Choreography

There's potentially a lot of paperwork to read for the media correspondents currently locked in at the BBC ahead of today's midday news conference.

They'll certainly have The Pollard Report (into why Newsnight didn't broadcast a story about Jimmy Savile being a paedophile).  It may, or may not, have appendices which are long/redacted/skimpy. The press won't be happy that all  material is not released. The US lobby-against-Mark-Thompson will probably find it hasn't addressed the issue of the DG's "knowledge" from February 2012 til his departure from the BBC. It's seems likely that the BBC will have spent more than £1 million on an investigation which will say Auntie took too long to correct a blog.

They'll probably have the full MacQuarrie report (into why Newsnight did broadcast a report which led to a legal pay-out to Lord MacAlpine).  The summary version only produced lines of action for acting DG Tim Davie - and led to the "stepping aside" of Helen Boaden and Stephen Mitchell, plus the arrival of Karen O'Connor as acting Editor of Newsnight.

Will they have The Mosey Disciplinary findings ? This process was set up to deal with what Lord Patten has called the "shoddy journalism" that led to the MacAlpine settlement.

They will have BBC Trust Editorial Standards recommendations. The Crusted Rolls of Governance have a secret clause which says "there can be no proper media event without a report from us". Thus Entwistle commissioned MacQuarrie and Pollard; so the Trust commissioned themselves, and will share their ineffable wisdom about what should happen next in News - to MAKE SURE IT NEVER HAPPENS AGAIN !