THE BBC, perhaps unusually these days, wants to broadcast a story that the government believes would be damaging to national security. According to the Daily Telegraph, which was briefed by a government source, the broadcaster wants to identify a “spy” working overseas. That would involve “a risk to people’s lives”, the source added.
In response, the BBC insists it “would not pursue any story unless it was felt it was overwhelmingly in the public interest to do so and fully in line
