Formal

Buffeted - and not in the deep-fried-breaded-mushrooms with prosecco way. George Entwistle, and press chief Paul Mylrea, looked really uncomfortable in front of the odd stretched-skin trampoline set in New Broadcasting House yesterday, grilled by the media press.

And, instead of a firm hand on process, we have daily change. The let's-all-talk-this-through-with-BBC-Scotland-director-Ken McQuarrie process of looking at Newsnight's editorial processes has been rather hastily dropped, in favour of an inquiry, chaired by an external, independent, unnamed person, and reporting to Dame Fiona Reynolds, non-executive, who will apparently chair the BBC Executive for consideration of this report. Here's an idea - when producer Meirion Jones makes the film for Panorama he wanted to make for Newsnight, let's have captions indicating the material he had in the can when it was dropped, and captions indicating the new stuff - then we can all make our own call on whether or not it could and should have run last December.

Meanwhile, well done to HIGNIFY for a steady seven minutes on the issue - starts at 09.55 if you want to catch-up on iPlayer.

By the way, Newsnight made its final broadcast from Television Centre last night - and ended the show with a glimpse of the new HD set at Broadcasting House.