Pact is simply putting forward a case that fair access to the market would increase the range and diversity available to BBC Online.
The United States has taken a different approach by simply putting forward the candidate it deemed best for the World Bank's top job and letting him be judged on his merits.
A BBC spokesman said: "Andrew himself made it clear on air that he had not been intending to express a personal opinion, or that of the BBC, but was simply putting forward an argument from President Barroso who, as European Commission president, has an integral insight within the debate.
The hypothesis just put forward has consequences.
On this view, Plato's intention was simply to put forward difficulties for the theory of forms that he himself did not, at least at the time he wrote the dialogue, see a way to resolve.
"It seems to me there are no longer any doubts that it is simply unacceptable to put forward any pre-conditions for joining forces in the fight against terror," Lavrov told reporters after meeting his Lebanese counterpart, Gebran Bassil, in Moscow.
It can be stubbornly resistant to it and that is certainly commendable when an idea looks like it has been put forward simply because its creator was bored at work, but sometimes protecting tradition with stuck-in-the-mud attitudes is detrimental to the sport.
