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There are so many agendas at work. The newspapers are laying into the BBC with venom. It's more to do with Leveson than people realise. Leveson held 97 sittings over eight months and interviewed, in public, 650 witnesses, most of them from Grub Street; we saw nearly all of it on the BBC News channel.

Dame Janet Smith is a former judge, but her inquiry into Savile culture at the BBC is not a judicial inquiry, and there's no suggestion her proceedings will be televised.

As Twitter newcomer @LordPatten (not Chris Patten) says, "Hong Kong was a lot easier than this..."  The real Chris apparently offered to sit alongside George Entwistle in front of the Culture Committtee yesterday. I suspect he'll try to make that a full convention for any forthcoming sessions.