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Will NSTP keep to its threat to sue the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) now that the latter had maintained that its report on the controversy surrounding the departure of Group Editor Brendan Pereira is “entirely legitimate.”

The Star yesterday emailed BBC London and obtained the following updates:

“We are aware of the New Straits Times’ feelings regarding our report on their editor and his planned departure. We feel it was entirely legitimate to report on the controversy surrounding the departure of their aforementioned editor.

“We are currently considering our formal response to the New Straits Times,” a BBC spokesperson said yesterday in an e-mail response from London.

Contrary to the NSTP's claim that the BBC had made no attempt to contact the NSTP to check the “veracity of his story”, Jonathan Kent, the KL-based BBC correspondent who wrote the report, said Pereira had told the BBC that his departure had been agreed with the paper two weeks before the publication of the controversial article.

Meanwhile, Rocky's Bru talked about the rumblings in Jalan Riong that linked to the CEO's gag order, and the clear and present climate of fear that now envelopes newsrooms in Bangsar.

Syed Feisal, it's your call or someone will call for you.

Maruah at stake -- the country's, not yours!