So no one knew what was going on and no one can be held responsible.
Senior figures from the BBC are “very likely” to be called before MPs to explain whether changes were made in the wake of the Jimmy Savile scandal. Jesse Norman said the culture select committee, which he chairs, “needed to be satisfied the culture has changed”. The report into cases of sexual abuse by the former BBC presenter is set to criticise the corporation, according to a leaked draft. BBC chief Lord Hall said lessons would be learned from a “dark chapter”.
Wonder could that happen today inside the BBC? Questions on a post card.
As soon as you see “lessons will be learned” you know everyone will get off the hook.
My thoughts and prayers are with the good Lord, in hope he may discover a slightly less insincere template platitude next time the BBC screws up.
I thought the purpose of this website was to ensure there was no “next time”.
‘Tell it often enough’ can work not just for the BBC.
At the time they were “investigating” Savile’s activities, they were also naming part of Broadcasting House after John Peel
Lesson to be learned: don’t get caught next time
A report that uncovers or describes wrongdoing in an organisation in detail but then says no-one is to blame is all-too-familiar these days and is a classic establishment cover-up. Did we expect any better? I find it odd that Dame Janet feels the need to protect managers who, along with their booze cupboards, must have been long retired..oh hang on isn’t there a fellow called Yentob still around?
I do hope that Winteringbottom will take note of this whilst negotiating an increase in the BBC licence fee. Or will he, or any member the the Government, stand up and say ‘This has gone too far’.
Surely none still nurse faint hopes or delusions on the effectiveness of Whittingdale, this government or the media as a whole in restraining or re-modelling the BBC? The stale and irrelevant ‘Litvinenko love-in’ currently swamping all channels – and keeping Jimmy just nicely down-graded – is a classic of its kind, as fine an example of obfuscation as any could need, and very obviously encouraged from all quarters. Whilst in the real world the ex-KGB double agent meets his just deserts – as James Bond’s victims the world over have done for the past 50 years and more without requiring apologies and feigned outrage from the Home Secretary, even fictionally, the real scandal of Savile softly reduces by dilution, a snippet here, a lesson learned there….
This goes way beyond disgrace.
Similar to the way certain sections of the media and some MPs blew the red door fiasco out of proportion
It allows them to indulge in their whataboutery when discussing New Years Eve
I feel uncomfortable with the fashion to hammer Saville, He has not been found guilty in a court of law, neither has Cyril Smith nor Lord Janner. By going along with this principle of assuming guilt by rumour it could be a dangerous route whereby should the EU really reach it’s full potential, we are already primed to believe that courts are not needed to determine innocence or guilt. Political persecution of patriots will be so much easier.
https://opendemocracy.net/ourbeeb/meirion-jones/bbc-savile-and-investigations
Interesting analysis.
However, given the stellar performance of the ‘Trust’, any entity preceded by the letters BBC, such as an ‘investigations unit’, seems pretty much a rebranded ‘the BBC thinks the BBC got it about right’ unit.