Dyke: Blair tried to gag BBC war reports - [Sunday Herald]
TONY Blair took the unprecedented step of writing a letter to the BBC to try to force it to soften its coverage of the war in Iraq, according to Greg Dyke, the former director-general of the corporation.
The row about the government’s reasons for going to war will re- surface as a result of the publication – in today’s Observer – of extracts from Dyke’s new autobiography, Inside Story.