Mark Thompson duly delivered his lecture on newspaper economics to the Reuters Institute of Journalism gathering in Oxford last night. No mention of his current issues with his former employers; a sad shift to US spelling noted in "skeptical" and "merchandizing".
There will have been former BBC chums in the audience - but other former colleagues are lining up against him. BBC Trustees including Diane Coyle, Richard Ayre, David Liddiment and Alison Hastings have vouchsafed that they had no sight of deals for Byford and Baylay, causing so much interest ahead of Monday's Public Accounts Committee. One can feel a squeeze coming on operatives, rather than Trustees - does informing The Trust Unit (under Nicholas Kroll) equate directly with informing The Trust?
Meanwhile Lucy Adams has done one of those "oh, that memo.." confessions to her part in the construction of Project Silver. And those nasty MPs want Tony Hall (who won't be there on Monday) to give back £24k he got to boost his BBC pension, when he left Auntie for the Royal Opera House - presumably signed off by Greg Dyke, who beat him to the DG job that time.
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