he would never have reported a “grey” conversation with explosive stuff like that in it. Yeah right!

Bernerd Ingham made an interesting point when he said that he always assumed that if he said anything interesting to a journalist it might get reported, even if it was agreed to be off the record. That struck me a sensible position to hold and I’m amazed that current senior Downing Street people don’t think the same way. It strikes me as downright stupid to say anything to a journalist that you don’t want them to report…

Michael White’s most useful contribution to the whole thing was his comment at the end when he pointed out that the public doesn’t trust the media or the Government at the moment and that this is damaging for public life. Of course this would have sounded better if he hadn’t spent the last 5 minutes arguing with Bernerd Inghram rather than discussing the topic!