BBC attack a man when he is down- surprise!.

[charmbrights]

Radio 4's "Profile" programme of Andrew Mitchell was broadcast on Saturday 26 October 2013 and was advertised on the BBC web site as:

Last year, long-standing Conservative MP Andrew Mitchell was forced to resign his new job as Chief Whip after being accused of calling police officers guarding the Downing Street gates "plebs." The so-called 'Plebgate' saga has hit the headlines once again this week after a committee of MPs summoned three senior police officers to explain their inquiry into the incident. While last year Andrew Mitchell was the focus of controversy, the Rugby and Cambridge-educated disciplinarian is now eliciting sympathy in many quarters. Becky Milligan looks at the life of a man caught in the eye of a political storm.

I heard the repeat at 17:40 today (Sunday 27th). It was pure character assassination by insinuation and omission. Just one example - every time the word "whip" was used a sound effect of a physical whip was played.

[steevo]

The so-called 'Plebgate' saga has hit the headlines once again...

Like the headlines before angled and packaged by them. Make it their 'news' and call it once again the news.

[charmbrights]

Credit where credit is due. It was refreshing last night that the BBC admitted that this has become more of a "policegate" than a "plebgate" on the BBC News At Ten, following two policemen admitting to a Commons Select Committee that they had not intended to mislead the committee a week earlier when they "used terminological inexactitudes" (UK parliamentary language for "lied") in their replies.