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Originally Posted by colin25
I doubt we will ever get the whole truth.
The statement by the DG of the BBC, that he didn't ask about what the investigation was about, seems implausable. At the very least, he should lose his job. Not sure he is fit to run the BBC, if he doesn't even have the capacity to ask the "right" questions.
They were commissioning tribute programmes, and he never ever thought to ask what the inquiry was about? Bah
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He wasn't Director General at the time of the Newsnight airing. He was in charge of programming, or entertainment programming, at the time as is alleged to have been told from the News Director that the investigation may impact upon his plays to air tribute shows. There isn't any evidence that he then tried to influence the investigation at all.
This whole thing has become far too focused on the BBC alone. We're talking all the time about the decision to drop a Newsnight investigation and little about the fact that Saville abused several girls. The entire story has been hijacked for the purposes of pushing against the BBC.