Some absolutely brilliant points in the Meirion Jones thread - by posters who have read his evidence. Conflicting with the media coverage by people who don't seem to have done so.

My take since reading the transcript.

Jones and MWT desperately wanted the Savile claims to be true (for whatever reasons - we don't know enough to judge motive).

Peter Rippon saw this and felt - objectively - that the claims might have been false. He decided the investigation should be dropped. Whether or not it should have been continued before a decision on transmission was made was entirely up to him and his judgement.

What I find deeply troubling is that, after reading the transcripts, certain sections of the media are still condemning him (and Entwistle, Patten and others not connected at all)... it reeks of dodgy intentions.

Pollard should have said clearly, in capital letters, and repeated... Peter Rippon was not to blame.