BBC criticised over Savile report

19 December 2012 Last updated at 07:16 ET

Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play.

The findings of an inquiry into Newsnight's shelving of a report on sexual abuse by Jimmy Savile are being published

An inquiry into Newsnight's shelving of a report into sexual abuse by Jimmy Savile has criticised BBC management but found no evidence of a cover-up.

It was not done to protect tribute shows to the late DJ and presenter, as some had claimed, said the report.

A separate report is critical of a Newsnight report which led to Lord McAlpine being wrongly implicated in child abuse allegations.

The editor and deputy editor of Newsnight are to be replaced.

The Pollard Review was set up by the BBC to see if there were management "failings" over the investigation, dropped by Newsnight in December 2011.

Tribute programmes to the late DJ and presenter were later aired on BBC TV over Christmas and New Year.

The report by Sky's former head of news Nick Pollard said: ""The decision to drop the original investigation was flawed and the way it was taken was wrong but I believe it was done in good faith.

"It was not done to protect the Savile tribute programmes or for any improper reason."

Responding to the report in an email to staff, BBC acting director general Tim Davie said he was "pleased to say that the review found no evidence of any improper pressure to prevent the broadcast of the Newsnight investigation or to protect the Jimmy Savile tribute programmes".

But he accepted that the "report exposed clear failings in some of our systems, the way we work together and make decisions".

Anda sedang membaca artikel tentang

BBC criticised over Savile report

Dengan url

http://beritaberbagiceria.blogspot.com/2012/12/bbc-criticised-over-savile-report.html

Berita Ceria