Jimmy Savile - Sexual Predator

VoG said:
And Newsnight has just apologised unreservedly on BBC 24 News, for the story that led to McAlpine being wrongly accused, sounds like its brown trousers time at the beeb.
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It will be interesting to see how much they get sued for.
 
Calabi said:
How do the BBC keep messing up, their like a bunch of amateurs.
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They get complaints about NOT airing a programme where they aren't 100% sure the victim is correct*.
They then get a similar lead about another high profile person, and remembering the mauling the got from the press and politicians a few weeks earlier, this time DO go ahead (but not naming anyone).
They get mauled again.

I think it's partly they act on the last lot of complaints and let that affect their future actions too much.

I don't think it helps that AFAIK the BBC basically lets the journelists investigate without clearing it with staff at a much higher level, a system that is intended to basically ensure that they are free to cover any story, without any calls of them being told to only report in a certain way (IE most of the papers have a desired stance on many story types, and will instruct staff to follow it, or can/will instruct them to ignore stories that go against it, or against the good of the papers owners), but that also means the DG of the BBC for example doesn't know what's going on as it doesn't reach him (and given how much news output the BBC does, would be impractical for him to know every investigation or story they were going to run ahead of time).



*Having previously been in fairly serious trouble for not making 110% of the facts on another case...
 
The Beeb is clearly in a state of panic. They're running around like a bunch of headless chickens, desperate to manage some semblance of damage control while blaming everyone but themselves for their own cover-ups and mistakes.

Even the BBC director-general has described this latest debacle as 'a bad crisis of trust.' It's just outrageous:

The BBC has already launched three investigations into the Savile scandal, including one into why Newsnight shelved an investigation into some of the claims against Savile last December.

The broadcaster said on Friday it was suspending all co-productions with the Bureau of Investigative Journalism, with which it worked on the program into the children's home abuse.

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Mr Messham has offered his "sincere and humble" apologies to Mr McAlpine, who served under former premier Margaret Thatcher, and suggested that it was the police who wrongly identified the politician as his alleged abuser.

The British press said the BBC was in "chaos", and one commentator for The Guardian newspaper wrote: "The latest error could not be much more serious for the BBC's journalistic reputation."

British prime minister David Cameron warned against a "witch-hunt" following the Savile scandal, after he was ambushed during a live television interview with a list of names of alleged paedophiles compiled from Internet gossip.
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(Source).
 
Evangelion said:
The Beeb is clearly in a state of panic. They're running around like a bunch of headless chickens, desperate to manage some semblance of damage control while blaming everyone but themselves for their own cover-ups and mistakes.
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The only thing more bizarre than the mess at the BBC is the amount of pleasure you seem to take from the fact they've messed up. Especially as you don't actually receive core BBC services anyway. Why do you care so much about the actions of a public broadcaster in a country on the other side of the world to whom your tax dollars make nil contribution?
 
Evangelion said:
The Beeb is clearly in a state of panic. They're running around like a bunch of headless chickens, desperate to manage some semblance of damage control while blaming everyone but themselves for their own cover-ups and mistakes.
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Nice rhetoric and jingoism but fairly unfair and unfounded don't you think?

Infact I'd suggest it's verging on rant territory TBH.
 
And now BBC Director General George Entwistle has resigned.

In a statement given outside New Broadcasting House, Mr Entwistle said: "I have decided that the honourable thing to do is to step down."

Earlier, Mr Entwistle said the Newsnight report, which wrongly implicated ex-senior Tory Lord McAlpine should never have been broadcast.

Mr Entwistle took up the post of director general on 17 September.

In his statement, he said: "In the light of the fact that the director general is also the editor-in-chief and ultimately responsible for all content, and in the light of the unacceptable journalistic standards of the Newsnight film broadcast on Friday 2 November, I have decided that the honourable thing to do is to step down from the post of director general."
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Taken from BBC News

I can't say i'm surprised, i saw a truly amazing interview on BBC 24 News all of an hour ago, & the beebs own reporter was doing such a hatchet job on Entwhistle, i figured there's no way heads aren't going to roll over this.
 
I don't know enough about Entwistle's career to say if he would have been a good DG in the long term, but it's pretty obvious that he has had to resign to take the sting out of the attacks on the BBC by Dacre and Murdoch (men who would never dream of resigning for the failings of their organisations). The producer and editor who ran the McAlpine piece should have taken the fall.
 
Ok, we need to get a grip as a country, this is turning into a unjust witch hunt, I'm sorry but it is.... There's no denying Saville has a lot to answer for if it can be proved.... I'm not seeing a lot of proof at the moment, just a lot of hearsay....

We appear to be going on a crazy crusade where one person can just point a finger at someone without credible proof and whatever they say will be accepted and it's getting disturbing.

Retards like Phillip Schofield spending "3 minutes" on Google and presenting the prime minister witha peado list is just disturbing. We need to back up and remember who we are.
 
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I still can't believe this is still dragging on, this entire debacle is like a dog with a friggin bone, this countries' media need to let go.
 
time to disband the BBC, I don't want to fund their incompetence any longer.

mind you This takes focus of the real issue doesn't it?

WHO THE DIRTY BUGGERS ACTUALLY ARE!
 
NeilFawcett said:
Nice rhetoric and jingoism but fairly unfair and unfounded don't you think?
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What's unfair and unfounded about it? Seems like a reasonable description of the circumstances to me.

The BBC is in meltdown. They've just falsely accused a peer of paedophilia without any evidence whatsoever! That's unfair and unfounded.

Meanwhile, Entwhistle has clearly resigned in an attempt to take the heat off the rest of the organisation. I don't know what kind of government watchdog polices the BBC, but whatever it is, it should demand that the axe is swung wide and deep.
 
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