Tangled

According to the bit they let you read for free in The Times, Peter Rippon, stepped-aside Editor of Newsnight, told his bosses that the infamous blog of explanation contained errors the day after it was published.

It was first published just after 5pm on October 2nd, and in it, Peter attempted to explain why he took the decision not to run a story into allegations of sex abuse by Jimmy Savile. It was "corrected" on 22 October - ahead of the Panorama report into the Newsnight-story-that-wasn't. Up until today, the narrative has been that it was reporter Liz MacKean and producer Meirion Jones who emailed both Rippon and his superior Steve Mitchell about mistakes on 3rd October.

In the intervening three weeks, Lord Patten and Editorial Policy chief David Jordan relied on the the first blog to make the case for the defence of Newsnight. By 21st October, Lord Patten was trying to claim he had insisted on the corrections being made.