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Originally Posted by Maggy J
I'm still surprised Murdoch's hounds never got a whiff considering it was so apparently 'known' about.
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That's just it. I can't imagine for a second that any of the Murdoch papers or the Daily Mail (who love to have a go at the Beeb) would have held back if they'd had even a whiff of a story.
While I think the BBC have a lot to answer for (and if, as it seems, Panorama are going after the DG, then it appears they are going in the right direction), I don't think the rot ends at the BBC. I think other organisations (potentially a lot) were also involved.
Think about that. When the BBC allowed Russell Brand to swear at Andrew Sachs, and when Blue Peter was found to have been a little dodgy when awarding prizes, those papers were complaining about the BBC for weeks (in fact, the Russell Brand thing was front page news on the Daily Mail for over a week). Now, there is a chance that staff (or ex staff) at the BBC have been involved in something actually illegal, and we have relatively few stories.