Now the BBC is Carter-Rucked!

Two months ago the blogosphere and Twitter was awash with justifably righteous outrage when super libel law firm Carter-Ruck, acting on behalf of their petro-chemical company client Trafigura, manged to threaten to overturn hundreds of years of Parliamentary transparency.

Now, the BBC has caved into pressure and removed from their website the Newsnight article which explained the events leading up to the exposure of the super libel against the Guardian as exposed by Parliamentary proceedings. The New Statement carries the story on their website.

Thanks to Iain Dale for supplying the video of the offending Newsnight clip, which I embed below, and urge other bloggers to do likewise. As some may know, my day job is in lobbying for the archives sector and when people like Trafigura, aided by Carter-Ruck, try to airbrush uncomfortable matters of record, frightening visions of Orwell's 1984 and the Ministry of Truth come to mind.