Britain - BBC Apologizes for Valerie Plame

Scott reports on an apology from the BBC over their reporting on the Valerie Plame affair.

If so, then my header and intro is fully justified as well. After all, when I complained to the BBC over its repeated and unqualified assertion that a crime had been committed in the Valerie Plame kerfuffle, I got this as a reply:

Our apologies for being so slow to reply to your message. We take your point that it has yet to be established whether the leak was indeed a federal offence. In recent stories, we have been more careful with our wording. We have, for instance, said: "The wilful disclosure of a covert CIA agent's name can be a federal offence."

See? They admitted to dragging their feet, and admitted to deceiving their readers. Right?

Now why do you suppose the BBC were so slow to apologize? Are they that busy apologizing to that many people who complain about BBC bias?

Did the BBC post an apology on line? Not likely. So, no one but Scott and his readers will know that the BBC misled its readers.
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